There will likely never be consensus on exactly when the Detroit Red Wings’ injury reports morphed from being regularly depressing to flat out comical.
However, the fact that they are now exactly that seems beyond dispute.
In what is sure to go down as the most frustrating season in recent Hockeytown memory, the Red Wings 2013-14 season is a picture of ill-health nearly too vivid to take in at first glance.
With 313 man-games lost to injury this season (according to mangameslost.com), the Detroit Red Wings have earned the dubious distinction of being the second-most injured team in 2013-14 behind the Pittsburgh Penguins.
That these two teams could be battling for the top two spots in the Eastern Conference was certainly conceivable at the start of the season—that they would rank among the league’s most injured teams wasn’t exactly what people had in mind.
While the Penguins (413 man-games lost to injury so far) aren’t likely to be eclipsed as the most-injured team of the 2013-14 season, they have managed to remain atop league standings and ha ...
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Detroit Red Wings’ Injury Situation Has Become So Bad, It’s Funny
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