The Tampa Bay Lighnting announced on Monday that Victor Hedman is going to miss four to six weeks after requiring surgery for a broken finger.
It’s a massive blow to the team, which loses an exceptional defenceman, and it will also severely damage the player’s chances of contending for the Norris Trophy as the NHL’s best defenceman.
That last item figured prominently in reports on the injury.
USA Today’s Jimmy Hascup mentioned Hedman as “a Norris Trophy candidate” and said that the improvements in the player’s game are one of the reasons the Lightning are expected to be contenders in the East. The Sporting News’ Sean Gentille lamented that Hedman’s Norris chances were probably already dead, despite his “progression over the last year or two.”
Bleacher Report’s own Timothy Rapp didn’t mention the award but did say that Hedman was “finally becoming the superstar the Lightning envisioned when they selected him No. 2 overall in the 2009 draft.”
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