Kris Letang had a remarkably tough 2013-14 season. Instead of pushing for an Olympic roster spot with Canada and challenging for the Stanley Cup with the Pittsburgh Penguins, the 27-year-old spent a majority of the campaign dealing with serious injuries and ailments.
He was forced to miss almost the entire opening month of the season, appearing in his first contest on October 25 against the New York Islanders. By that point the Penguins were already nine games into the campaign, and most of the team's players were already locked into their regular routines.
The NHL season is a long one, but Letang never really got the chance to settle in, let alone learn coach Dan Bylsma's new system—one in which he wasn't the best fit, as noted by Ian Altenbaugh of Hockeysfuture.com:
While Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin were in Sochi, Russia, competing for gold medals, Letang suffered a stroke and subsequently missed 10 more weeks of action. In this instance the health of the player is the most important thing, but it was just another knock against what amounts to a wasted campaign.
To top it all off, Letan ...
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