Can an NHL team be too healthy?
Perhaps.
While injuries can devastate a team and completely derail a season (witness the Flyers right now and the Oilers all season), they can also strengthen a team, teaching players to step up and form a cohesive bond around the healthy players.
Injuries teach the remaining players to play through adversity, forcing teams to play above their previously-thought limitations.
The Rangers have not had to deal with the adversity of injuries very much the past two seasons. The Rangers have lost just 61 man-games to injury this year, the lowest in the NHL . Just to frame how low that number is, the Oilers have lost 457 man-games to injury this year, the highest in the NHL. And last year, the Rangers lost just 31 man-games to injury .
One could say the only thing ...
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Article written by Steven Ovadia
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