Training Camp is not even a week old, yet the Boston Bruins have been hit hard by injuries. First, Seth Griffith suffered an MCL sprain in the pre-season opener against the Devils and will miss 3-4 weeks. A few days later, GM Don Sweeney announced that defenseman Dennis Seidenberg will have surgery for a herniated disc in his back and will miss approximately eight weeks.
The injury couldn’t have come at a worse time for Seidenberg, who was looking to have a bounce-back season in 2015-16. The German blue-liner tallied 17 points (3 goals, 14 assists) and played in all 82 games in 2014-15 — a year after he suffered a knee injury in December that ended his 2013-14 season — but his uncharacteristic struggles in his own end led to one of his worst seasons in Black and Gold.