It had been two months since Petr Mrazek’s season was put on hold after his thumb was broken just a few minutes into the first period of a January 30th game against the Dallas Stars.
It was an unfortunate bit of friendly-fire as Max McCormick had crashed hard into the net after going down to try and prevent a 2-on-1. That pass never made it across and Mrazek’s thumb took the full force of McCormick.
The real shame too was that Mrazek had been playing some tremendous hockey. In his three starts, he had picked up two shutouts and posted a 0.