During Wednesday night’s games, the Montreal Canadiens and St. John’s IceCaps suffered numerous injuries to their forward corps. For the Canadiens it was Paul Byron and Brendan Gallagher who were felled. For the IceCaps Nikita Scherbak was potentially lost to injury.
These names are added to an already populous list of injured forwards that includes Alex Galchenyuk (knee), David Desharnais (knee), Andrew Shaw (concussion), Charles Hudon (ankle), Max Friberg (flu), and Connor Crisp.
Scherbak was hit blindside to the head, but returned towards the end of the game. His status in unknown. As of Thursday morning this left the Canadiens with 11 healthy forwards and the IceCaps with 10 or 11 healthy forwards, depending on Scherbak’s condition.