It's been over a year in coming, but two weekends ago, my good hockey friend from school and I finally got around to catching a game together, or in this case, a pair of games together. He's a long-suffering Leafs fan, so we were looking forward to a hard contested battle between our NHL teams' offensively gifted AHL teams. It was also supposed to be my early birthday present. It was going to be great.
Then the injury bug hit.
In rapid succession, down went Jacob de la Rose, Connor Crisp, Nikita Scherbak and Markus Eisenschmid.