After a few long-term injuries, the Devils never managed to really get going and that hurt us. How much better would we have been given league-average health. We look into it this week.
The Devils were hurt by injury last year. All the way in November, I wrote an article about how dependent we were on our top 5 forwards, top 2 defenders, and Cory Schneider. At the time, our top 5 scored a higher percent of our points than any other team, Adam Larsson and Andy Greene had been put in more difficult situations than anyone in the league, and Schneider .