When the season began there was such a logjam at forward you would have been forgiven if you forgot about Oscar Lindberg.
Brandon Pirri was scoring goals (plural) a game in the preseason, Jimmy Vesey was beginning his early-season success and Pavel Buchnevich was doing Buchnevich things. Oh, Lindberg was hurt to boot.
I think one of the biggest surprises this year has been Lindberg’s 55 games played. At one point this year we speculated whether or not Lindberg was the right man for the job on the fourth line — now it’s hard to imagine it without him.