It’s a little late, but never fear: Five Thoughts for Friday are here!
1. Injuries
Hard not to talk about this with this team right now, but Brady Tkachuk’s ankle injury brings this teams injury luck down to negative-four out of ten. Jean-Gabriel Pageau was going to be the team’s second-line centre, and then he hurt himself at training camp. Ryan Dzingel has been battling a nagging injury. Mark Stone’s missed a couple morning skates with an undisclosed issue. Alex Formenton and Cody Ceci are out, which is hard in particular for Formenton who is missing out on his shot to show what he can do before being sent back to juniors.