Pete DeBoer spoke with this media this morning, revealing that the Sharks battled several injuries during their series with Edmonton.
The details of Joe Thornton's leg injury came to light: the 37 year old was skating on a torn MCL and ACL. Per Doug Wilson, Thornton will be undergoing surgery today.
Other injuries included a broken thumb suffered by Patrick Marleau near the end of the regular season and a broken foot on Tomas Hertl that occurred against Vancouver in April. Add to that what we already knew about Logan Couture's mouth injury and the end of the regular season and playoff performance starts to make a lot more sense.