Players getting injured is always a shame, but it is particularly sad when they are having career-type years. The St. Louis Blues were getting that from Carl Gunnarsson in the brief times he has played, but injuries have repeatedly derailed him.
Gunnarsson started off 2018-19 somewhat slowly, but so did the entire team. While he was not doing much offensively, he was actually one of the team’s steadier defenders. Maybe that says something about how everyone else was playing, but Gunnarsson was still pretty good.
Then, his first injury came. Gunnarsson did not play from mid-November until January 3.