St. Louis Blues forward Vladimir Tarasenko is headed to the LTIR as he requires shoulder surgery. Timeline is for re-evaluation in five months. What will this injury mean for his long-term future?
By Adam Proteau, Featurd
You should understand, NHL teams don’t expressly plan for any one particular superstar to suffer a long-term injury over the course of any single season. It would be inviting bad karma up the front steps and right into a team’s president’s lounge, for one thing; for another, it would make for an insulting insinuation about the durability of a franchise’s elite players.