Remember last year's Columbus Blue Jackets? It kind of feels like the Lightning are headed in that direction with all of their injury issues.
Last season, the Columbus Blue Jackets suffered from injury after injury. They had a good team, they had a lot of talent. They just couldn't get healthy and put it together. The team had looked better late in the season as they started to return some of their talent to the lineup, but it was too little too late for them to get back into the playoff hunt. This season it feels like the Tampa Bay Lightning are in much the same position with all of the injuries they've struggled through, especially among the forwards.