One of the weirdly anticipated steps of the offseason for any team that has exited the playoff race is the releasing of the injury report. After months of vague descriptions of injuries and timelines, teams usually announce exactly was ailing their players. That “lower-body” injury that had a third-line center on a day-to-day basis for a month-and-a-half, or yeah, he was playing without a left kneecap. The “upper-body” injury that kept your power-play specialist out for Game 1? Yup, you guessed it, a missing eyeball.
On Wednesday, during his requiem for the season, general manager Julien BriseBois detailed some of the injuries the Lightning were dealing with at the end of the year.