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Ear to the glass: Living with loss

By Lindsay Berra
ESPN The Magazine

Thursday, November 5, 2009

In this year's NHL landscape, the injury bug looks like Mothra, and it's been a particular scourge to superstars. Five of last year's top 15 point scorers are currently sidelined with injuries (Evgeni Malkin, Alex Ovechkin, Ilya Kovalchuk, Marc Savard and Daniel Sedin). With so much talent taken off the ice, we wanted to examine the ripple effect of injuries, so we surveyed the teams affected to ask what's missing and how they make up for it on the ice, on the chalkboard and beyond. On-ic ...

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