So many hockey injuries this year

[Shaner]

Is it just me, or is there more injuries this preseason than ever before? I don't remember ever seeing so many injuries during the preseason.

It seems like every team has a few people with minor injuries. Nothing serious, but people are twisting ankles, pulling muscles, tweaking things here and there, etc.

It must be the long absence from the game. A lot of these guys probably didn't work out very hard during the lock out.

[Carnage]

I'm sure injuries in pre-season are common as people get back into game shape.

Gotta also remember that due to hockey being back after 1.5 years there's a media focus that wouldn't have normally been there in previous pre-seasons.

In the past you'd barely hear anything about these minor injuries during pre-seasons. But they were still there.