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Injuries A Problem For The Vancouver Canucks

03/23/2017 at 5:48pm EDT

from Jason Botchford of the Vancouver Province,

Chris Tanev hasn’t been healthy for more than five games this season.

Markus Granlund and Erik Gudbranson tore wrist ligaments before the National Hockey League season was two weeks old.

Anton Rodin got into three games before his season ended in surgery. Derek Dorsett only played a month. The Canucks were ravaged by mumps, flu viruses and food poisoning.

Poor Joseph Cramarossa. He was picked up off waivers at the start of the month. Ahead of him, he had the best opportunity to play in his career. Three weeks later, he’s hurt and out.

Nikolay Goldobin got into three games before catching one of the worst viruses of his life. He lost more than 15 pounds and missed more than two weeks.

Such is the story of the Vancouver Canucks. It was the same last season and many of the seasons before that. Even in their oft-cited run in 2011, the injuries were unrelenting, one after another.

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