Remember Bemmer? Making the case for Emil Bemstrom’s return to the Blue Jackets lineup

Photo by Jason Mowry/Icon Sportswire via Getty ImagesThis was supposed to be the year that Blue Jackets’ winger, Emil Bemstrom, cemented himself as a full-time fixture in the lineup and potentially even an impact player.

Unfortunately, for the third time in as many years, his season has been derailed by injury. Bemstrom impressed in the preseason, made the team, and pretty much immediately suffered an oblique injury in practice that was estimated to sideline him for approximately 4 to 6 weeks.

It has now been 11 weeks since Emil was injured and he has yet to play a game with the Blue Jackets. Oblique injuries are notoriously tricky and can be difficult to overcome, but by all accounts…