A year or two from now when Nashville Predators fans look back on the 2021 season, they will instantly think of a pandemic. It hasn’t been just the COVID pandemic that significantly affected the divisions, the schedules, and the protocols this season, but the injury pandemic that has swept through the Predators roster this season. Not since the Stanley Cup run of 2017 has the team seen so many key players injured.
So which injury has had, or could have, the greatest impact on the 2021 season? What player returning from injury could make the biggest impact in this last stretch of the season?