Just when things couldn’t look any uglier for the New York Islanders, mired and looking helpless in a five-game losing streak, comes bad news affecting their future: Devon Toews joins Calvin de Haan in the “shoulder surgery: out for the season” category.
That news was reported by Arthur Staple of Newsday, who’d previously reported de Haan’s injury would put him out until a point in the NHL playoffs that the team is unlikely to reach without him.
It also follows another high-impact injury, as first-line winger and Art Ross (!