The Sharks dealt with their own injury news yesterday when Joe Thornton was placed on injured reserve with knee swelling, but they aren’t the only ones confronting injury early on this season.
The Los Angeles Kings announced yesterday that Jonathan Quick was injured during practice and would be placed on injured reserve. Which would all be well and good, except —
Except the Kings were too close to the cap to call up goaltender Peter Budaj.
So they had to do something a little bit complicated.