Boone Jenner is congratulated after a shootout goal. (Rick Osentoski, USA TODAY Sports)

The Columbus Blue Jackets can’t seem to catch a break.

In fact, the problem is too many breaks.

The team announced Saturday that forward Boone Jenner will miss one to two months with a stress fracture in his back. It’s his second time on the injured list after he broke his finger during the preseason.

Heading into today’s game against the Chicago Blackhawks, the Blue Jackets have 202 man-games lost in injury this season.

The current OhioHEALTH injured list (yes, the Blue Jackets smartly have a sponsor) features Jenner, Scott Hartnell (broken finger), Artem Anisimov (torn triceps, earlier had concussion), Ryan Murray (lower body), Mark Letestu (abdominal surgery), Brian Gibbons (knee) and Nathan Horton, who has missed the entire season with a bad back.

Heart-and-soul player Brandon Dubinsky missed the season’s first two months after abdominal surgery and No. 1 goalie Sergei Bobrovsky had sat out eight games with a broken finger.

Bobrovsky has helped carry the team since his return and was instrumental in the Blue Jackets’ seven-game winning streak that ended Thursday with an overtime loss. Once considered a candidate for a high lottery pick, the Blue Jackets have pulled within seven points of a playoff spot, despite all of those injuries.

Heading into the season, the Blue Jackets were the NHL’s darlings because they had made the playoffs for the second time in franchise history and played competitively against the Pittsburgh Penguins in the first round.

Then in September, everyone worried whether Ryan Johansen’s training camp contract dispute might cause the team to have a slow start.

Those were the days. Now the worry is when the Blue Jackets’ morning news release includes the word “injury.”

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