Somehow, many of the elite teams in the league have managed over the past few months without injured stars.

Manager Charlton will monitor the progress and fitness of his three injured stars before deciding to add them to the panel at a later date.

All Rivers has to do is remember how injured stars and salary-cap woes undermined him in Orlando.

Why not crow about how tough the injured stars on the Steelers were in their loss?

He said he preferred to look at the situation as a break for the players who have replaced the injured stars.

Without their injured stars, Scott admitted the team had no margin of error.

"Our guys will be back next spring," Brenly said of his injured stars.

They did it without several injured stars, including Sanders and Blades.

Mario Lemieux, the injured star of the Penguins, must have been awfully tempted to play tonight for the first time this season.

He is an injured star who has chosen to play for his team.