2024/2025 Around the League

[Balthazar]

Come on. One of Salo's injuries was getting bitten by a snake.

He did miss a few games because of a venomous snake bite back when he played for the Sens.

 

[Gumballhead]

Come on. One of Salo's injuries was getting bitten by a snake.

Was it big and fat and on a wanted poster in Quebec?!

https://x.com/i/web/status/1857473804278301061

Usually a 5 year old in a 30 year old's body is problematic, but not here.

 

[Pokecheque]

Come on. One of Salo's injuries was getting bitten by a snake.

Still wasn’t just sitting on the bench and getting struck by a puck, which you’d think would happen more often than it does, but sure enough it happened to him.

I don’t think the off-ice stuff counts because then you’d have to count Brendan Witt/Ossi Vaananen (hit by car), Byron Dafoe (slipped on parking lot ice), and Joe Sakic (snowblower).

 

[Hennessy]

Still wasn’t just sitting on the bench and getting struck by a puck, which you’d think would happen more often than it does, but sure enough it happened to him.

I don’t think the off-ice stuff counts because then you’d have to count Brendan Witt/Ossi Vaananen (hit by car), Byron Dafoe (slipped on parking lot ice), and Joe Sakic (snowblower).

Fine. Take away the snake. Guy still missed over 200 games due to incessant injuries. Leclaire had nothing on Salo in that regard.

 

[Balthazar]

I don’t think the off-ice stuff counts because then you’d have to count Brendan Witt/Ossi Vaananen (hit by car), Byron Dafoe (slipped on parking lot ice), and Joe Sakic (snowblower).

Getting bit by a venomous snake is higher than these on the unlucky scale.

Fine. Take away the snake. Guy still missed over 200 games due to incessant injuries. Leclaire had nothing on Salo in that regard.

Salo also torn a muscle in his ass while taking a slapshot.

 

[Pokecheque]

I should say I don’t really have a dog in this fight. I just remember the jokes about Leclaire back in the day, it was absolutely cartoonish how many different ways that guy got hurt. And I’d argue even with the many, MANY injuries, Salo still managed nearly 900 NHL games.