Injury Report: 2024-2025 Injury thread | HF’s Longest Thread Just Got Longer

[Bill Peckerskull]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1851669607708340654

Had to lose Rosco and Wood to get Lehky and JD back

 

[henchman21]

FTR I don't have anything to really base this on, but I'd argue the teams you see out there that appear to be the "healthiest" are likely the ones with medical staffers who don't hesitate to pump liberal amounts of Toradol into the players to prop them up for another beating.

I feel like, if anything, the Avs don't generally like doing this. I can't say that for certain as I have no evidence but it's a possibility.

From what I have been told, the Avs are one of the teams that encourages it more than most. Which is why we see so many guys return within games. Then when they are checked out later, they end up out for a while.

The Avs are probably the most cautious team on two things... concussions and blood clots. When a player is actually out with a concussion (not mid game which they allow too many returns), they give a lot of leeway and time on their return. With blood clots, they kinda have to be with the altitude.

 

[henchman21]

This is the same for every team though, so that doesn't explain our injury record for the past 7-8 years. The Avs are constantly near the top, with perhaps the exception of the cup winning season.


Sure, like hitting black on roulette 10 times in a row

Something something bridge to sell you

I'm going to once again plug this site:

Injury history charts

Notes Cap Hit of Injured Players (CHIP) represents the per-game cap charge of a player missing a game through injury/...

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The CHIP, MGL, the net... whichever measurement you want to use, the Avs have a tendency to be near the top of the league. They average 65 more man games lost per year than the NHL average. Basically down one player from the average team each season. The last time they were better than average was 18/19. In the last 23 years, they have been less injured than average just 7 times. Only once, were they in the first quartile.

I think part is medical staff, part is style of play, and some of it is the types of players they target. They have never scoffed away from injury issues with targeting players. They are probably the team that cares the least about medical red flags... arguably, they target players with them as they feel they can get excess value from it. Ritchie, Barron, Kaut, and even guys like MacKinnon had injury/medical questions in their draft years.

 

[The Merchant]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1851615661472043194

 

[BobRossColton]

How about the man games lost in bednar's tenure compared to other coaches tenures?

 

[sethro109]

I called that shit as soon as it happened.

 

[Ceremony]

A real nice career year for Colton there for about, oh, three weeks.

 

[RoyIsALegend]

Have a good Christmas, Rosco. See you in the New Year.

 

[henchman21]

Is Parker Kelly 3C no longer speculation now?

 

[Mighty Makar]

I hate this f***en team.

 

[sethro109]

Is Parker Kelly 3C no longer speculation now?

Parker Kelly 1st line winger coming soon.

 

[sethro109]

 

[hockeyfish]

Parker Kelly 1st line winger coming soon.

Naw, 1st line center.

 

[AllAboutAvs]

1. Landy
2. Drouin
3. Nuke
4. Lehkonen
5. Colton (Center?)
6. Who else?

Yeah my post was misleading. I should have said 5 of our 8 starting Wingers AND our 3C. Wood is the other W.

 

[The Pwnerer]

Must be incredibly frustrating for the top guys. I feel for them. This team is cursed.

 

[S E P H]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1851669607708340654

Had to lose Rosco and Wood to get Lehky and JD back

Equivalent exchange.

 

[BobRossColton]

I called that shit as soon as it happened.

So 7-9 weeks..