I'll try not to belabor the point, but a lot of people get hurt from plays that others don't.
Kopitar crashed into the boards in 2011. Missed the playoffs. It's the only time I remember seeing him crash into the boards like that, and it's one of his only injuries. How many guys get up and just feel wobbly?
Vilardi has a health issue he has since mitigated. Calling him Mr. Glass because of a dirty play, abnormal location of injury or not, is making a silly leap.
It woukd be like calling Willie Mitchell Mr. Glass if he got another concussion from a dirty hit despite having a helmet that minimizes concussions.
He didn't crash into the boards, but it was an awkward play. Difference is Kopitar rarely ever missed time before or after while Vilardi basically missed something like 1 1/2 seasons after being drafted, then put up 63 and 47 games the past two seasons before finally appearing to beat the injury bug this year, only to potentially be out for the rest of the season and the playoffs.
If Mr. Glass seems "mean", then injury-prone is the description at a minimum. If you want to call it bad luck, okay, but it doesn't change the fact that it keeps happening to him. We all hope it is a Justin Williams type thing for him where it actually is bad luck and he can go on to routinely play a full compliment of games, but Vilardi's track record so far is that of an injury-prone player.
The point I'm trying to make is that the logic of Blake moving Vilardi over injury concerns doesn't really make sense when Blake is also trading assets for Arvidsson who is every bit as injury prone as people are saying Vilardi is.
I'm not saying he should have been moved for PLD rather than Vilardi.
Arvidsson had only played more than 60 games in a season if you count playoff games the three seasons before Blake traded for him.
It's not the same though. Blake traded a draft pick at a time when the Kings had a ton of prospects and picks with Arvidsson having a contract in place. It was also at a time when the Kings hadn't made the playoffs in years.
Vilardi was up for a new contract and Blake finally just got a "full" Vilardi season of 63 games. The best he got out of him since drafting him six years earlier was 63 games, and Blake was there for the missed season(s) and the 2022 failure. He wanted to be out of the Gabe Vilardi business so he moved him for a guy that was supposed to score a similar amount and be in the lineup for 82 games or close to it. The main problem is that the guy he traded for might be in the lineup for 82 or close to it, but that doesn't mean he is valuable.
I love Vilardi's game, but I can also understand why Blake wouldn't want to deal with it anymore. The problem wasn't trading him necessarily, it was who they got for him.