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Speculation: Injury Prone Players

How many entries should a player have on your team before you trade him?

  • 3

    Votes: 1 50.0%

  • 4

    Votes: 1 50.0%

  • 5

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • 6

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    2
sampollock

sampollock

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Okay here we go
Some claim that if a player is so-called injury prone you should not sign him or trade for him. Does that mean then you should trade a guy if you have him on your team with numerous injuries, even though you drafted him?
This is a good place to debate this hot topic.
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How much of our perception of "Injury prone" is voodoo? Sure, the sheer frequency of injuries is a red flag of... something... but not necessarily that an athlete's body is more fragile. There could be many reasons he's getting hurt more often – situational awareness, skating style, bad luck, youthful frame – and once those issues are resolved, he could have a long, healthy career.

The problem is we have absolutely no clue from our vantage points if a player really is injury prone, or simply prone to bad luck. Markov was injury prone... until he wasn't.

Does Guhle slicing his tendon make him injury prone? I'd say that's bad luck. Others may say he lacks the awareness to avoid injury. Same with Dach, who – for now – seems to be avoiding the random injuries that derailed him. IMO, those are two young players still learning how to use their bodies properly.

On the other hand, Price's chronic knee issue and Subban's chronic back problem, sadly, made them injury prone.
 
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Meh...if that injury prone player is one of our best players I'm keeping him.

I remember back in the days when fans wanted to trade Markov. He was arguably our best player. He was just too valuable to give up.
 
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Lshap said:
How much of our perception of "Injury prone" is voodoo? Sure, the sheer frequency of injuries is a red flag of... something... but not necessarily that an athlete's body is more fragile. There could be many reasons he's getting hurt more often – situational awareness, skating style, bad luck, youthful frame – and once those issues are resolved, he could have a long, healthy career.

The problem is we have absolutely no clue from our vantage points if a player really is injury prone, or simply prone to bad luck. Markov was injury prone... until he wasn't.

Does Guhle slicing his tendon make him injury prone? I'd say that's bad luck. Others may say he lacks the awareness to avoid injury. Same with Dach, who – for now – seems to be avoiding the random injuries that derailed him. IMO, those are two young players still learning how to use their bodies properly.

On the other hand, Price's chronic knee issue and Subban's chronic back problem, sadly, made them injury prone.
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Exactly

'Injury prone' *doesn't exist*, and it's infuriating a person can corolate a person having 1 injury being a fractured bone from blocking a shot and then getting another injury like a mild concussion from a hit and be like 'see! Always hurt! Injury prone!'

By definition every single human being on EARTH is 'injury prone' prone to potential injuries
You could snap your achilles tendon just walking out your door on the way to work

The reality is 'an injury itself can be injury prone'
You can have a busted shoulder you always have to watch out for, a wonky knee you always have to be careful with
An previous INJURY can be injury prone

But the notion that you're just born one day and a coin gets flipped to dictate 'whether you are injury prone or not injury prone' is just a silly and ridiculous concept, it's complete nonsense
Sorry to any offended lol
 
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Redux91 said:
But the notion that you're just born one day and a coin gets flipped to dictate 'whether you are injury prone or not injury prone' is just a silly and ridiculous concept, it's complete nonsense
Sorry to any offended lol
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Genetics has a part to play. Some people are born with more "fragile" bodies. Look at a guy like Ovechkin. Build like a truck, physical game early in his career but never got injured.
Any other player with a similar body type would have long retired most likely.
Obvious that is only part of it. Ability to protect yourself is also a big part.
 
Redux91 said:
Exactly

'Injury prone' *doesn't exist*, and it's infuriating a person can corolate a person having 1 injury being a fractured bone from blocking a shot and then getting another injury like a mild concussion from a hit and be like 'see! Always hurt! Injury prone!'

By definition every single human being on EARTH is 'injury prone' prone to potential injuries
You could snap your achilles tendon just walking out your door on the way to work

The reality is 'an injury itself can be injury prone'
You can have a busted shoulder you always have to watch out for, a wonky knee you always have to be careful with
An previous INJURY can be injury prone

But the notion that you're just born one day and a coin gets flipped to dictate 'whether you are injury prone or not injury prone' is just a silly and ridiculous concept, it's complete nonsense
Sorry to any offended lol
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that is my point. fans "mark" a guy but this term and sit back and just carve the guy to know end

the fans that through this term out there, don't even come on here and back their statement. says alot
 
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WeThreeKings said:
No, silly because it doesn't make any sense.

Let's say I put 3.

What if one of the injury was something like... getting hit by a car?
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it is not silly
because posters say "inj prone" get rid of him, whoever that is.
but they only say this for a player they don't like anyway.
just me making a point is all, I get yours too.
again I am talking of hockey inj's is all
 
Injury prone is getting hurt repeatedly on the same limb on routine plays. Like dislocating your right shoulder once a year by simply getting hit.

Or a goalie who has a knee problem that never actually heals and keeps them out.

Skating over a rut in the ice, causing a weird fall to cut yourself is not injury prone - even if it happens to a player that has been previously injured for other reasons.

It's important that this distinction is well understood. Freak accidents and bad luck is not injury prone.
 
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Andy said:
Injury prone is getting hurt repeatedly on the same limb on routine plays. Like dislocating your right shoulder once a year by simply getting hit.

Or a goalie who has a knee problem that never actually heals and keeps them out.

Skating over a rut in the ice, causing a weird fall to cut yourself is not injury prone - even if it happens to a player that has been previously injured for other reasons.

It's important that this distinction is well understood. Freak accidents and bad luck is not injury prone.
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smart thinking ....
 
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