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Chris Tanev
Not really. He continues to injured at the end of of the season/playoffs every year when his team needs him most.
Chris Tanev
yeah very serious neck injury nearly caused his retirement. Takes a season off, gets traded to Carolina, and plays the vast majority of the next 5 seasons between the Canes and Leafs.I seem to remember Gary Roberts having struggles with injury. He had a very good later-half of his career. He was never a point per game player, but even in Florida his numbers were decent.
I seem to remember Gary Roberts having struggles with injury. He had a very good later-half of his career. He was never a point per game player, but even in Florida his numbers were decent.
Question wasnt about playing full seasons afterwards but who recovered and had impressive seasons. You verified my point. He came back and was still one of the best.He retired at 30 because of injuries, came back and played until he was 43.
Honestly not sure I'd put Lemieux here. Yes, beating cancer and remaining a top player is fantastic but from that point on he only played 70 games twice.
Came here to post this. Not only did the guy seem to be hurt all the time, but it was always a different injury. Then he became iron man on the Kings. lolJustin Williams.
This is just the casual sport of smearing players.Not really. He continues to injured at the end of of the season/playoffs every year when his team needs him most.
Chris Tanev is certainly no ironman but was greatly overrated as an "injury prone" player when people started talking like he was made of glass with Vancouver. He did have a rough 3 season stretch between 2016-17 and 2018-19 missing 30-40 games a season, but I tended to notice people trashing him would look at his career NHL GP per season totals with anything missed as 'injuries' conveniently missing/ignoring that his first 3 pro seasons was split between NHL/AHL with barely an injury between them, if any.This is just the casual sport of smearing players.
He played 75 games last season and 19 playoff games with DAL. That's a great comeback.
That was my choice. Plenty of LA fans complained about his injury history when we signed him (IIRC he was recovering from something when we did), but the types of injuries always seemed unfortunate to me rather than repeated connected issues. So personally I wasn’t worried although I’m ever the optimist.Justin Williams.
He was the first guy that I thought of. He almost didn't make the NHL because of injuries in juniors. He was hurt a lot as a young player, and picked up a new problem nearly every year throughout his career. Despite that, he had about 14/18 years where he was healthy enough to have become one of the all timers.Maurice Richard
Chris Tanev is certainly no ironman but was greatly overrated as an "injury prone" player when people started talking like he was made of glass with Vancouver. He did have a rough 3 season stretch between 2016-17 and 2018-19 missing 30-40 games a season, but I tended to notice people trashing him would look at his career NHL GP per season totals with anything missed as 'injuries' conveniently missing/ignoring that his first 3 pro seasons was split between NHL/AHL with barely an injury between them, if any.
Overall through an ongoing 14 professional seasons aside from that 3 year bad stretch he's generally averaged about 70 games a season. Really little difference from say Travis Hamonic, who Vancouver/Calgary basically swapped but no one ever hyper focus on as being majorly injury prone.
Really it's just thing like this tends to happen when a player is exposed to the massive Toronto fanbase/media in trade rumours for a few seasons.
Don't forget that before the Flames traded for Adrian Aucoin, he was referred to as Augroin because of all his groin injuries.Mikael Backlund once they gave him the mesh.
Um, J Hughes is still VERY much considered injury prone. He's literally only played 1 season over 62 games in his 5 year career.How about Makar and J. Hughes?
Hopefully in ten years we can post guys like Puljujarvi and Slafkovsky into this thread.
One of my all-time favourite hockey memories is when Markov came back from the knee or ankle injury (forget which one) and scored the first 2 goals in a game against the NY Islanders, and the broadcast announcer said "it's 2 to nothing for Andrei Markov!"Guy in my avatar looked like he was done at one point
48 games played as a 30 years old
7 games played as a 31 years old
13 games played as a 32 years old
Missing 178 games in 3 seasons, at that age, makes the alarm bells go off big time.
But Markov came back in full force. The next four season, he missed a total of 2 games and was awesome offensively and defensively.
Then he played one final season at 37 tears old, where he missed 20 games. Some decline in his play was starting to show but he could have easily played another season in the NHL under the right circumstances
His situation isn't injury prone, it's the reason he left St. Louis.Tarasenko is a prime example. Multiple shoulder injuries and didn't play much for a few years. Has been healthy and playing well lately.