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Originally Posted by Poe969
It's just funny, people say well a full season of Gio, Wideman and Glencross will make up for whatever. There are no guarantees any of them will be healthy or that we won't suffer other injuries that hamper the team.
Don't count on injuries but expect that they'll happen, especially when the team plays the way they did last year. Giving 100% effort 100% of the time will take it's toll on the players and it'll catch up with them. They'll either get injured or they'll start to tune out the coach and abandon the system if it's too tough on them.
A healthy season of Glencross could be 30 goals but it's about as likely that he misses the same amount of time.
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Last year was highly extraordinary levels of injuries to our top 6F and top 4D. It's likely going to go back to ordinary levels this year.
1. Last year, 3 out of our top 10 missed 34 to 44 games
each. In the last 5 years, not even 1 player from Top 6F/Top 4D missed over 21 games (nevermind 34 to 44 games). This was extraordinary.
2. Plus another 4 more of our top 10 missed 14 to 19 games each. That only happened one other time in last 5 yrs (2011/2012). That too was out of the ordinary.
The combination of #1 and #2 in the same year is highly extraordinary. 7 out of the top 10 missed 14 games or more.
At least we got Bennett for our troubles, plus got to see so many young players come in.
But it is very, very unlikely that we see those levels of injuries again this year in our Top 6F and Top 4D.