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Originally Posted by PeteMoss
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Oh I have no doubt there are some athletes who are injury prone. But the amount of times that phrase is thrown around is absurd. Hockey is a contact sport and a great deal of injuries are pure luck. Sure conditioning, flexibility, muscle mass, all can make a difference. Sure some players play a more physical style and block more shots and can be more likely to get injured than players who don't. Someone COULD have a chronic shoulder issue (although we see that less these days with improved surgeries). But in the end anyone can get hit by a shot, anybody can have someone fall on their leg accidentally, anybody can get pushed awkwardly into the boards, any goalie have people pushed into them, fall on them, etc. The majority of injuries in hockey are chance or accidental IMO. Thus pointing to someone's injury history and then extrapolating that into the future is an extremely questionable endeavor. IMO it's definitely questionable when talking about goalies who often get injured due to players falling on them or pushing them into the net with force.
Anyways, just a pet peeve of mine. See it all the time where fans call a player injury prone but then you look at his injury history it's all accidental injuries that could've happened to anybody. It's a phrase that has some meaning but now fans apply it way too frequently and the phrase starts to become questionable when it's mis-applied so often.