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Originally Posted by Locke
I like Matthews and I think the way he's structured his contracts? That guy has a long, long career ahead of him.
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I think he’s meaning just in general Ovi is a more durable individual; I’m sure Mathews is poised to have a long career, Crosby has and continues to have a long career for example. Ovi has had a much more healthy and consistent career especially when you compare games played it’s easy to see just how durable Ovi has been comparatively. Through his first 14 seasons he played less than 78 games only twice with one being a complete 48 games in the lockout shortened 12-13 season, the other being a 72 game 09-10 season.
With Covid it gets a bit wonky for Auston but he played a full 82 games in his rookie year and has basically not played a full season otherwise with 74 games being the high water and only 3 of 6 seasons not counting the Covid year in which he played at least 70 games.
With Crosby he had 4 pretty full seasons in his first 5 with a 53 game 07-08 sandwiched in the middle but then the concussion problems hit; its actually pretty incredible looking at Crosby’s DB when you consider everything he’s gone through.