Pbhatti00 Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 List examples of injury prone NHL Draft picks, or prospects, not playing in NHL that end up having successful NHL careers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Where's Wellwood Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 You mean, ones who were injured thoughout their careers and are now retired? Or come back and post here when players who are prospects now (like Juolevi, Nolan Patrick, etc) who are sick/injured end up having successful careers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pbhatti00 Posted July 15, 2020 Author Share Posted July 15, 2020 Picks who have injury issues before seeing NHL action, but still made the NHL as regulars. Juolevi hasn't done that, yet. Patrick is a good example. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkyard Dog Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 Ryan Murray though he's kind of still injury ridden. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WHL rocks Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 I love you alll Let's go game ON Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicklas Bo Hunter Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 Didn't Pasta have injury issues and that is why he fell so hard? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris12345 Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 Morgan Rielly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tre Mac Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 (edited) JJ Daigneault lol? That's his draft day pic and yes those are crutches. Edited July 15, 2020 by Tre Mac Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theo5789 Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 Off the top of my head, I believe Thomas Hickey is an example. Started off rough and had a respectable 450 game career. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostsof1915 Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 Sami Salo? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Down by the River Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 Martin Frk had concussion issues, was supposed to be a higher pick dropped to the second round, but somewhat recovered. Alex Galchenyuk barely had a junior career due to injuries. Virtanen missed a fair bit of his D+1 year and lots of people were worried about chronic shoulder problems. McDavid broke his hand in his D+1 year and then got hurt in his rookie year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil_314 Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 OP, that's a long list you're looking at. For awhile, Sid had a run of concussions. Lindros too, during/ after the time he got wrecked by Stevens. Most power forward/ sandpaper types also break down over the years after years of hard-earned success and battling against behemoth D-men. Sure hope guys like Quinn, Pete and J.T. can keep on keeping their heads up and have long and successful careers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoKnows Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 Boeser lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theo5789 Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 On 7/15/2020 at 11:29 AM, Phil_314 said: OP, that's a long list you're looking at. For awhile, Sid had a run of concussions. Lindros too, during/ after the time he got wrecked by Stevens. Most power forward/ sandpaper types also break down over the years after years of hard-earned success and battling against behemoth D-men. Sure hope guys like Quinn, Pete and J.T. can keep on keeping their heads up and have long and successful careers. I think the OP is specifically looking for players who were injury prone prior to playing in the NHL from my understanding. Clearly with Juolevi in mind, but I can't tell if the OP is trying to write off OJ or looking for positive examples. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil_314 Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 1 hour ago, theo5789 said: I think the OP is specifically looking for players who were injury prone prior to playing in the NHL from my understanding. Clearly with Juolevi in mind, but I can't tell if the OP is trying to write off OJ or looking for positive examples. Haha my reading comp level zero. Though the title wasn't exactly clear on that (missed the "not playing in NHL" part) Hope Kole Lind doesn't join that list, he was getting decked out pretty often this past season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theo5789 Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 6 minutes ago, Phil_314 said: Haha my reading comp level zero. Though the title wasn't exactly clear on that (missed the "not playing in NHL" part) Hope Kole Lind doesn't join that list, he was getting decked out pretty often this past season. Well if that were the case, then we would want Kole Lind to join the list and have a successful career despite being injury prone to start Although I'm not quite sure Lind is classified as injury prone as far as I can tell. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Colt 45s Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 On 7/15/2020 at 9:18 AM, Ghostsof1915 said: Sami Salo? Are we allowed to say Balls of Steel anymore? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HKSR Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 Unfortunately, not many professional hockey players are injury prone per se. Yes, they get injured, but consistently getting injured is what I suspect you mean by injury prone. I can think of guys that had major injuries before entering the NHL and doing just fine... it would be pretty difficult to figure out which players had a number of smaller injuries rather than one big one though. Svechnikov missed a big chunk of his draft year with a broken hand and surgery... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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