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Why? He had completely fluky injuries and has always come back in good shape, in a reasonable amount of time. There's really no indication that Booth is injury prone.
Umm... Booth has missed games almost every single season for the past decade. In the NHL he's played an 82 game season once in his 6 full time seasons in the NHL. You don't have to have recurring injuries to be labeled injury-prone. A player is injury-prone if he constantly suffer injuries and is out a significant period of time which Booth does. As far as I can tell, since college, Booth has missed games due to three knee injuries, a neck injury, two concussions, two rib injuries, a groin injury, an ankle injury, an upper body injury, and another injury that I couldn't find more information on.And yet you're calling him injury-prone - because they might recurr - despite the fact that they've been one-offs and that there's no history of trouble like with Salo's groin. Maybe, I don't know, wait and see if it actually happens again before declaring him to be so? Many players could be called injury-prone by this same definition.
Essentially he's missed significant playing time due to injuries in every season except for his freshman year in college, his 82 game season, and his first season as pro. That's 3 out of 11 years he's been healthy. Labeling him as injury-prone is a fair assessment.
You can call it what you want, but a GM will move player for the reason that he can't manage to stay healthy.If you want to call Booth 'bad luck prone', go ahead and be my guest. Just don't expect a GM to move a player out for that reason