- Jul 10, 2007
- 2,494
- 2,570
Again, when the average goalie doesn’t play 40-50% of the season, it’s possible to play a ton of games and still be on IR in the pressbox for a lot of the season. Games played is pretty useless for determining if a goalie is injured. Teams have gone away from having goalies play 60 games, because they statistically weren’t doing as well in the playoffs.
You can Google the dates, injury, and his name.
Gibson was behind Andersen his first 3 seasons. Since then, he’s played in 52, 60, 58, 51, 35, 56, and 53 games. Identify from that his injury seasons? This is my point, GP doesn’t identify injuries in starting goaltenders unless they’re fairly catastrophic. Tweaking your groin repeatedly is still injury prone, you don’t have to miss catastrophic amounts of time, and I’m not going to bother pulling articles for you. There’s a groan from every poster whenever he leaves the ice holding his groin again, and it hasn’t been 6 years since that’s happened.
I asked you to show your work to support the claim that "He’s been on the injury report 8 times in the last 3 seasons, 17 times since 2017. That’s an above average number for goaltenders."
What is the basis for that claim? What is average and how are you calculating it?
You also didn't address my point that the numbers you're referring to - a random list of dates that is not official and doesn't account for how many days he was on the "list" - is not a reliable set of data.