Both TJ Oshie and Burakovsky missed more games than the entire top 9 of the leafs last season. Your ignorance kinda makes the point you're trying to disprove....
Was the Leafs Good Health last season overhyped?
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Both TJ Oshie and Burakovsky missed more games than the entire top 9 of the leafs last season. Your ignorance kinda makes the point you're trying to disprove....
If you want to count the Robidas island players and the 40 games that 13th forward josh leivo missed to make yourself feel better go ahead, but that is not an injury of significance...
Maplebeasts
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Weren't you one of the ring leaders in the Leafs look bad thread after another short sample size? Your hypocrisy is showing.
You just changed the parameters of the argument to make the Leafs 2016-17 season the healthiest in NHL history, And you are calling me ignorant?
For the 100th time, no one is counting the people on Robidas island. The Leafs were not the healthiest with people on LTIR.
Question: were the Leafs the luckiest team last season and the "Stars were Aligned" given they were dead last in a skills competition?
What are you talking about?? I said what team had 10 or less games missed in their top 9 due to injury in a season. You said Washington and I showed you two top nine players on Washington who missed more than the entire top 9 for Toronto...
Luckiest team in NHL history is what you appeared to change the argument. Fact they were not the healthiest team even last season.
Whatever Man. Man games lost isn't the best way of looking at the significance of injuries unless you feel losing Matthews to injury is the same as losing Matt Martin. If you want to pretend that Josh leivo's 40 games tips the scales to 2nd worst when he only played 13 of the 40 games he was healthy, go for it.
aufheben
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Sounds pretty damn healthy to me. Seems like hair-splitting if they weren't statistically the worst.
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Thats a very interesting argument to go with. Are you sure you want to go with that?
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It's always good when your team escapes injury problems, but short of broken bones and concussions, I wonder if investing in sports medicine or whatever pro teams do actually has tangible results. Certainly, the Leafs have a lot of money to spend in any department they choose.
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This is kind of awkward for the OP..
Even IF they weren't the luckiest team with injuries last year, I'm pretty sure they should feel good about it. Of the top of my head I can think of Sean Couturier alone being injured twice as much man games as the Leafs TOP9 last year.
"Nylander not TOP9" comment almost made me burst out a good laugh.
Even IF they weren't the luckiest team with injuries last year, I'm pretty sure they should feel good about it. Of the top of my head I can think of Sean Couturier alone being injured twice as much man games as the Leafs TOP9 last year.
"Nylander not TOP9" comment almost made me burst out a good laugh.
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aufheben
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People have done this with the Blackhawks many times. And like...every playoff series ever...
God that's nothing you should have seen when the Rangers rallied aganst the Penguins in 2014
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Also had more than 10 man-games lost in their top 9 last season. I really don't know what you were trying to say with this.
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Can we just have a stickied thread proclaiming the leafs the best ever at everything so their fans stop whining about every perceived injustice?
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I'll never understand why being healthy is held against a team. Anyways, the Leafs have the depth up front, maybe more than any other team, to deal with injuries. That's a team strength.
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I don't think anyone is holding it against the Leafs that they were super healthy last year. The issue in this thread is that OP made an obvious revenge thread (not sure I'd call it that, but whatever) in response to an argument that happened over the summer. This is trying to claim the argument that the stars aligned for the Leafs last year based on their health is wrong because they've won like 3 games without Matthews this year. Not only is the argument awful, it's also being littered with strawman nonsense like "People are saying the Leafs were the healthiest team in NHL history" and just lies by the OP.
So basically, OP made a dumb thread based on a dumb argument in the offseason and is continuing to say dumb things in the dumb thread. Nothing really to see here.
Edit: Also, something that doesn't add up is the claim that the Leafs "weren't even the healthiest team last year". At least from the stats I'm looking at, Toronto is listed to be at like 140 man games lost last year. Where are these man games lost coming from? They had 15 skaters play in more than 72 games last year, they had 33 man games lost among those 15 skaters. I feel like those man games lost stat has to be including Lupul, I don't know how they can get those 100+ man games lost unless they're including a guy who missed an entire season. I don't think the guys who played in less games than that played in less games due to injuries, either, because it's all depth players or rentals for guys who played in less than 72 games.
They probably had more man games lost last year than the Capitals, but I'm really not sure it's by much. Washington only had 50 man games lost last year (most of which were Oshie and Burakovsky), and I'm really not sure Toronto is going to be much higher than that.
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Shout out to the Leafs sports science division they don’t get enough credit for keeping the players healthy. Injuries are going to happen regardless but they do a great job of mitigating them.
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he can do what ever he wants too.. you dont have to respond to him and try to tell him what to do. your not his dad.
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