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Thursday, 01 March 2007 05:22

 

 

Connolly

 

 

You've heard me talk about 'em. You've often wondered if I just pull them out of a hat (or perhaps, a certain oriface in my body). Nope. I get 'em off this list. A DobberHockey staple since 2005.

 

 

Definition of "Certified": The player is virtually guaranteed to miss games and is a significant risk to miss 15 or more.

 

Definition of "Trainee": The player has shown signs that he could become Certified. He is probably going to miss five or six games in the coming season and has some risk of suffering an injury that will cost him 15 or more.

 

The rule of thumb - if you ever manage to acquire, accidentally or otherwise - a member of the executive committee or a Certified Band-Aid Boy, get them off your team immediately. Although they may have fantasy value, they are probably not worth the headache (no pun intended) if you can acquire a player of equal value who is not on this list. If you acquire any Certified Band-Aid Boy for the price of them as if they play 65 games, then that works - just don't overpay and expect a full season out of them.

 

If you acquire a Band-Aid Boy Trainee, then keeping this player should be okay...but too many of them on your team could (will?) be trouble. It is possible to go from "certified" back to "trainee", or from "trainee" right off of this list. But poolies need to see some stability in games played - often one healthy season isn't enough to clean the slate.

 

 

Dobber's Band-Aid

 

 

Executive

President, CEO - Rick DiPietro
Vice President, headcase operations - David Booth
Vice President, knee operations - Martin Havlat
Secretary of Groins - Marian Gaborik
Band-Aid Treasurer - Sheldon Souray



Band-Aid Boy Hall of Fame

 

Mario Lemieux

Alexei Zhamnov

Eric Daze

Ziggy Palffy

Eric Lindros

Dominik Hasek

Peter Forsberg

 

Certified Band-Aid Boys

 

Jason Arnott
Adrian Aucoin
Todd Bertuzzi
Kevin Bieksa
Pierre-Marc Bouchard
Rene Bourque
Derrick Brassard
Brent Burns
Dan Cleary
Carlo Colaiacovo
Erik Cole
Tim Connolly
Patrick Eaves
Patrik Elias
Martin Erat
Eric Fehr
Johan Franzen
Simon Gagne
Paul Gaustad
Jochen Hecht
Milan Hejduk
Ales Hemsky
Tomas Holmstrom
Marian Hossa
David Jones
Ed Jovanovski
Nikolai Khabibulin
Rostislav Klesla
Mike Komisarek
Nik Kronwall
Pascal Leclaire
David Legwand
Jere Lehtinen
Kari Lehtonen
Jordan Leopold
Joffrey Lupul
Ryan Malone
Peter Mueller
Owen Nolan
Rostislav Olesz
Steve Ott
Joni Pitkanen
Brian Pothier
Tuomo Ruutu
Sami Salo
Mikael Samuelsson
Mathieu Schneider
Alexander Semin
Jason Spezza
Marco Sturm
Marek Svatos
Max Talbot
Raffi Torres
Darcy Tucker
Scott Upshall
Scott Walker
Kyle Wellwood
Justin Williams
James Wisniewski

 

 

Band-Aid Boy Trainees

 

 

Daniel Alfredsson
Nik Antropov
Sean Avery
Cam Barker
Sean Bergenheim
Patrice Bergeron
David Bolland
Daniel Briere
Michael Cammalleri
Ryane Clowe
Mike Comrie
Matt Cullen
Mike Fisher
Tomas Fleischmann
Marc-Andre Fleury
Brian Gionta
Sergei Gonchar
Jonas Gustavsson
Scott Hartnell
Cody Hodgson
Jack Johnson
Erik Johnson
Phil Kessel
Mike Knuble
Chuck Kobasew
Mikko Koivu
Saku Koivu
Ales Kotalik
David Krejci
Chris Kunitz
Daymond Langkow
Guillaume Latendresse
Andrei Markov
Brian McCabe
Andy McDonald
Brenden Morrow
Chris Neil
Frans Nielsen
T.J. Oshie
Petr Prucha
Wade Redden
Brad Richards
Sergei Samsonov
Marc Savard
Teemu Selanne
Ryan Shannon
Mike Smith
Ryan Smyth
Jaroslav Spacek
Paul Stastny
Cory Stillman
Steve Sullivan
Eric Tangradi
Alex Tanguay
Thomas Vanek
Semyon Varlamov
Lubomir Visnovsky
Doug Weight
Stephen Weiss
Todd White
Henrik Zetterberg
Nikolai Zherdev
Dainius Zubrus

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gfunkb7 said:

gfunkb7
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I believe Tim Connolly belongs in the executives as well, as let's say, the intern-Monica Lewinsky smilies/shocked.gif. Could be a nice add-on. The only year I don't own him (last year), he doesn't get hurt. He's got skills, but he's a freaking sissy! Wouldn't [draft] him even with a ten foot [hockey stick].
 
August 19, 2010
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Ian said:

August 16, 2010
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mike hess said:

mhess89450
few left to pick
Longer list than I remember seeing historically? I think you just have to limit who you pick and hope they only miss 5-10 games, that is why you have IR slots and a waiver wire. Otherwise, you are eliminating a lot of talent from from the pool on draft day.
 
August 16, 2010
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Dobber said:

Dobber
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Grant - if I bet 20 bucks on them missing 10 games this year, then they're on the list certified. If I bet 20 bucks on them missing 5 games this year, then they're trainees. I would put my money where my mouth is for every one of these guys.

Not basing on last year's injuries - in every case they are multiple-year problems. I base it on future risk. To say I just looked at last year's injury list kind of offends me. Green was hurt last year, was he on there? D.Sedin? C'mon. Sounds like you own a lot of players on this list...
 
August 16, 2010
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Dobber said:

Dobber
AL - good point
I re-worded that blurb. Now it makes more sense.
 
August 16, 2010
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mick said:

hawkdog
ryan smith
how is he not certified, he is guaranteed to miss 15 games? in my books anyway smilies/smiley.gif
just his style of play bound to get hacked in front of the net
 
August 16, 2010
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AL said:

grindin griers
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Of the certified BAB which ones would be worthwhile? I know you mentioned to get them off your team immediately, but c'mon ... Spezza, Semin, Hossa, Franzen???
 
August 16, 2010
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Grant Goossens said:

goossens5
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Didnt read the top, but i agree with it now. Add Gaborik onto the band aids tho, never drafting that guy ever
 
August 16, 2010
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Grant Goossens said:

goossens5
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So you put basically anyone who had an injury last year or the year prior on the list? Even if they were totally not there fault. Some of the players on there hardly ever miss games due to major circumstances. Although I do agree with some I think the list is exxagerated to a point where every fantasy valued player is a band aid
 
August 16, 2010
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Alex McDonald said:

September 06, 2009
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