tsherkin wrote:
So the guys we're specifically worried about are primarily going to be Quickley, Poeltl and Ingram. And RJ.
Ingram is probably going to play around 60 games, based on the past half-decade. We can generally assume that'll be the case, unless we're especially unlucky.
Barrett's hit or miss; he's played under 60 games 3 times (including the past 2 seasons), but played 70+ for three straight years prior to the trade season. But we can generally assume 65+ with him.
Poeltl's played under 60 for 2 years in a row, but was reasonably healthy from 18-23. So it isn't out of sorts to expect maybe 68 games or so.
Quickley played 33 games this year, the first time in his career he played less than 64 games. We can probably expect 70+ from him next year, unless we're unlucky.
In other words, there's a pretty good chance we'll have notably MORE heath next season than we enjoyed this year... and should remind ourselves that some of those missed games came from shutting it down in the latter third of the season, as opposed to absent health.
Scottie also played 60 and 65 games the last 2 seasons, and yeah, your entire starting lineup potentially missing 15-25 games per player is pretty bad. I would be pretty shocked if we had worse health, but we don't exactly have a team of ironmen.
What's the point here? I don't see the reasoning for a comparison to Charlotte.
It was brought up in the video the person referenced, Lowe put us in the same tier as CHA and I don't think it's as outlandish as some people like to believe.
