Dobber’s Band-Aid Boys
Dobber Sports
2007-03-01
The Band-Aid Boys List – updated!
You’ve heard me talk about ’em. You’ve often wondered if I just pull them out of a hat (or perhaps, a certain body oriface). 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 12 or more.
Definition of “Trainee”: The player has shown signs that he could become Certified. He is probably going to miss six or seven games in the coming season and has some risk of suffering an injury that will cost him 12 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.
President, CEO – Rick DiPietro
Vice President, head operations – Peter Mueller
Band-Aid Boy Hall of Fame
Mario Lemieux
Alexei Zhamnov
Eric Daze
Ziggy Palffy
Eric Lindros
Dominik Hasek
Peter Forsberg
Pavel Bure
(Note – this is strictly for guidance in fantasy hockey. This list is not meant to belittle the seriousness of a player’s injury problems, nor is it meant to punish a player for ‘playing hard’ and being a ‘warrior’ on the ice. It is what it is – a list of players who are at greater risk of missing games. “How” they miss those games matters little in fantasy hockey. In other words, this list is meant to be used as a tool to help your run your fantasy team, not to insult anyone)
| Certified Band-Aid Boys | ||
| Daniel Alfredsson | Guillaume Latendresse | |
| Nik Antropov | Vincent Lecavalier | |
| Mikael Backlund | Kari Lehtonen | |
| Sean Bergenheim | Kris Letang | |
| Marc-Andre Bergeron | Matthew Lombardi | |
| Todd Bertuzzi | Joffrey Lupul | |
| Kevin Bieksa | Andrew MacDonald | |
| Dave Bolland | Evgeni Malkin | |
| David Booth | Ryan Malone | |
| Pierre-Marc Bouchard | Andrei Markov | |
| Rene Bourque | Paul Martin | |
| Justin Braun | ||
| Daniel Briere | Andrej Meszaros | |
| Michael Cammalleri | Milan Michalek | |
| Daniel Carcillo | David Moss | |
| Daniel Cleary | Peter Mueller | |
| Ryan Clowe | Nikita Nikitin | |
| Sidney Crosby | Ryan Nugent-Hopkins | |
| Pavel Datsyuk | Joni Pitkanen | |
| Steve Downie | Kyle Quincey | |
| Tobias Enstrom | Peter Regin | |
| Martin Erat | Derek Roy | |
| Mike Fisher | Kris Russell | |
| Johan Franzen | Tuomo Ruutu | |
| Marian Gaborik | Sami Salo | |
| Mikael Samuelsson | ||
| Nathan Gerbe | Andrej Sekera | |
| Brian Gionta | Alexander Semin | |
| Marcel Goc | Patrick Sharp | |
| Sergei Gonchar | James Sheppard | |
| Mike Green | Jack Skille | |
| Jaroslav Halak | Mike Smith | |
| Taylor Hall | Vladimir Sobotka | |
| Martin Hanzal | Sheldon Souray | |
| Martin Havlat | Jason Spezza | |
| Ales Hemsky | Alexander Steen | |
| Chris Higgins | Jeff Skinner | |
| Shawn Horcoff | Jose Theodore | |
| Nathan Horton | Scott Upshall | |
| Marian Hossa | James van Riemsdyk | |
| David Jones | Semyon Varlamov | |
| Jacob Josefson | Lubomir Visnovsky | |
| Tyler Kennedy | Ryan Whitney | |
| Ryan Kesler | Justin Williams | |
| James Wisniewski | ||
| Chuck Kobasew | Marek Zidlicky | |
| Mikko Koivu | ||
| Dmitri Kulikov | Josh Harding | |
| Ville Leino | Niklas Backstrom |
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| Players | Team | |
|---|---|---|
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|---|---|---|
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|---|---|---|
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| 21.9 | JJ PETERKA ALEXANDER KERFOOT MICHAEL CARCONE | |
| 15.7 | KAILER YAMAMOTO DYLAN GUENTHER LOGAN COOLEY | |
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