Every year fantasy hockey managers enter their drafts, get partway through, and then are faced with a quandary: the next highest-ranked player on their draft list is a player known to miss a significant number of games each season.
The question of pass or draft becomes less about that player’s skill level and more about what level of confidence we can have that they’ll play anything close to a full season’s worth of games. I don’t have a hard and fixed rule around what to do with “injury-prone” players, but I do have some basic guidelines that I have constructed to keep my process consistent from year to year and player to player.