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NHL man-games lost plus other invalid metrics and ‘expert’ analyses. Updates on weekends. In disassociation with @lw3h.bsky.social. “Incredible” - Bob Errey More stuff here: nhlinjuryviz.blogspot.com

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NHLInjuryViz @nhlinjuryviz.bsky.social · 1d

NHL injury summary through 25 October

Chart summarising NHL man-games lost per team and weighted by AAV, average TOI and WAR.

Top 3 (weighted by AAV): Florida, Buffalo, Vegas
Bottom 3: San Jose, Columbus, St. Louis

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NHLInjuryViz @nhlinjuryviz.bsky.social · 15h

Screenshot-unfriendly example of the net injury chart ($-weighted), i.e. game-by-game injury "gap" between team and opponent

Trellis of column bar charts showing game-by-game net injury measure for each team when weighted by AAV.

NHLInjuryViz @nhlinjuryviz.bsky.social · 15h

Example injury "stack" for the Atlantic division

Stacked bar chart showing weighted injury measures (by WAR, AAV and ATOI) for the Atlantic division.

NHLInjuryViz @nhlinjuryviz.bsky.social · 15h

Most (not quite all) interactive charts for 25/26 are now up and running on the site. Updated through 25 October as it stands and usually weekly from now on. Link in bio.

Example MGL plot for the Kraken here

Plot of games missed to injury/illness by the 25/26 Seattle Kraken through 25 October.

Evans: 9
Gaudreau: 5
Kakko: 9
Marchment: 1
McCann: 4

NHLInjuryViz @nhlinjuryviz.bsky.social · 16h

Impressive work by the Sabres to have had 11 different players miss at least a game to injury/illness through their first nine games

Plot of games missed to injury/illness by the 25/26 Buffalo Sabres.

Ellis: 1
Luukkonen: 7
Bryson: 4
Kesselring: 9
Power: 1
Samuelsson: 2
Benson: 3
Danforth: 5
Greenway: 9
Kozak: 1
Norris: 8

NHLInjuryViz @nhlinjuryviz.bsky.social · 21h

RBA now helpfully defining his own “extended period /while” for me and everyone else

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Cory Lavalette @corylav.bsky.social · 22h

Brind’Amour on the injuries:

Miller: “around the corner”
Slavin: “still a little ways away.”
Robinson and Carrier: Neither need surgery; “When I say a while, for me, a while is a week, missing four games … it's gonna be more than that.”

NHLInjuryViz @nhlinjuryviz.bsky.social · 1d

Injury rate was still high but total was inflated by Covid protocol numbers

NHLInjuryViz @nhlinjuryviz.bsky.social · 1d

56-game season in 20/21

NHLInjuryViz @nhlinjuryviz.bsky.social · 1d

NHL injury frequency through each team's first 8 games (and projected to 10 games) compared to the previous 24 seasons

Running well ahead of average, with only the Covid-affected 20/21 and 21/22 seasons appreciably higher (though 22/23 was also around the same as this year)

Line chart showing game-by-game progression of total MGL to injury/illness over the NHL season, highlighting this season compared to the average of all seasons since 2000/01.

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NHLInjuryViz @nhlinjuryviz.bsky.social · 1d

Most/fewest MGL to forwards through 25 October:

30 FLA
26 BUF
22 VAN
21 EDM NJD
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3 NSH
2 CAR
0 BOS PHI SJS

NHLInjuryViz @nhlinjuryviz.bsky.social · 1d

Most/fewest MGL to defensemen through 25 October:

16 BUF UTA
15 VGK
14 SJS
13 EDM
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1 ANA CHI PIT
0 CGY DET STL

NHLInjuryViz @nhlinjuryviz.bsky.social · 1d

Most/fewest MGL to goalies through 25 October:

9 COL
8 BUF CAR CHI NYI
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NHLInjuryViz @nhlinjuryviz.bsky.social · 1d

"In season" MGL through 25 October (i.e. excluding any absences that started from Game 1)

Now only the Flames and Flyers unscathed

21 BUF
20 NJD
16 VAN
14 SJS VGK
13 CAR MTL
11 COL NYR
10 EDM SEA
9 BOS CBJ
8 DAL FLA
7 STL UTA WSH
6 DET LAK NYI OTT TBL TOR
5 MIN
4 ANA NSH
3 CHI
1 PIT WPG
0 CGY PHI

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NHLInjuryViz @nhlinjuryviz.bsky.social · 1d

"All inclusive" MGL table through 25 October, i.e. counting anyone under contract on LTIR, SOIR etc.

Dylan McIlrath now included in the Capitals' main numbers since he wasn't sent down when healthy

Chart listing contracted players who have technically missed games with injury for each NHL team (e.g. retired players or those on SOIR) but are not included in my numbers (generally as not expected to have been on the roster anyway).

NHLInjuryViz @nhlinjuryviz.bsky.social · 1d

Most injured teams currently (last game played) by total full season WAR+ of missing players. Usual exceptions. (2/2)

2.35 MIN
2.22 NSH
2.09 BOS
1.88 OTT
1.60 ANA NYR
1.44 PHI
1.40 MTL
1.22 WSH
0.87 PIT
0.82 CGY
0.80 SJS
0.32 DET
0.12 LAK
0.09 STL
0.00 CBJ

NHLInjuryViz @nhlinjuryviz.bsky.social · 1d

Most injured teams currently (last game played) by total full season WAR+ of missing players. Usual exceptions. (1/2)

8.01 VGK
6.64 CAR
6.22 FLA
5.68 NJD
4.90 COL
4.41 WPG
4.39 CHI
3.70 TOR
3.66 EDM
3.56 SEA
3.42 VAN
3.34 TBL
2.93 DAL
2.79 UTA
2.49 BUF
2.40 NYI

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NHLInjuryViz @nhlinjuryviz.bsky.social · 1d

Most injured teams currently (last game played) by total AAV ($m) of missing players. Usual exceptions. (2/2)

9.0 EDM SJS
8.2 OTT
7.6 CHI
7.4 MIN
7.3 BOS
7.0 DET
5.9 PIT
5.6 NYR
5.1 PHI
4.6 WSH
3.9 TBL
2.5 CBJ
1.7 STL
1.1 LAK
1.0 CGY

NHLInjuryViz @nhlinjuryviz.bsky.social · 1d

Most injured teams currently (last game played) by total AAV ($m) of missing players. Usual exceptions. (1/2)

31.9 VGK
22.9 CAR
21.4 FLA
17.6 BUF
17.5 TOR
16.5 NYI
15.5 ANA
14.7 NJD
14.3 MTL
14.0 COL
13.7 SEA
12.6 VAN
12.3 WPG
11.0 UTA
10.6 DAL
9.1 NSH

NHLInjuryViz @nhlinjuryviz.bsky.social · 1d

NHL injury heat map through 25 October

Chart illustrating game-by-game value of players missing to injury/illness for each NHL team (weighted by AAV).

NHLInjuryViz @nhlinjuryviz.bsky.social · 1d

Raw MGL totals through 25 October

50 BUF
38 FLA
34 EDM NJD
32 VAN
31 UTA
29 COL
28 SEA
25 WPG
24 DAL MIN
22 NYI VGK
21 CAR LAK PIT TBL
19 ANA
17 CHI
15 TOR
14 CGY SJS
13 MTL STL
12 NSH WSH
11 NYR OTT PHI
9 BOS CBJ
6 DET

NHLInjuryViz @nhlinjuryviz.bsky.social · 1d

NHL injury summary through 25 October

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NHLInjuryViz @nhlinjuryviz.bsky.social · 4d

Brind’Amour’s idea of an extended period is typically way shorter than everyone else’s, so I’ll reserve judgment

Cory Lavalette @corylav.bsky.social · 4d

Brind'Amour says Carrier and Robinson will be out for an "extended period"

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NHLInjuryViz @nhlinjuryviz.bsky.social · 4d

Pretty durable ever since!

NHLInjuryViz @nhlinjuryviz.bsky.social · 4d

That should say more than one D or as many as two

NHLInjuryViz @nhlinjuryviz.bsky.social · 4d

If you count Gardiner as retired in 22/23, the Canes had precisely *one* regular season game with more than two D out injured/ill in the 22/23, 23/24 and 24/25 seasons (Game 80 in 23/24, Chatfield and Pesce)

Did happen three more times in the 24/25 playoffs

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NHLInjuryViz @nhlinjuryviz.bsky.social · 4d

First time the Canes have had three defensemen missing to injury/illness since Game 59 of the 21/22 season (DeAngelo, Gardiner, Smith)

Corey Masisak @cmasisak22.bsky.social · 4d

The Canes were already missing Jaccob Slavin and Shayne Gostisbehere on the blue line, but K'Andre Miller is also a late scratch.

That's half of the defense corps.

The #Avs, who went the first 45-ish games of last season before facing one team with worse injury issues, know what this feels like.

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