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Final NHL injury summary for the 2023/24 regular season (playoff teams highlighted)
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The Penguins' 6 consecutive healthy games is (perhaps to no surprise) the longest such streak they've had going back to 2000/01 - only matched by a 6-gamer across two series during the 2012/13 playoffs
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$-weighted injuries against points-per-game through 17 November
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The Blue Jackets become the first team this season to have 11 players missing to injury/illness for a game
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Not that the pattern has changed in the past couple of days but since they've broken 100...
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Plot of Lost WAR to injuries against points per game through 24 April
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By unpopular demand, total man-games lost to injury/illness over the 2010s (excluding full seasons of players "retired" under contract).
This news will surely come as a shock to Canucks and Penguins fans.
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The 9 players out for Vegas last night have a total AAV of $41.7m, which I think is the first time any team has gone past the $40m mark since I started tracking per game in 10/11 (so very likely ever, given cap inflation)
I’m hearing it’s unlikely Shea Theodore will be able to play tonight for the Golden Knights after that awkward fall against Carolina.
If you’re looking for good news, Zach Whitecloud has been progressing quickly, looks like he may even make his return tonight.
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"Healthy" games (nobody out with injury/illness) through 4 April
49 STL
38 EDM
29 NSH
22 DAL
15 FLA
13 BOS
10 SEA
9 DET NYR WPG
6 PIT
5 ARI OTT PHI
4 MIN NYI
2 CAR NJD
1 BUF
0 13 teams
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As a follow up to this, here is a comparison of last year with this year in terms of number of players in protocol across the season, rather than games missed.
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Capitals MGL for the season: 57
Blue Jackets MGL for the past 6 games: 58
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"In season" MGL at the All-Star break (i.e. excluding any absences that started from Game 1) (1/2)
319 CBJ
199 TOR
193 COL WPG
172 MTL
170 WSH
169 ANA
168 OTT
153 DET
151 VAN
137 VGK
134 CHI
120 STL
115 CAR
110 NYI
107 FLA
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NHL injury heat map through 1 April
Not that their fans/media would ever say so, but PIT past 4 games roughly equates to WSH entire year
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Updated CHIP vs Points and CHIP vs xG plots through 10 January
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The Ducks will have the highest CHIP (Cap Hit of Injured Players) in the league for the second straight year
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Updated CHIP vs Points and CHIP vs xG plots through 17 January
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I'm not going to suggest one player can have this effect, but this is an impressive correlation between the games Marcus Foligno has missed (highlighted) and the Wild's xGF% going through the floor
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Final NHL injury summary for the 2022/23 regular season (playoff teams highlighted)
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This'll no doubt change in a matter of minutes, but this is a ranking of sorts of teams by total player days in Covid-19 protocol (data from
@CapFriendly
).
Not trying to account for games missed or player value here (and it covers any time overlapping with opening day or later).
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SJS (459)
76 Couture
68 Benning
44 Emberson
33 MacDonald
32 Barabanov
22 Smith
20 Vaněček
17 Sturm
16 Lindblom
15 Blackwood
14 Hertl
13 Granlund Rutta
10 Carpenter Hoffman Zadina
9 Okhotiuk
6 Thrun
5 Kunin
4 Ferraro Labanc Vlasic
3 Addison Duclair Šimek
2 Burroughs Eklund
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Plot of Lost WAR to injuries against points per game through 1 May
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Most players out injured/ill for any single game this season (usual exceptions)
11 CBJ
10 COL MTL VGK
9 WSH
8 DET STL
7 ANA FLA OTT PHI WPG
6 BUF CHI NYI PIT SJS TOR VAN
5 BOS CAR NJD SEA TBL
4 ARI EDM LAK MIN NSH
3 CGY
2 DAL NYR
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Most injured teams currently (last game played) by total AAV of missing players. Usual exceptions.
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This is the small group of 400+ MGL teams to make the playoffs since 2000/01.
Vegas and Colorado will join them this season, both still with a chance of getting past the 08/09 Blues' high mark of 465. (Vegas at 409, Colorado at 421 through 74 games.)
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Vancouver's mumps-influenced game yesterday made them the first team this season to have 10 players out injured/ill for a single game
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NHL injury summary through 5 January
Capitals reach halfway with more MGL than 15 of their past 21 full seasons and a higher $-weighted number than all but last year's (which they'll pass this week) - cap growth part of that, obviously, but way ahead of most years
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Number of times leading the league for most MGL in the season (since 00/01, including 22/23; one tie in 05/06)
6 MTL
2 CBJ EDM FLA LAK NYI STL
1 ANA BOS CHI PIT VAN
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Only six teams since 2000/01 have had a streak of 20+ games with nobody out injured/ill. Only one has managed to get to 25.
Dorion - I wish we could have gone 20 or 25 games this year without injury to see exactly what we could be.
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Injury breakdown through 14 February when weighted by 3-year WAR (some discontinuity with last week here, as I'm no longer including 2016/17 WAR in the average)
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The Blue Jackets could be without 9 injured players tonight (their 16th game).
"Has any team been without 9 or more players this early in a season before?" I hear nobody ask. Let's take a look...
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COL (351)
51 Byram
47 Matteau
39 Murray
29 Landeskog
26 MacDonald
24 Francouz
19 Nichushkin
16 MacKinnon
15 Girard Toews
12 Compher Helm
11 Kadri
9 Kaut
7 Rantanen
5 Kuemper
4 E. Johnson
3 J. Johnson Makar
2 Burakovsky
1 Cogliano Newhook
Dressed for 82: None
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Columbus with a shot at being the first team this season to have 10 players out with injury/illness for a game
Bad news keeps comin’:
#CBJ
forward Oliver Bjorkstrand expected to miss 4-to-6 weeks due to rib/cartilage contusion and oblique strain after he was crosschecked by
#NJDevils
Damon Severson late in Saturday’s 5-1 win.
Nathan Gerbe emergency recalled from
@monstershockey
.
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NHL injury heat map through 4 November.
Anaheim still committed to staying on brand with the continuous orange.
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If Kevin Hayes is available then tonight will be the first "healthy" game (no injury/illness absences) for the Rangers this season
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Updated list of most MGL in back-to-back seasons (since 00/01)
1,199 MTL 21/22-22/23
1,163 LAK 02/03-03/04
998 LAK 03/04-05/06
986 NYI 07/08-08/09
976 VGK 21/22-22/23
921 PHI 21/22-22/23
919 NYI 08/09-09/10
906 NYI 09/10-10/11
885* CBJ 21/22-22/23
884 MTL 00/01-01/02
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Nyquist will be the 21st Blue Jacket to miss at least one game with injury/illness this season, which is the most in the league
#CBJ
going with Joonas Korpisalo again tonight in net at Vancouver.
Gus Nyquist (indefinitely) and Nick Blankenburg (day to day) out with upper body injuries. Emil Bemstrom and Gavin Bayreuther go in.
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Think I’m right in saying Merzlikins and Laine are the only two players in the whole league announced as being in Covid protocol this season. Them being the only two players in the whole league to have caught Covid this season seems…unlikely.
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Plot of Lost WAR to injuries against points per game (final except for Flames and Canucks)
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Becomes only the fifth Star to miss a game with injury this season. Still only one game all season where the Stars have had as many as two players out injured.
Per Pete DeBoer: Joel Kiviranta is out tonight and for a little while moving forward with a lower body injury. Marian Studenic slots in from the AHL. He has history with Stars assistant coach Alain Nasereddine from their time together in New Jersey so that helps.
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Season-opening injury summary based on who was designated as "injured" in the official opening rosters (usual h/t to
@CapFriendly
)
Note that some "injured" players will play in the team's first game and some not listed as "injured" will miss a game or more (but won't go on IR)
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Plot of Lost WAR to injuries against points per game through 3 April
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The Sabres and Avalanche were the only teams to have had 10+ players out injured/ill for at least a game in both the 20/21 and 21/22 seasons, so the Avalanche are primed to surge ahead by extending the streak to three seasons
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"In season" MGL through 26 January (i.e. excluding any absences that started from Game 1) (2/2)
99 BUF
98 PIT
97 NJD
92 LAK PHI
88 ARI
79 MIN
76 SJS
71 NSH
57 TBL
56 BOS
42 CGY
34 SEA
29 NYR
21 DAL
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Timing means that he might “only” miss 8 regular season games and playoffs, but looks like the most lengthy injury to any Caps player since Orpik missed 40 games in 2015/16.
Michal Kempny tore his left hamstring and had surgery. He’s expected to miss four to six months.
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@wewantthefoot
@IowaAvsFan
@returnofaj
@Peter_Baugh
@jessemontano_
@runwriteAarif
They’re the only two teams since 00/01 to win the division with more than 450 MGL, so a record of sorts, yes
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Vegas became the first team this season to have 10 players missing to injury/illness for a game last night (with the caveats that it includes Lehner and two other goalies but excludes Miromanov)
Eichel
Karlsson
Theodore
Lehner
Hill
Carrier
Hutton
Björnfot
Patera
Amadio
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Who wants a thread of injury charts for the past 20 Stanley Cup winners?
Nobody? Tough.
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$-weighted injuries against points-per-game through 26 November
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Summary of all players on IR, LTIR or SOIR for declared opening rosters (customary h/t
@CapFriendly
).
As usual, not every player here will miss a game, some players injured but not on IR will miss the first game or more. Some notes on my classifications to follow...
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This was on the Avalanche-Flames broadcast last night. What I have since 00/01 FWIW: (1/2)
287 PIT 16/17
269 NJD 03/04
261 COL 01/02
249 CAR 06/07
242 DET 02/03
205 DET 08/09
188 STL 19/20 (71g)
187 PIT 09/10
183 CHI 13/14
176 PIT 17/18
172 TBL 21/22
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Since 2009/10, the Canucks have had a player miss at least 20 games in a season with injury/illness (not always in one go) 63 times, which is the most in the league.
Next are the ThrasherJets with 58 and Penguins with 56.
Season ending shoulder surgery for Justin Bailey today.
He will be ready this summer for next year
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Fairly rare but not an unprecedented number. Usually only see it with non-contending teams right at the end of the season though.
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ANA (304)
51 Zegras
46 McGinn
36 Lundeström
29 Drysdale
27 Jones
20 Carlsson
19 Killorn Mintyukov
18 McTavish
16 Gudas
6 Gibson Terry
3 Lyubushkin Strome
2 Leason
1 Fowler Henrique Johnston
Dressed for 82: Dostál Vatrano
SOIR: De Leo
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Skaters to dress for every game this season:
VAN
Höglander
Horvat
Miller
Myers
Pearson
Pettersson
VGK
Kolesar
Smith
WPG
Connor
Copp
Dubois
Lowry
Morrissey
WSH
Ovechkin
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FWIW, a plot of (CHIP) Cap Hit of Injured Players against Points for each team over the 2010s (again, make inferences about playoff injuries and performances - not shown here - at your own risk...)
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Be wary about reading too much into this, but further to
@TSNBobMcKenzie
comment earlier on concussion disclosure, this gives an idea of which teams have done so over recent years.
Have the Caps really only just had their first concussion in nine years?
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The Stars haven’t had a skater with an injury absence of more than 14 games since the 2020/21 season
Pete DeBoer said Evgenii Dadonov will miss extended time with a fracture suffered in Montreal.
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I’ve checked and this is the first time McDavid, Jones, Weber, Cizikas, Kadri, Atkinson, Stamkos and Kuznetsov have got injured in the same week
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Just the second game all season the Stars have had more than one player out with injury
Luke Glendening is out with an injury he suffered in overtime last night. He’s week-to-week, per Pete DeBoer. Huge blow to the Stars’ faceoff circle and penalty kill.
Freddy Olofsson is up. Scott Wedgewood in net today. Joe Kiviranta remains out. Lineup could change as well.
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@HabsChronicle
Might not tabulate it but I'll be including that in this thread after (but not immediately after) teams play their last game. I know Columbus already has had nobody dress for all 82.
Thread of season end MGL totals for each team starts here>>>
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Season-opening injury summary based on who was designated as "injured" in the official opening rosters (so not necessarily on IR/LTIR). (Usual h/t to
@CapFriendly
)
Caveats to follow...
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"In season" MGL through 13 January (i.e. excluding any absences that started from Game 1) (1/2)
250 CBJ
166 WPG
158 TOR
156 COL
142 ANA
140 WSH
137 DET
128 OTT
122 VAN
107 CHI
101 MTL
97 BUF
94 CAR
91 VGK
89 NJD
88 EDM STL
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Keith Yandle's streak started in 08/09, so he doesn't appear in my injury data at all.
By comparison, here is an illustration of the games missed (between 10/11 and 20/21) by the other 18 D-men active in 08/09 and still under contract now.
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Axis now adjusted to accommodate Winnipeg not being able to stay north of the border
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"In season" MGL through 15 December (i.e. excluding any absences that started from Game 1) (1/2)
142 CBJ
108 TOR
101 COL
99 WSH
93 DET
85 WPG
83 VAN
80 ANA
76 BUF
75 CHI
63 CAR OTT
62 MIN PHI
54 MTL NJD
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PIT (280)
41 Zucker
37 Malkin
22 Rust
19 Beaulieu Domingue
18 McGinn O'Connor
16 Blueger
13 Crosby
10 Aston-Reese
8 Matheson
7 Jarry
6 Boyle Carter Dumoulin Guentzel Heinen
4 DeSmith Letang Pettersson Ruhwedel
3 Zohorna
1 Friedman Kapanen Marino
Dressed for 82: Rodrigues
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Fantilli will likely become the 14th CBJ player to have an injury absence of 15+ games since the start of 22/23 (Bean, Blankenburg, Boqvist, Chinakhov, Danforth, Jenner, Laine, Mayer, Roslovic, Severson, Tarasov, Voráček, Werenski)
The Adam Fantilli timeline puts him out until around the end of March. By then, the season will be down to some 10 games left. Brutal for
#CBJ
but could have been much worse.
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Thread of season end MGL totals for each team starts here>>>
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Most injured teams currently (last game played) by total AAV of missing players
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Ignoring a handful of teams that had a large number of players come out of Covid protocol at the same time last season, then the four Jets here do have the largest total AAV of any group of players returning in the same game going back to 2008/09 (cap inflation helps, clearly)
I asked Dom if any team has gotten the combined Game Score of Ehlers, Wheeler, Perfetti, and Schmidt back from injury on a single night before.
That's tough to pull up but, for trivia's sake:
Their GSVA numbers add up to "a lil more than one McDavid."
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MTL (600)
82 Byron
57 Monahan
45 Gallagher
41 Slafkovský
38 Armia Guhle
36 Caufield
34 Matheson
29 Xhekaj
28 Evans
24 Dach
21 Edmundson
20 Drouin Savard
18 Dvorak
13 Harris
11 Allen Anderson
9 Hoffman
7 Wideman
6 Barron
5 Belzile
4 Dadonov
2 Harvey-Pinard
1 Ylönen
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Work in progress on another way of showing the distribution of injuries by player
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Most/fewest MGL to defensemen through 24 November:
50 VAN
46 MTL
39 SJS
36 FLA
35 TOR
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2 EDM
1 LAK TBL
0 SEA STL
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Last night was the first time the Red Wings had no players missing to injury/illness (ignoring LTIRetired cases) in 463 games - longest streak in the league by a distance.
I’ve not seen the score. Presume it went well?
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Games with no defensemen out injured/ill (through 19 January):
40 EDM
38 STL
37 SEA
36 BUF CAR
34 DAL DET LAK
33 NYR
31 COL
30 TBL
22 PHI
19 FLA
18 WSH
16 CBJ
14 CHI OTT
13 BOS PIT
12 NSH
10 ARI NJD
9 NYI
7 ANA
4 MIN
3 WPG
1 VGK
0 CGY MTL SJS TOR VAN
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Injuries (weighted by a 3+ year WAR measure) against points-per-game through 17 November
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Since 09/10, most/fewest 15+ game injuries (regular season, excluding expansion teams):
84 VAN
69 PIT
67 WPG/ATL CBJ
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33 NYR
31 CAR
30 WSH
Off the Blueger and now Zucker news, is it just me or do Pens have an inordinate # of players hurt for long periods of time?
Over the last 3.5 seasons alone, they've had 13 regulars out 15+ GP with one injury, not counting Blueger and Zucker. . .
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Re Landeskog news: Can check later but the list of players in the past two decades to miss two whole seasons with injury and come back to the NHL is very short. Might be no longer than James Sheppard.
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$-weighted injuries against points-per-game through 12 April
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Faintly amusing piece of injury trivia:
I've got $-weighted injuries for each team going back as far as 2008/09. Vegas' cumulative number has now passed that of the Rangers despite the Rangers having a nine season head start.
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Ovechkin’s injury history before last night. 32 games missed (zero playoff games, 5 to Covid protocol) in 17+ seasons.
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