NHLInjuryViz

He was probably the bubbliest of all the bubble cases. If he stays up when healthy, then I’ll change it.

I've already put Kaiden Guhle out for 4-6, so working on it

Was fun while it lasted

No problem

Can argue about how useful this* is but I’m definitely not a bot

*Everything else I post shows only the “core” numbers which don’t include these players, so the purpose of this table is to transparently show everyone else who is technically “with” the NHL team while injured

Most/fewest MGL to forwards through 17 October:

18 FLA
12 PIT
11 TBL UTA
10 BUF CGY MIN
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0 BOS CAR MTL NSH PHI SJS

Most/fewest MGL to defensemen through 17 October:

9 VGK
8 UTA
7 BUF PHI
6 EDM VAN
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10 teams

Most/fewest MGL to goalies through 17 October:

6 CHI
5 COL
4 BUF CAR NYI
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0 25 teams

"In season" MGL through 17 October (i.e. excluding any absences that started from Game 1). Still 9 clean records.

7 NYR
6 NJD VGK
5 BUF
4 FLA
3 BOS CBJ COL SJS STL UTA VAN
2 CAR DET EDM LAK OTT TBL TOR WSH
1 CHI DAL WPG
0 ANA CGY MIN MTL NSH NYI PHI PIT SEA

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).

"All inclusive" MGL table through 17 October, i.e. counting anyone under contract on LTIR, SOIR etc.

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

2.09 WSH
2.05 CGY
1.93 NYI
1.88 OTT
1.77 DET
1.60 NYR
1.44 PHI
0.86 SEA
0.56 PIT
0.42 SJS
0.29 STL
0.24 ANA
0.05 NSH
0.00 CBJ MTL TOR

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

7.02 TBL
6.98 LAK
6.74 NJD
6.22 FLA
4.77 EDM
4.51 COL
4.41 WPG
3.13 BUF
3.00 CHI
2.98 CAR
2.81 DAL
2.79 UTA
2.63 VAN
2.30 VGK
2.19 BOS
2.14 MIN

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

8.1 DET
8.0 SJS
6.6 SEA
6.5 BOS CBJ
6.1 MIN
5.8 ANA NYI
5.5 NSH
5.1 PHI
5.0 PIT VAN
3.3 CHI
3.2 STL
1.5 TOR
0.0 MTL

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

22.4 BUF
21.4 FLA
18.7 VGK
17.4 LAK
14.9 NJD
14.3 TBL
12.8 COL
12.3 WPG
11.5 CGY
11.1 EDM
11.0 UTA
9.3 DAL
8.9 NYR
8.5 CAR WSH
8.2 OTT

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

NHL injury heat map through 17 October

Panthers going to be orange for a while

Raw MGL totals through 17 October

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

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: Toronto, San Jose, Montreal

NHL injury summary through 17 October

Behold the actual Montreal Canadiens being the last zero MGL team in the league, finally allowing them to become the 131-point pace team they've been all along

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

NHL injury frequency through each team's first 3 games (and projected to 6 games) compared to the previous 24 seasons

An early spike, so number of players out at the Game 3 mark only surpassed by 21/22 (including a few Covid cases) and 22/23, though also comparing to mostly 30-team seasons here

And put me down for 13 November for when the LeBrun piece expressing concern about the impact of the “condensed schedule” gets published

A close cousin to this is the “I have no evidence and no support for this... but doesn't it seem like injuries in the NHL are out of control?” genre

In respect of [team that has announced injury or injuries this week], I can confirm that:

- They have had other injuries within the past 1-5 years
- It won’t ever end
- They aren’t the only team for which that is true
- It probably isn’t a sign that the medical and training staff need to be fired

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With Lucas Raymond confirmed out for tonight’s game, looks like that will leave the Sharks* and Canadiens (!) as the last remaining zero MGL teams

*Given Afanasyev, Carlsson and Thompson all waived when healthy, though Canadiens fans will be counting Couture, Ellis and especially Price anyway

Timeline of games missed to injury/illness in Keith Tkachuk's NHL career (since 2000/01 only). 00/01: 1+1+2+1 01/02: 8 02/03: 11+9 03/04: 3 05/06: 3+15+22+1 07/08: 1+2 08/09: 2+1 09/10: 1+3+7+1

And here's the same for the 9 years of Papa Tkachuk's career that I have data for

Timeline of games missed to injury/illness by Brady and Matthew Tkachuk in their NHL careers. Brady 18/19: 2+9 23/24: 1 24:25: 2+8 Matthew 16/17: 2 17/18: 12 19/20: 1+4 (playoffs) 22/23: 1+1 (playoffs) 23/24: 1+1 24/25: 5+25

Injury histories (in terms of games missed at least) for the Tkachuk boys heading into this season

Getting much better at coordinating their absences

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).

"All inclusive" MGL table through 11 October (reposted with the sorting corrected)

Full updates should start from next weekend

Too early for the "in season" MGL numbers, as nearly all games missed so far are carry overs from before Game 1. Only exceptions (i.e. played in Game 1 and missed a game since):

2 Hanifin
1 Dadonov, J. Dickinson, Girard, Kulikov, H. Lindholm, Norris, Toropchenko, Trocheck

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).

"All inclusive" MGL table through 11 October

Subject to some correction if/when some players do/don't get reassigned when healthy (for the Sharks especially)

Raw MGL numbers through 11 October:

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