NHLInjuryViz

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

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

56-game season in 20/21

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 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)

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

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

Most/fewest MGL to goalies through 25 October:

9 COL
8 BUF CAR CHI NYI
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0 24 teams

"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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

NHL injury heat map through 25 October

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

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

NHL injury summary through 25 October

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

Pretty durable ever since!

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

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

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

Timeline chart of games missed to injury/illness in Chris Tanev's NHL career. 10/11: 2 12/13: 14 (including 4 playoffs) 13/14: 7+11 14/15: 2+10 15/16: 1+1+2+3+6 16/17: 3+20+1+2+3 17/18: 7+7+2+17+7 18/19: 5+11+11 21/22: 4 (playoffs) 22/23: 5+3+2+6 23/24: 3 24/25: 1+6

Not had a Chris Tanev injury chart for a while, so here's a Chris Tanev injury chart

Streit also the *only* other Islander to do that since 2000/01 (if you also count Kevin Haller as already “retired” in 2002/03)

So not among Rick DiPietro’s pre-buyout achievements, perhaps contrary to expectations

Pierre Engvall would be the first Islander to miss a full season to injury since Mark Streit in 2010/11 (if you count Mikhail Grabovski as already “retired” in 2016/17)

Season timeline view of player injury history for Mark Stone.

Player injury history timeline views progressed far enough to be able to show that Mark Stone has:

(a) Missed (only) two playoff R2 G5s twelve years apart
(b) Missed regular season Game 82 on four occasions (two followed by not making the playoffs, two followed by...something else)

I don’t know much but “team without an injury for a while will probably get an injury soon” (or two days ago) is pretty reliable

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

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