NHL Man-Games Lost December 23, 2015

Today’s Summary: The Detroit Red Wings hold a playoff spot despite the fact that they are among the most injured teams this season. On the other end of the scale, the New York Rangers, Washington Capitals, and Chicago Blackhawks are the least injured teams in the league.

Below are the man-games lost totals and IIT metrics for all NHL games completed up to December 23, 2015. In addition to my team data (Table 1) I provide individual skater (Table 2) and goalie (Table 3) data. See my Frequently Asked Questions for more info.

What Do The Numbers Say?

1. The Buffalo Sabres (150), Edmonton Oilers (142) and Tampa Bay Lightning (135) have suffered the most man-games lost to injury. The New York Rangers (37) and Washington Capitals (38) are the least injured teams. See Table 1 below for more rankings.
2. Edmonton (1st) and Detroit (2nd) face the greatest cumulative impact of injured forwards or defensemen by the IIT-skater metric. The Winnipeg Jets and Los Angeles Kings have faced the least impact due to injuries.
3. On the other hand, the St. Louis Blues are most affected by injuries by IIT-cfrel. The Blues are 6th in team man-games lost with 120 and have had injuries to multiple, high CFrel% players.
4. The top IIT-skater value for a defenseman is Mark Streit who missed 18 games due to injury. Duncan Keith (10 games) and Zach Bogosian (17 games missed to injury) are 2nd and 3rd in IIT-skater. See Table 2 below for more skater rankings.
5. For forwards, Paul Stastny‘s 16 games injured leads all IIT-skater metrics for forwards. Brandon Sutter is the next highest forward. So, as a function of the number of games they’re injured, how many games their team has played, and their average time on ice, these players are considered the greatest loss to their teams.
6. For IIT-cfrel, Pavel Datsyuk and Brendan Gallagher represent the greatest loss of CFrel% value based on the number of games they’ve been injured, and the number of games their team has played.
7. For goalies, Carey Price and his 21 man-games lost place him first in IIT-goalie, impact to a team due to injury to a goalie. Andrew Hammond is 2nd. See Table 3 below for more goalie rankings.

Man-Games Lost to Injury vs Team Points plot. Bottom Right = BAD, Top Left = GOOD, Bottom Left = fewer injuries, fewer wins, Top Right = more injuries, more wins. Bubble size indicates IIT-skater metric (quality of players lost).

TABLE 1. NHL TEAM MAN-GAMES LOST and IIT METRICS DECEMBER 23, 2015

Rank	Team	TGPTeam Games Played	INJ MGLInjured Man Games Lost	SUSSuspended	DNDDid Not Dress	DNPDid Not Play	MINIn Minors	IIT-cfrelInjury Impact to Team relative Corsi	IIT-skaterInjury Impact to Team for Skaters	IIT-goalieInjury Impact to Team for Goalies
	BUF	34	150	0	0	72	47	25.86	894.38	27.18

TABLE 2. NHL SKATER MAN-GAMES LOST and IIT METRICS DECEMBER 23, 2015

Rank	Team	Name	Pos	PGPPlayer Games Played	ATOIAverage Time On Ice per game	CF%relrelative Corsi %	INJ MGLInjured Man Games Lost	SUSSuspended	DNDDid Not Dress	DNPDid Not Play	MINIn Minors	IIT-cfrelInjury Impact to Team relative Corsi	IIT-skaterInjury Impact to Team for Skaters
	PHI	Mark Streit	D	16	22.77	-8.6	18	0	0	0	0	-72.85	192.85

TABLE 3. NHL GOALIE MAN-GAMES LOST and IIT METRICS DECEMBER 23, 2015

Rank	Team	Name	Pos	PGPPlayer Games Played	Save %	GAA	MinMinutes Played	INJ MGLInjured Man Games Lost	SUSSuspended	DNDDid Not Dress	DNPDid Not Play	MINIn Minors	IIT-goalieInjury Impact to Team for Goalies
	MTL	Carey Price	G	12	0.934	2.06	698	21	0	0	3	0	33.93

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