Introducing CHIP: Cap Hit of Injured Players
From The Rink —
... Here's someone finally doing the legwork on a stat once proposed by Tom Benjamin and something I'd been meaning to get around to eventually: quantifying the impact of players' injuries based on their salaries and time missed.
LW3H from Springing Malik explains the stat as he calculated it last season:
The concept again - multiply each game missed by a player by his 2008/09 cap charge, then take the aggregate of these figures for each team and divide by 82. This indicator of value lost to a team by injury/illness is called CHIP (Cap ...
Monday's news: It's a hard-knock life for rookie Colin Wilson
On the Forecheck —
... Body' Injury In Caps' Loss - SB Nation This is getting absurd, the number of star players felled by injury.
Patrick Kaleta: The League's Best Pest? - Hockey Or Die! A fine look at an agitator who truly creates power play situations for his team, Buffalo's Patrick Kaleta.
The Five-Best Teams that were Outshot - Behind The Net Five great teams that beat the odds, and dominated despite giving up more shots than they took.
Springing Malik: Ow, that really hurts! An interesting look at breaking down injury-loss by ...
Islanders Gameday: 'Dynasty' was a great show
Lighthouse Hockey —
... does the penance for all that '80s excess end? Sadly, not tonight. Sooner than Reagan's debt, one hopes.
Update: A little scouting report from Derek at Copper & Blue after the jump, which tells you how the Oilers are hurting, 2008-09 Islanders-style:
The Oilers roll onto the Island a still-beaten up team. The flu continues to ravage the locker room and concussions still have Sheldon Souray and Steve Staios on the shelf.The Oilers have already lost 66 man games to injury and are second in the league ...
Game Day Preview: Nashville Predators @ Los Angeles Kings
On the Forecheck —
... how severe the injury bug is hitting all over the NHL, but it's usually hard to quantify that impact. There is one blogger who is trying to track man-games lost relative to their cap hit, which is an interesting way of tracking the severity of injuries to a team; as of a few days ago he had Nashville in the middle of the pack, but with Dumont, Weber and Erat out I'm sure that figure will go up. Supposedly ...
