Man games lost

[nate94gt 134]

does anyone have the figures for man games lost for the red wings (and perhaps the rest of the league as well) for last season and this season?

Closest i found for this season is through february 28, which is here

and heres the top 10 from last season

http://www.thehockeynews.com/articles/32720-THNcom-Top-10-Games-lost-to-injury.html

where detroit was 4th w/ 307.

anyone have better/fuller stats for this?

[Guest Shoreline]

I think the Wings ended up with something like 230-270 man games lost and looking at other teams reporting theirs (I don't know where they get it), it was slightly higher in the rankings than the one you showed, but certainly nowhere near the Avalanche and Islanders.

Not that I hold much validity with this stat anyways. I've heard about man games lost over the last couple seasons and honestly I don't think it means much.

[eva unit zero 271]

The problem with man games lost is this. A team could play their #7 defenseman in the third game of the season, he could snap his femur, and bang; that's 79 man games lost. Even though he wouldn't have played in most of them anyway. It's a stat that you can't look at and say "this team lost more games to injury" because there's no way of verifying the accuracy of that, even if the player is injured. If a team with three goalies has their #3 goalie get injured, how do you count that? That guy isn't going to play many games unless the guys in front of him get injured; and at that point you can still only claim 164 man games lost (minus games those guys dressed for) across all three.

[VM1138 1,921]

I think the Wings ended up with something like 230-270 man games lost and looking at other teams reporting theirs (I don't know where they get it), it was slightly higher in the rankings than the one you showed, but certainly nowhere near the Avalanche and Islanders.

Not that I hold much validity with this stat anyways. I've heard about man games lost over the last couple seasons and honestly I don't think it means much.

I don't, either. What matters more than man-games is how good the players who are injured are. Last season the Wings had basically all of their crucial players out for huge chunks of the season. Whereas other teams may get decimated, but it's usually lower level guys.