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Registered: October 2006
Location: Vancouver
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| smyth260 wrote on Mon, 05 December 2022 13:34 |
Yeah and what about the Bruins best defenseman only playing 10 of their games thus far. They still managed to win the most games without him. Take a look at the Avs injury list if you really want to see a team with the injury bug.
Oilers have both goalies, 5 of their top 6 forwards, and virtually all of their defenseman available. There's no injury excuses for this team. Every team has to deal with losing guys in a physical sport.
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This made me curious, so I went googling to find out which teams had the most games lost to injury, and found this cool site:
https://nhlinjuryviz.blogspot.com/2022/10/202223-team-injury -breakdowns.html
Includes the cap hit in the chart showing most time lost, which is a cool idea, but also a bit flawed. If you click on Full Injury Listing at the top, it breaks down the calculation for each team.
Any way you look at it, the Oilers having lost 32 games to injury (as of Dec. 1 and not including Tyler Benson), is pretty minimal.
Oilers Goal Differential
17/18: 234 GF / 263 GA (-29)
18/19: 232 GF / 274 GA (-42)
19/20 (82 game pace): 257 GF / 254 GA (+3) in 64 games
2021 (82 game pace):269 GF / 235 GA (+34) after 38 games
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