While the NHL doesn't release these numbers publicly, most of the 30 NHL teams track their man-games lost to injury during the season and provide them to local media.

Here are the team totals, sorted by man-games lost per game, as of their most recent game.

The only team that's not providing man-games lost information right now is the Sharks. If those figures become available, they'll be added to this list.

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Teams GP MGL MGL/G 1 Detroit 33 186 5.64 2 Florida 34 163 4.79 3 Ottawa 33 158 4.79 4 Philadelphia 32 133 4.16 5 Washington 33 107 3.24 6 Winnipeg 34 109 3.21 7 Carolina 31 92 2.97 8 Columbus 33 92 2.79 9 Colorado 31 81 2.61 10 Phoenix 32 83 2.59 11 Buffalo 33 85 2.58 12 Calgary 31 78 2.52 13 Vancouver 33 83 2.52 14 Edmonton 32 80 2.50 15 NY Rangers 32 80 2.50 16 Montreal 32 77 2.41 17 Chicago 32 66 2.06 18 Toronto 34 70 2.06 19 Dallas 32 64 2.00 20 Tampa Bay 33 62 1.88 21 St. Louis 32 58 1.81 22 NY Islanders 33 56 1.70 23 New Jersey 33 53 1.61 24 Nashville 33 51 1.55 25 Minnesota 31 45 1.45 26 Anaheim 32 37 1.16 27 Los Angeles 32 37 1.16 28 Pittsburgh 34 29 0.85 29 Boston 31 19 0.61 30 San Jose 31 N/A N/A Average 32.4 80.5 2.47

In a typical 82-game season, teams generally average roughly around three man-games lost per team, a figure that teams would likely reach due to season-ending injuries if there were more games played.

What we haven't seen, however, is an epidemic of injuries due to the condensed schedule, as these numbers don't appear that far off the norm.

You'll note that most of the teams on the low end here are playoff teams, and that's not a coincidence. There's a correlation between man-games lost and points percentage every year that's pretty significant.

And that makes what Detroit and Ottawa are doing all the more impressive.

The effect of man-games lost to injury

Generally speaking, NHL teams with fewer man-games lost to injury (left hand side of the chart) have better records (higher on chart). Teams need roughly 0.55 points per game to make the postseason.