One of the great advances in measuring the impact of injuries in the NHL has come from the United Kingdom. LW3H was born, raised and lives in the U.K., yet somehow he's developed an obsession with the NHL. And out of that obsession came the brilliant CHIP and AMIP, two metrics developed to help fans compare and understand the impact of injuries on each team in the league. He reports on these with regular updates and his blog, Springing Malik. He explains CHIP thusly:

The concept again - multiply each game missed by a player by his 2010/11 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 Hit of Injured Players).

This year's final report is in and it should come as no surprise that the Penguins held the top spot with significant injuries to both Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin, but the details in the totals are worth a deep dive.

Even though the Oilers were 13th in man games missed, Edmonton was sixth in CHIP in 2009-10. They trailed the Penguins (Crosby's injury was $4.3 million alone), Rangers, Islanders, Wild and Devils. The Avalanche and Senators were right in behind the Oilers in 7th and 8th place, $74k and ~$700k back. The Pens and Rangers were both able to make the playoffs in spite of their enormous CHIP values, the rest were not.