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There’s a stat called CHIP, as in salary Cap Hit of Injured Players. It measures the impact of injuries to a team based on how many games the players miss and how much they get paid. Up until recently, The Capitals had fared very, very well on the injury front this season. They had Dmitry Orlov and John Erskine missing from the blue line but were otherwise mostly unscathed. The Caps had one of the lowest CHIPs in the league.
Then March happened. Ovechkin missed a game, both Brookses are banged up, Peters got hurt, Latta is out, are and there’s a stomach bug going around. Just as the Capitals are mounting their final push for the playoffs, they’re all of a sudden a shambling mess.
Add to that the team’s performance since the all-star break (except for the week they roughed up the scrubs), and you’ve got some genuine worry about this team. They’re barely holding on to a playoff spot, and they’re one game away from squandering their longest home stand of the season.
It seems like everything’s broken for the Caps right now.
In this week’s snapshot, everything is fixable.
But first, Husker Du.
Previous snapshots: week 1, week 2, week 3, week 4, week 5, week 6, week 7, week 8, week 9, week 10, week 11, week 12, week 13, week 14, week 15, week 16, week 17, week 18, week 19, week 20
These are current as noon on Sunday, March 15. The sample is restricted to 5v5 hockey when the score is within one goal. There’s a glossary at bottom with an explanatory video.
Player | GP | TOI | SA% | Goal% | PDO | ZS% |
Glencross | 4 | 40.2 | 58.7 | 75.0 | 118.2 | 59.1 |
Burakovsky | 50 | 446.6 | 54.3 | 61.9 | 103.1 | 63.7 |
Ovechkin | 68 | 834.5 | 53.9 | 50.0 | 99.0 | 57.0 |
Backstrom | 69 | 842.2 | 53.5 | 49.3 | 99.2 | 55.4 |
Wilson | 56 | 514.0 | 52.4 | 48.3 | 99.9 | 54.8 |
Ward | 69 | 707.0 | 52.2 | 39.1 | 96.6 | 46.6 |
Laich | 53 | 492.8 | 51.9 | 41.9 | 97.8 | 47.4 |
Beagle | 62 | 538.4 | 51.8 | 57.5 | 102.2 | 48.5 |
Latta | 42 | 278.2 | 51.7 | 61.5 | 102.4 | 44.2 |
Fehr | 65 | 646.8 | 51.3 | 46.3 | 99.0 | 45.5 |
Johansson | 69 | 656.7 | 50.4 | 45.8 | 99.2 | 56.7 |
Brouwer | 69 | 612.5 | 48.8 | 52.1 | 101.4 | 57.7 |
Kuznetsov | 67 | 547.9 | 48.0 | 51.5 | 101.3 | 54.8 |
Chimera | 64 | 556.7 | 46.9 | 45.9 | 99.7 | 46.4 |
Player | GP | TOI | SA% | Goal% | PDO | ZS% |
Schmidt | 35 | 366.9 | 53.0 | 46.7 | 98.5 | 60.1 |
Niskanen | 69 | 955.5 | 52.7 | 57.1 | 101.4 | 52.1 |
Green | 59 | 653.5 | 52.4 | 54.5 | 101.1 | 58.5 |
Gleason | 6 | 59.1 | 52.0 | 60.0 | 103.7 | 55.6 |
Alzner | 69 | 888.2 | 51.3 | 54.0 | 100.9 | 49.5 |
Carlson | 69 | 958.0 | 50.4 | 45.7 | 98.6 | 50.1 |
Orpik | 67 | 976.3 | 50.2 | 47.0 | 98.8 | 50.6 |
@russianmachine Schmidt
— ktgold (@ktgold) March 12, 2015
@russianmachine Schmidt….
— David Wade (@obannon35) March 12, 2015
Is it too late to trade Schmidt for Hillen? Least he knew which team was his and which way to turn. #SucksOnIce #CapsNYR @russianmachine
— Todd Sarah Churphy (@TnSChurphy) March 12, 2015
Thanks to War On Ice for the stats and being generally awesome.
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