And with just over one month into the season, Vancouver has already lost 75 man games to injuries,...

And with just over one month into the season, Vancouver has already lost 75 man games to injuries, a number that is on pace to dwarf last year's total of about 209 games.

Hosea Cheung via Puck Daddy.

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Roughly double, actually: 82/15*75 = 410 lost man-games. And even that prob understates the loss cuz so many of this year’s injuries have been to key personnel.

by casual on Nov 3, 2009 12:45 PM PST reply actions

Well, like someone had said, at least that’s happening now and not in March (fingers crossed)

Nucks Misconduct

by Sean Zandberg on Nov 3, 2009 1:11 PM PST reply actions

Yeah, for sure, let’s use up our quota and be done with it!

by casual on Nov 3, 2009 1:23 PM PST reply actions

There was a better and more interesting metric for this out via Mirtle yesterday – CHIP (Cap Hit of Injured Players). It’s one of those lists you really hope you aren’t topping.

Mirtle’s Post
And original post at Springing Malik

by rsm on Nov 3, 2009 3:45 PM PST reply actions

It makes an 8-7-0 record look really good, actually.

by headspacej on Nov 3, 2009 3:46 PM PST reply actions

So if

this keeps up and they miss the playoffs with all these injuries does Gillis get canned?

by yoata on Nov 3, 2009 5:49 PM PST reply actions

Yes, and they name you GM. Get ready yoata!

by Beantown Canuck on Nov 3, 2009 6:03 PM PST up reply actions

heh

they wish…

… ok I wish too…

by yoata on Nov 3, 2009 6:06 PM PST reply actions

we must recall that that’s exactly what happened to Nonis… ridiculous number of injuries, esp to the top 4 Dmen, and they barely miss the dance and the powers that be “could not accept failure” or some such BS.

by yoata on Nov 3, 2009 6:12 PM PST up reply actions

I thought Nonis got canned a little early, as well.

I've seen enough to know that I've seen too much.

by Smoboy41 on Nov 3, 2009 7:01 PM PST up reply actions

Well…that helped. But from what I have been able to glean reading our various media and listening to the guys on 1040, it seems that Big Frank wanted Nonis gone. That it was more a long time coming thing rather than a spur of the moment.

The not making the playoffs was just the last thing…but not the only thing. Its also the oldest “reason” in the hockey lexicon to fire a guy.

But I could be wrong. I like this guy better than that one.

I did always like “Charie Brown’s” dogged insistence to kick the ball though.

vancitydan

by vancitydan on Nov 3, 2009 6:50 PM PST reply actions

Well of course

he wanted him gone, that’s obvious. Nonis was a Burke guy, and Burke supported the other ownership group in the dispute.

I just wonder if the excuse given will hold true if Gillis suffers the same fate this year.

One thing’s for sure, Nonis was responsible for assembling the team we enjoy now far far moreso than Gillis is.

by yoata on Nov 3, 2009 7:04 PM PST reply actions

Yep…is that Gillis’s fault though?

I have always wondered about that when these kind of discussions come up.

Like its the incoming guy’s fault that he inherits the guys he does.

For me, and I reallly don’t want to turn it into a “thing”, cuz you have made your views on Gillis abundantly clear…for me though, I have liked how MG has changed the culture of the team. The money was the owners, but all the off ice ideas in improvements and things like the sleep studies and diet etc. was all his.

So is some of the depth helping right now. He came in, said the team needed improvements. They played beyond his preseason prediction last year but were shown to have an achille’s heel in regards to speed. They have worked hard on that…The players had to buy into what was asked of them in regards to fitness…but how many guys came in this year in the best shape of their lives? Thats to some extent Gillis’s management as well.

vancitydan

by vancitydan on Nov 3, 2009 11:42 PM PST reply actions