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Here's someone finally doing the legwork on a stat once proposed by Tom Benjamin and something I'd been meaning to get around to eventually: quantifying the impact of players' injuries based on their salaries and time missed.

LW3H from Springing Malik explains the stat as he calculated it last season:

The concept again - multiply each game missed by a player by his 2008/09 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).

Among other things, the stat tells us that the biggest injuries in terms of impact so far are those to Andrei Markov, Patrik Elias, Marian Hossa and Phil Kessel — four stars who have yet to play a game — and that Vancouver, Edmonton and Toronto have been hardest hit by injuries to this point.

Something like this is by no means a science, but I do think it offers a better idea of which teams are impacted by injuries than simply looking at man-games lost. Here's hoping our friend in the U.K. continues to compile the numbers.

Thanks to Cassie at Raw Charge for the heads up on this one.