Red-eye edition · NHL jet lag

Time Zone Hangover

Your body says 4 a.m. The scoreboard says puck drop. Every NHL game played a day or two after crossing two or more time zones, against every other game. Real results, small samples, no excuses.

Hangover Air · Boarding pass
From
RST
Everything else
To
LAG
2+ zones, ≤2 days
Points % rested-ish—
Points % hungover—
Goal diff / gm—
Flew east—
Flew west—
Gate2+ ZONES
Rest≤ 2 DAYS
Next 7 days—
Arrivals

How they landed

Every finished team-game this season, league-wide. The white tick on each bar is .500.

Departures

Jet lag forecast

Hangover games in the next 7 days. Times are local to the arena.

Departures · Jet-lagged
Turbulence report

Who travels worst

Points % in hangover games minus points % in every other game.

Can't sleep on planes

    Out cold by takeoff

      Brutal itineraries

      The worst trips

      The biggest clock jumps this season, played or still on the schedule. Ties go to the shortest turnaround.

        Baggage claim

        Latest hangover games

        The most recent finished games a team played jet-lagged, newest first.

        Loyalty program

        Frequent flyers

        All 32 teams, by hangover games played. Hours crossed adds up every clock jump.

        TeamStatusLag GPE / WHoursLag recordLag pts%Other pts%Diff

        Fine print

        Built from all 32 team schedules. Only regular-season games count, and only once they're final. Points % is points divided by points available, so an overtime or shootout loss is half a game. Goal differential uses the final score, so a shootout win counts one goal.

        Clock offsets come from the NHL's own schedule for each arena. The previous arena's offset is moved by any daylight-saving change there between the two games. Winnipeg is on UTC-5 all winter now that Manitoba kept daylight time, and the NHL schedule agrees.

        Samples are small, especially early in the season. A team needs a few hangover games before it gets ranked.

        Sources