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.
How they landed
Every finished team-game this season, league-wide. The white tick on each bar is .500.
Jet lag forecast
Hangover games in the next 7 days. Times are local to the arena.
Who travels worst
Points % in hangover games minus points % in every other game.
Can't sleep on planes
Out cold by takeoff
The worst trips
The biggest clock jumps this season, played or still on the schedule. Ties go to the shortest turnaround.
Latest hangover games
The most recent finished games a team played jet-lagged, newest first.
Frequent flyers
All 32 teams, by hangover games played. Hours crossed adds up every clock jump.
| Team | Status | Lag GP | Lag pts% | Diff |
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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.