The Noon Number: Johnny Not On the Spot

Photo by Richard A. Whittaker/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images16 - Number of games missed by John Carlson over the last six seasons, dating back to the start of 2017-18. No one on the team has played more games than Carlson over that span, with the stalwart blueliner having appeared in 391 of the 407 Caps games overall. The six games he missed earlier this season were already the most he’s missed in a single season going back to 2017.

via Hockey-Reference/StatheadCarlson has been an iron man of sorts for most of his career with the Capitals; in his first five seasons as a full-time NHLer, he appeared in every single game, a streak that ended in 2015-16 when a lower-body injury - later…