INFRACTION INDEX • NHL
See which NHL teams were penalized most, which games stood out, and how every team compares with the prior season’s league average.
The Infraction Index™ combines penalties and penalty minutes into one score. 100 = the prior season’s league average. Higher scores mean more infractions.
WEEKLY NHL
PENALTY RECAP
WEEK ENDING OCT 11 · 2026/2027 · INFRACTION INDEX RECAP
Published Oct 12, 2026
After 86 league games, the league's Infraction Index is 114.5 season to date, 14.5 above the 2025/2026 league average of 100. It was 116.8 seven days earlier, and the first 50 games league-wide came in at 118.0. Two weeks into a hockey season, that is noise, not a trend. The league has yet to spend a single day of it below 100.
Vegas (VGK) @ Seattle (SEA) set the bar on Tuesday, and nobody has cleared it since. The game drew 17 penalties and 65 penalty minutes for a game Index of 296.2, the highest of the season. Minnesota (MIN) @ Florida (FLA) followed on Saturday with a game Index of 258.8, so the week ending Oct 11 now owns the season's two busiest games.
Season to date, Florida (FLA) leads the league with an Index of 171.1, ahead of Ottawa (OTT) at 152.2. Both teams have been called for 29 penalties; Florida simply makes them last longer. The Atlantic has the highest division Index so far at 128.3, and the East's Index is 120.0 to the West's 108.9. Florida, in particular, has started treating the penalty box like a second bench.
INFRACTION INDEX · SEASON TO DATE
▼ −2.3 vs 7 days ago
114.5
WEEK ENDING OCT 4 · 2026/2027 · INFRACTION INDEX RECAP
Published Oct 8, 2026
Hockey came back with the penalty box already busy. Over a short, Tuesday-start week of 39 league games, the league posted an Infraction Index of 116.8 season to date, 16.8 above the 2025/2026 league average of 100.
Calgary (CGY) @ Vancouver (VAN) kept the box busiest, with the highest game Index of the week, 256.4, on 14 penalties and 58 penalty minutes.
Among teams, Washington (WSH) had the highest team Index season to date, 215.9, while New Jersey (NJD) posted the lowest, an Index of 49.4, with two games apiece. New Jersey spent opening week acting like the box charged admission. The East's Index was 120.5 to the West's 113.4, and all four divisions opened above the league average of 100.
INFRACTION INDEX · SEASON TO DATE
116.8