A look at just how bad things are for the Chicago Blackhawks.

If you think your favorite team has had a rough time of things this season you may want to take a glance over at the situation the Chicago Blackhawks currently find themselves in, it's likely to make you thankful that things aren't that much worse.

The Blackhawks have been perhaps the unluckiest organization in the National Hockey League this season, so much so that the team is almost unrecognizable when compared to their opening day roster. It has been at the forward position that the Blackhawks have suffered the most damage, with the mysterious departure of Corey Perry and a host of injuries leaving them decimated at the position.

For the sake of a quick visual comparison, here is that opening day roster:

Forwards:
Taylor Hall - Connor Bedard - Ryan Donato
Tyler Johnson - Lukas Reichel - Taylor Raddysh
Boris Katchouk - Cole Guttman - Andreas Athanasiou
Nick Foligno - Jason Dickinson - Corey Perry

Defensemen:
Alex Vlasic - Seth Jones
Kevin Korchinski - Connor Murphy
Jarred Tinordi - Wyatt Kaiser

Now let's take that same roster and simply remove the players currently out due to injury, or for a different unspecified reason in the case of Corey Perry:

Forwards:
Inured - Injured - Ryan Donato
Injured - Lukas Reichel - Injured
Boris Katchouk - Cole Guttman - Injured
Injured - Jason Dickinson - Contract terminated

Defensemen:
Alex Vlasic - Injured
Kevin Korchinski - Connor Murphy
Jarred Tinordi - Wyatt Kaiser

When you make the direct comparison it truly highlights just how bad things are for the Blackhawks with defenseman Seth Jones as well as forwards Taylor Hall, Tyler Johnson, Andreas Athanasiou, Anthony Beauvillier, Nick Foligno, Connor Bedard, Joey Anderson and Taylor Raddysh all currently sidelined on injured reserve.

In fact things are so bad for the Blackhawks that, as Blackhawks insider Mark Lazerus has pointed out, the team currently has more of their cap money committed to players on injured reserve than on the actual Blackhawks active roster. That works out to a whopping total of $35,408,333 committed to injured players compared to just $32,328,333 on the active roster.

The unfortunate reality for the Blackhawks is that there simply is no way to bounce back from this kind of bad luck and they will have to make the best of a terrible situation as they continue to push through what will no doubt be an extremely taxing regular season from this point forward.