Players

C · St. Louis Blues

A 20.4 mph top speed and a 77.3 mph shot across twenty games — both beneath anything the qualified pool contains.

C · Carolina Hurricanes

Thirty-seven goals at 16.7 per cent with 63 per cent of his shots from the slot, and 2.72 takeaways per 60 — the 98th percentile.

D · New York Islanders

Thirty-six games from one of the eleven lightest defencemen in the book, at 5-10 and 180 pounds.

G · Montreal Canadiens

A .9047 in thirty-five games — 35th of the 53 who played twenty-five — on the club that allowed 319 goals.

RW · Vegas Golden Knights

The 37th-best expected-goal share of 393 forwards, off eleven goals from sixty-four shots.

G · Carolina Hurricanes

Thirty-five wins and a .9224 in 52 games, on a club whose goaltending finished 18.7 goals ahead of its chances.

G · Buffalo Sabres

Forty-one years old, 683 NHL games, 308 wins, and 31 starts on a club whose crease finished 28th in the league.

RW · Montreal Canadiens

The 13th-most sprints of 365 forwards and the 5th-percentile offensive-zone deployment, at 6-3 and 226 pounds.

D · Los Angeles Kings

Twenty minutes a night from a defenceman with the 9th-fewest sprints of 192, and the club’s best shares came beside Doughty.

C · Los Angeles Kings

Seventh overall in 2017, 109 NHL games, seventeen points — and the worst on-ice goal record of any King last season.

D · Calgary Flames

Forty-six assists from a defenceman who scored four goals, at 22:40 a night on the club with the 3rd-best chance share.

C · Winnipeg Jets

The 55th-hardest chair of 652 skaters, and the 27th-softest shot of 365 forwards.

RW · Montreal Canadiens

The 4th-percentile even-strength scoring rate at 13:43 a night, on eleven career short-handed goals and the 88th-percentile penalty ledger.

LW · Los Angeles Kings

The 8th-most shots per 60 of 393 forwards and 58.3 per cent of the expected goals — the best on-ice share on the club, at 8.8 per cent shooting.

C · Buffalo Sabres

Twenty-seven points in 80 games and 0.21 penalties drawn per 60 — the 1st percentile among the league forwards.

LW · Toronto Maple Leafs

The 6th-most hits and the 12th-fewest giveaways of 393 forwards, on a 6th-percentile shot.

C · Chicago Blackhawks

Eleven goals in 28 games at 15.5 per cent, and a career minus-75 in 378.

RW · Toronto Maple Leafs

The 96th-percentile sprint count and ground covered, off one of the six smallest workloads in the league.

C · Calgary Flames

Two hundred and fourteen shots and twelve goals — 5.6 per cent, the 7th percentile — with 2:03 shorthanded at the 93rd.

C · Washington Capitals

The fewest sprints of all 365 tracked forwards, and 1,011 career points.

RW · New York Islanders

Fewer penalties drawn per 60 than any of the 393 qualified forwards, the 4th-least ground covered of 365, and 993 games for one club.

LW · Florida Panthers

The 6th-most ground covered of the 365 forwards the tracking follows, and the 8th percentile for attacking-zone time.

LW · San Jose Sharks

Thirty-nine points off the 14th-percentile shot rate, undrafted, in a second NHL season.

LW · St. Louis Blues

The 2nd-highest shooting percentage of all 393 forwards, out of the 4th-percentile attempt share.

C · Florida Panthers

Eighty-eight points in 67 games, the 10th-most even-strength points of the 393 qualified forwards, and the 30th-fewest penalties drawn.

D · Edmonton Oilers

Fifty-one per cent of his points came on the power play — the 4th-highest of the 202 qualified defencemen — and 1.17 hits per 60 is the 6th-fewest.

C · Winnipeg Jets

Twenty-seven games at 11.11 hits per 60 and 10.11 miles per 60, at 6-4.

C · New York Islanders

The 22nd-softest deployment of 652 skaters and a below-average chance share out of it, with the 4th-most giveaways of 393 forwards.

RW · New Jersey Devils

The 97th-percentile hit rate, 65 per cent of his shots from the slot, and the 7th-percentile takeaway rate.

RW · Ottawa Senators

A 78-point pace across forty-six games, out of the 19th-softest chair of 652 skaters, at the 36th-slowest top speed of 365 forwards.

D · Columbus Blue Jackets

Forty-three games at 13:03, the 4th-lowest ice time of any qualified defenceman, and a 99.2 mph shot he never scored with.

D · Columbus Blue Jackets

Twenty and a half minutes a night at 42.5 per cent of the chances, the 5th percentile, with a shot at the 4th percentile among defencemen.

D · Vancouver Canucks

The 8th-fewest blocks of 202 defencemen and the 95th-percentile attempt share, produced in Carolina.

D · Anaheim Ducks

Four hundred and nineteen games, 301 penalty minutes, and a 36.8 per cent chance share over 216 minutes — the lowest on the roster by a distance.

RW · New York Islanders

The 18th-percentile shooting rate and the 16th-percentile attempt share, on twelve penalty minutes in seventy-five games.

LW · Tampa Bay Lightning

The 3rd-largest penalty-kill workload of 393 forwards and the 5th-fewest shots, at 37.

LW · New York Islanders

The 93rd-percentile hit rate and the 1st-percentile takeaway rate, from a first-round pick with 67 NHL games at 24.

C · Columbus Blue Jackets

Nineteen goals in 117 games across three seasons, and a fourth-round pick still waiting for the shot to arrive.

LW · Dallas Stars

Eighteen goals in 82 games, his fewest in any full season, and 88 penalty minutes, a career high at 33.

D · Toronto Maple Leafs

A 56-foot median shot with two per cent of his attempts from inside twenty feet, undrafted, at 34.

C · Florida Panthers

The 10th-most shots per 60 and the 4th-most ground covered of the qualified forwards, with 74 penalty minutes.

D · San Jose Sharks

No goals on sixty-one shots — the second-longest such run in the league — and twenty more goals against than the model asked.

D · Anaheim Ducks

Undrafted, 6-4, and 13.50 hits per 60 — the 98th percentile — with a better chance share than the veteran he was paired with, in every split of it.

LW · Edmonton Oilers

The softest recorded shot of the 649 skaters the league tracking covers — 73.1 mph.

C · Boston Bruins

Sixty-nine per cent of the expected goals at thirty-six — the highest five-on-five chance share of any skater in this book, in a 1,216th game.

LW · Detroit Red Wings

Thirty goals in 68 games from the 33rd-closest shot chart of the 393 qualified forwards — and the 20th-fewest sprints over 20 mph.

G · St. Louis Blues

A .9013 that is 38th of the 53 who played twenty-five games, and the man who finished 7th has gone to Detroit.

LW · Buffalo Sabres

A 40.0 per cent chance share — the lowest on the roster — off an 80.9 mph shot at the 2nd percentile.

RW · Seattle Kraken

The 36th-most takeaways of 393 forwards and the 91st-percentile penalty ledger, at 175 pounds.

D · Los Angeles Kings

A 21-year-old first-rounder who played 1,070 minutes, and almost every forward on the club took a worse share of the chances with him than without.

C · Arizona Coyotes

Six-foot-six, ten minutes a night, and the best chance share on the roster — which on this roster is the 56th percentile.

C · Chicago Blackhawks

Five foot eight, 7.89 hits per 60 at the 81st percentile, and 0.26 penalties taken at the 7th.

G · New Jersey Devils

A save percentage that has fallen in each of four NHL seasons — .9178, .9146, .9019, .8919.

LW · Colorado Avalanche

Thirty-two games, nine points, and 24 penalty minutes from a sixth-round pick at twenty-seven.

C · Pittsburgh Penguins

The 17th-most buried chair of 652 skaters and the 14th-heaviest penalty-killing load of 393 forwards.

G · Florida Panthers

A .9125 across 54 games — 19th of the 53 goaltenders who played 25 or more — on a club that faced the fewest chances of any.

RW · Vancouver Canucks

The 15th-least ground covered of 365 tracked forwards, and thirty-seven per cent of his points on the power play.

D · Tampa Bay Lightning

The 2nd-worst penalty differential of all 202 defencemen, and the 93rd-percentile hit rate.

LW · Minnesota Wild

Thirty-nine points in forty-seven rookie games, at the 22nd-slowest top speed of the 365 forwards the league tracks.

C · San Jose Sharks

The 4th-lowest attempt share of 393 forwards and the 2nd-most blocks, out of the lowest offensive-zone time in the league.