Players

D · Columbus Blue Jackets

Eleven goals on 64 shots — 17.2 per cent, the highest conversion rate of the 202 qualified defencemen.

C · New Jersey Devils

Twenty-three points in fifty-six games at 13:08, the 90th percentile for sprints and the 2nd for penalties drawn.

D · Seattle Kraken

Thirty-six games and a 54-foot median shot, from a fourth-round pick who has played fifty NHL games in three years.

C · Washington Capitals

The 6th-lowest even-strength point rate of all 393 forwards.

D · Nashville Predators

The most hits, the most penalties taken and the most penalties drawn of all 202 qualified defencemen, and the most penalty minutes in the league.

D · St. Louis Blues

The 4th-shortest median shot of 202 defencemen and the 8th-smallest workload, on a level chance share.

D · Edmonton Oilers

The 5th-most shots per 60 of the 202 qualified defencemen, the 15th-most even-strength points, and the 7th-most giveaways.

C · Arizona Coyotes

Seventeen goals off 88 shots at 19.3 per cent, from a median of 17 feet, with the softest shot in the league — a 28-year-old career year with nothing repeatable in it.

D · Ottawa Senators

Eighty-six shots and no goals — more shots without scoring than any skater in the league — at 5-10 and 185 pounds.

C · Ottawa Senators

Nine hundred and fifty-one games and 522 points, with the 2nd-percentile block rate and the 83rd-percentile hit rate at 35.

LW · New Jersey Devils

A sixth-round pick at 5-10, seventy-three points, and every single team-mate took a better share of the chances with him than without.

D · Philadelphia Flyers

The longest median shot distance of all 202 defencemen and the 3rd-least ground covered of 192, in a twelfth season.

D · Edmonton Oilers

Twenty-three games at 21, and 66 per cent of his attempts came from beyond forty feet.

D · Toronto Maple Leafs

The 5th-fewest shots per 60 of 202 defencemen, at 21:19 a night on the top pair.

D · Minnesota Wild

Twenty-three and a half minutes a night, the 6th-percentile hit rate, and 60.3 per cent of the chances when Mathew Dumba was on the bench.

C · New York Rangers

Twenty-two games at 29, and one goal on thirty-four shots.

G · Vegas Golden Knights

Two seasons of six hundred shots three hundredths apart, and a career .9053 across 2,809.

RW · Washington Capitals

The 2nd-most short-handed minutes of all 393 forwards, and the 10th-fewest hits.

D · Arizona Coyotes

Six-five, 9.58 hits per 60 at the 94th percentile, and 4 goals in 171 NHL games.

C · St. Louis Blues

A first-round pick at 6-7 with sixty-nine NHL games in five calendar years.

C · Philadelphia Flyers

The 6th-most buried chair of 652 skaters and the 5th-most blocks of 393 forwards, undrafted at 30.

D · Buffalo Sabres

Five-foot-nine and 177 pounds, the 94th percentile in bursts above 20 mph, and 0.15 even-strength points per 60 — the lowest figure at his position.

LW · St. Louis Blues

Nine team-mates have a recorded with-and-without line beside him and all nine took a better share of the expected goals with him.

LW · Toronto Maple Leafs

The 3rd-most penalties drawn of all 393 forwards, and a 60.0 per cent chance share at 26.

LW · Seattle Kraken

The 9th-longest median shot of 393 forwards and the 7th-lowest slot share, and sixty-one points off it.

D · Carolina Hurricanes

Twenty-six minutes a night at thirty-seven — the 99th percentile — and 3.73 miles a game, the most of any skater in this book.

D · Vancouver Canucks

The 5th-most hits and the 3rd-fewest giveaways of 202 defencemen, on the 3rd-smallest workload at the position.

RW · Los Angeles Kings

Second overall in 2020, 6-5 and 230, and forty-six NHL games at twenty with eleven points to show for them.

D · Colorado Avalanche

Seventeen points in 30 games at twenty, and a top speed at the 96th percentile among defencemen.

G · Edmonton Oilers

A .9140 across 49 games — 17th of the 53 goaltenders who played 25 or more — behind a club that took the 5th-best chance share in the league.

D · Winnipeg Jets

The 6th-lowest expected-goal share of 202 defencemen and the 4th-worst penalty differential.

LW · Arizona Coyotes

Five-foot-nine, undrafted, an NHL debut at twenty-five, and four goals in 21 games.

D · Boston Bruins

Six-five, 227, the 89th percentile in shorthanded minutes, and 0.96 giveaways per 60 — one of the lowest rates at the position.

D · Washington Capitals

The most power-play ice of all 202 defencemen and the 4th-highest even-strength point rate.

D · Washington Capitals

Thirty-eight games at 20.7 mph, and twenty-four goals scored on his ice against an expectation of seventeen and a half.

D · Florida Panthers

The fewest minutes per game of the 202 qualified defencemen bar one, and the 91st percentile for ground covered.

C · New York Rangers

The 11th-most buried chair of 652 skaters, the 90th-percentile penalty-killing load, and the 4th-percentile shooting rate.

C · Anaheim Ducks

A thirty-year-old fourth-line centre who drew penalties at the 96th percentile and took them at the 98th, and gave back more than he earned.

D · Nashville Predators

Twenty-seven assists and a plus-26 from the 4th-lightest defenceman in the book, at 5-11 and 174 pounds.

LW · Vegas Golden Knights

The 16th-fastest top speed of 365 forwards and the 5th-softest shot of the same 365.

C · Pittsburgh Penguins

The 3rd-heaviest penalty-killing load of the Pittsburgh forwards at 37, and the worst pair share of any Penguin with Kris Letang.

RW · Montreal Canadiens

Five-foot-eight, twenty-three goals at 21, the 9th-most ground covered of 365 forwards and the 2nd-fewest blocks of 393.

D · Edmonton Oilers

The 5th-fewest penalties drawn of the 202 qualified defencemen and the 8th percentile for penalties taken — twenty-one minutes of nothing happening.

D · Tampa Bay Lightning

The 94th-percentile hit rate, the 98th-percentile penalties drawn and the 4th-percentile giveaways, at 6-4.

D · Ottawa Senators

The 2nd-most ice time of 202 defencemen and ten seconds a night short-handed, with the 91st-percentile giveaway rate.

D · Detroit Red Wings

Twenty-three minutes a night and 2:58 short-handed at the 96th percentile — with the 19th-worst penalty ledger of the 202 qualified defencemen.

RW · Detroit Red Wings

The 2nd-fewest takeaways of the 393 qualified forwards, the 6th-highest share of points on the power play, and eleven and a half minutes a night.

RW · Columbus Blue Jackets

The 3rd-lowest share of offensive-zone time among the forwards the tracking covers, and a minus-27 in 62 games.

D · Arizona Coyotes

Twenty-three minutes a night, the hardest shot on the club at 101.2 mph, 7.83 shots per 60 at the 99th percentile — and 47 games of it.

C · New York Rangers

The 98th-percentile ground covered and the 93rd for sprints, on the 8th-percentile shooting rate.

C · Tampa Bay Lightning

A 100.2 mph shot from a checking centre with the 4th-hardest chair on the club.

C · New York Islanders

The 10th-lowest attempt share of 393 forwards, out of the 25th-most buried chair of 652 skaters.

D · Buffalo Sabres

A 42.4 per cent chance share across two organisations, and a fourth club at twenty-four.

LW · Toronto Maple Leafs

Nine hundred and three penalty minutes in 751 games, and four points in twenty-five at 8:48 a night.

D · Boston Bruins

Nine and a half hits per 60 at the 95th percentile, a 23.0 mph top speed at the 94th, and a giveaway rate in the 2nd percentile at his position — almost nobody loses the puck less.

RW · New York Islanders

The 4th-most hits of 393 forwards at 34, with seventeen career short-handed goals and the 32nd-most buried chair of 652 skaters.

D · Carolina Hurricanes

A 97.6 mph shot with 85 per cent of it from beyond 40 feet, and eight goals of scoring his ice created and never got.

C · Colorado Avalanche

One thousand one hundred and forty games, and 4.80 shots per 60 at the 7th percentile.

D · Tampa Bay Lightning

The worst penalty differential of all 202 defencemen, and the 3rd-highest attempt share.

LW · Calgary Flames

Two hundred and twelve shots at 7.5 per cent, and 65.8 per cent of the chances with Andrew Mangiapane against 49.7 without.