The 2023-24 edition

LW · Chicago Blackhawks

Twenty-three games, six goals from inside twenty feet, and an 82.0 mph shot at the 4th percentile.

LW · Boston Bruins

Fifty-nine per cent of his shots from inside twenty feet, at thirty-four, after fourteen years of standing in the same place.

C · Calgary Flames

Six-foot-four, twenty points in forty-four games, and the tenth percentile in shot velocity.

D · Buffalo Sabres

Six-foot-four, 229 pounds, twenty-two minutes a night, and the only defenceman here who hurts anybody.

C · Arizona Coyotes

Fifty-eight points in sixty-three games, and the sixth percentile in shot velocity.

C · Calgary Flames

Thirteen goals after twenty-four, and a change of club that nobody asked for.

D · Boston Bruins

The third percentile in top speed and the first in sprints, on a defenceman asked to play nineteen minutes.

RW · Anaheim Ducks

Eleven years, 739 games, and the hardest defensive deployment in the league at thirty-three.

LW · Buffalo Sabres

Thirty-five goals at the ninth percentile in top speed, all of them from inside twenty feet.

D · Carolina Hurricanes

Eighteen goals against a previous career high of nine, and twelve of them came from inside forty feet.

D · Carolina Hurricanes

Eight penalty minutes in 76 games at twenty-two minutes a night.

G · Chicago Blackhawks

Two wins in fifteen games, a .8940, and an undrafted 24-year-old asked to do it behind the worst defence in the West.

D · Arizona Coyotes

Eleventh overall in 2019, fifty NHL games in four seasons, and one goal.

C · Carolina Hurricanes

Thirty-five years old, seventeen goals, and thirteen of them from inside twenty feet.

D · Arizona Coyotes

Undrafted, 5-10, 440 NHL games, and the 30th percentile in top speed.

C · Anaheim Ducks

Forty-one points and a minus-30, with the second-worst five-on-five share of any forward in the league.

RW · Carolina Hurricanes

His best season, ended eighteen games early by a knee.

G · Boston Bruins

A .920 in thirty-seven games behind the best defensive club in hockey, and no job of his own.

D · Calgary Flames

Undrafted, 717 games, the 99th percentile in five-on-five share, and one goal.

C · Carolina Hurricanes

The 92nd percentile in top speed and the 9th in bursts — fast, and almost never in a hurry.

RW · Anaheim Ducks

Thirty-seven goals, then twenty-three, and the club's only forward whose ice broke even.

C · Buffalo Sabres

Forty-seven goals on the hardest shot measured in the league, which is what that shot looks like when it works.

D · Chicago Blackhawks

Six-foot-six, 229 pounds, and the 4th percentile in expected-goal share.

RW · Buffalo Sabres

Thirty-six goals, nine game-winners, and the 97th percentile in sprints over twenty miles an hour at 6-4.

G · Boston Bruins

A .938 and a 40-6-1 record, and neither number is going to happen again.

D · Anaheim Ducks

Sixty-eight NHL games without a goal, and a minus-16 in twenty-three of them.

D · Arizona Coyotes

A waiver claim who led the club's defencemen in five-on-five share and scored thirty assists.

RW · Anaheim Ducks

Twenty-two goals on 231 shots, undrafted, and the worst five-on-five share of any forward in the league.

G · Arizona Coyotes

A .899 on 1,670 shots behind the 29th-best defence in hockey.

G · Calgary Flames

An .892 in twenty-seven games, which is exactly what the man he backs up posted.

D · Calgary Flames

The 96th percentile in five-on-five share, four goals on 160 shots, and a seventh-round pick who plays twenty-one minutes.

C · Boston Bruins

Fifty-seven points, and twenty goals more than the chances on his ice predicted.

D · Calgary Flames

Six-foot-seven, 255 pounds, 576 career penalty minutes, and fourteen goals.

D · Chicago Blackhawks

The 3rd percentile in top speed, the 3rd in bursts, and an 83.5 mph shot at the 7th.

C · Anaheim Ducks

Sixty-five points at twenty-two, and a minus-24 that says more about the club than the player.

LW · Arizona Coyotes

Twenty-seven goals at thirty-one, and the best five-on-five share of any forward on the club he left.