Players

RW · Pittsburgh Penguins

Twenty-eight goals at a twenty-one-foot median, and eleven of them on the power play.

RW · Colorado Avalanche

Fifty-five goals, third in the league, and the best long-range conversion rate of any forward on this roster.

C · Detroit Red Wings

Six-foot-six, and the softest measured shot on the roster at 78.8 mph.

LW · Detroit Red Wings

Fifty-seven points at 19, forty-five at 20, and the 12th percentile in expected-goal share.

RW · Toronto Maple Leafs

A thousand and twenty-three career penalty minutes, and the third-least ground covered of any skater in this book.

LW · Chicago Blackhawks

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

G · Detroit Red Wings

Thirteen seasons, four organisations, and an .8899 at 34.

C · Florida Panthers

The 90th percentile in chance share and a minus-12, which is what happens when the puck ignores the process at both ends.

D · Toronto Maple Leafs

Thirty-seven assists, and no goals at all from inside twenty feet or beyond forty.

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.

D · Washington Capitals

Four goals from seventy point shots, on the softest shot on the blue line.

D · Philadelphia Flyers

A career minus-176 — the worst figure in this book by thirty-nine — in 682 games.

G · Los Angeles Kings

Seven seasons, four organisations, and a .9012 that is the second-best save percentage of his last four years.

LW · Dallas Stars

Forty-six goals, 109 points, and seven of them from beyond forty feet at double the rate a forward manages there.

LW · Columbus Blue Jackets

Undrafted, six seasons in one organisation, and the 3rd percentile in zone starts.

C · Florida Panthers

Undrafted out of Boston University, and the 93rd percentile in chance share on the club that won the Cup the year before.

D · New York Islanders

One hundred shots on goal and two goals, at the 8th percentile of measured top speed.

D · St. Louis Blues

Eight goals in forty-nine games from a third-pair defenceman, and a plus-19 the chances say should have been nothing.

C · Columbus Blue Jackets

Thirty-three assists on a club that scored 214 goals, and the 6th percentile in expected-goal share.

D · Los Angeles Kings

A seventh-round pick with a 94th-percentile registered shot and the best chance share on the blue line.

C · Vegas Golden Knights

The fifth percentile of zone starts, a sixteen-foot median, and five game-winning goals.

D · Pittsburgh Penguins

Undrafted, 312 games as a seventh defenceman, and 79 per cent of his attempts from beyond forty feet.

RW · Pittsburgh Penguins

Twenty goals on the highest attacking-zone start share of any Pittsburgh forward but one, and nothing at all from beyond forty feet.

D · San Jose Sharks

Fifty-four shots on goal from beyond forty feet and not one from inside twenty.

C · Calgary Flames

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

C · Edmonton Oilers

Undrafted, first NHL game at 29, and five hundred of them since.

LW · St. Louis Blues

Nineteen goals at a nineteen-foot median, and 227 for a career nobody talks about.

D · Winnipeg Jets

Six foot four, a 72 per cent wrist-shot share, and sixty-eight attempts in sixty-three games.

G · Toronto Maple Leafs

A .9189 in the season after Washington let him go, and a career .9079 underneath it.

D · Buffalo Sabres

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

D · Ottawa Senators

Seventy-seven games at twenty, twenty-two minutes a night, and the 95th percentile of measured top speed.

D · Washington Capitals

Five foot eleven, twenty-eight assists, and a career high by nineteen points.

G · Philadelphia Flyers

Three wins in twenty games, and an .8800 that is the worst figure in this batch.

D · Philadelphia Flyers

Fourteen hundred five-on-five minutes at the 25th percentile of chance share, and one goal on sixty-one long shots.

G · Nashville Predators

Two thousand and ninety-nine shots — the most in the league and the only goaltender above two thousand — from the shortest man in the book.

D · Montreal Canadiens

Twenty-two minutes a night at 21.0 miles an hour, from the hardest deployment on the club.

D · St. Louis Blues

Thirty-six attacking draws against a hundred and twenty defensive ones, in twenty games.

C · Winnipeg Jets

Forty-two goals on two hundred and six shots, at the fourth-highest career shooting rate in this book.

C · St. Louis Blues

Sixty-five points and a minus-27, at the twelfth percentile of offensive-zone ice time.

D · Nashville Predators

The third-slowest measured skater in the league, and eighty-eight per cent of his shots from beyond forty feet.

C · Arizona Coyotes

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

G · New Jersey Devils

Six-foot-five, eighteen games, and a save percentage a hundred points above the man ahead of him.

D · Winnipeg Jets

Thirty-six goals for on his ice against forty-seven expected, and twenty-four against against forty-three.

D · New York Rangers

Five goals on fifty-five long shots at nearly three times the positional rate, and the worst chance share on the club.

D · Seattle Kraken

Thirty-four points from the third pair, and a slap-shot share of a third that returned the league rate exactly.

C · Seattle Kraken

Twenty-one goals and a minus-17, on a club that outscored its chances by forty.

D · Philadelphia Flyers

A fifth-round pick who took two shots all season from twenty to forty feet.

C · Dallas Stars

Fifty points at 31 — the fifth straight season below the standard he set for a decade.

D · Detroit Red Wings

One hundred and two shots on goal from beyond forty feet and one went in.

D · Tampa Bay Lightning

Sixty-four points, a hundred and fifteen shots from the point, and eight goals out of them.

D · Columbus Blue Jackets

The 98th percentile in expected-goal share, and his ice scored seventeen goals fewer than the chances predicted.

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.

C · Minnesota Wild

Seventy-nine penalty minutes in fifty-nine games at eleven minutes a night, after knees that nearly ended it.

LW · Tampa Bay Lightning

Five-foot-eight, undrafted, and 531 NHL games.

LW · Nashville Predators

Undrafted, five seasons, three organisations, and 119 NHL games at twenty-eight.

G · New York Rangers

Thirty-seven wins and a save percentage tenth of forty-two, a season after the best one in the league.

C · Seattle Kraken

1.44 miles a game — the lowest figure in this book — and one goal in forty-seven games.

D · New Jersey Devils

Fourteen hundred five-on-five minutes, four goals, and eleven goals better than the chances at the attacking end while he was out there.

RW · Anaheim Ducks

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