Players

D · St. Louis Blues

484 penalty minutes in 533 games, and twenty goals in twelve seasons.

D · Edmonton Oilers

One hundred and fourteen shots on goal from beyond forty feet, three goals, and 54 slap shots.

C · Arizona Coyotes

A minus-32, the first percentile in shot velocity, and fifteen goals from fifteen feet.

D · Ottawa Senators

Five-foot-ten, four goals in 190 games, and 68 shots on goal that produced two.

LW · New Jersey Devils

A sixth-round pick, five-foot-ten, in the 96th percentile of measured speed and scoring from the mid-slot at half again the league's rate.

D · Edmonton Oilers

Eighth overall, two seasons, 69 games, and 530 minutes that describe nothing.

D · Toronto Maple Leafs

The best chance share on the blue line, and seventy-four shot attempts in fifty-eight games.

D · Minnesota Wild

Twenty-three minutes a night, fourteen points, and forty-nine shots from beyond forty feet for two goals.

G · Winnipeg Jets

A .9274 in eleven games, and a career .9075 in a hundred and seventeen.

D · Arizona Coyotes

Six-foot-five, 221 career penalty minutes, and the sixth percentile in five-on-five share.

C · Boston Bruins

Undrafted, 138 NHL games across seven seasons, and a job that exists because somebody has to kill penalties.

D · Buffalo Sabres

Five-foot-nine, 177 pounds, and a minus-24 that the chances say was not his doing.

LW · St. Louis Blues

Twenty-six goals on a hundred and twenty-three shots, and the third-highest shooting percentage in the league.

LW · Carolina Hurricanes

Twenty-three goals and 103 penalty minutes in Toronto, and nineteen of the goals came from inside twenty feet.

LW · Seattle Kraken

Thirty-nine points in forty-nine games, and nothing at all from thirty-two shots beyond forty feet.

D · Carolina Hurricanes

Thirty-eight years old, 82 games, the hardest shot on the club — and most of his goals came from inside forty feet.

D · San Jose Sharks

Sixty-two penalty minutes in forty-eight games, and the first percentile of sprints.

RW · Los Angeles Kings

Fifty-nine shots on goal from inside forty feet, and two goals.

D · Colorado Avalanche

Ten goals in 42 games from a 22-year-old who has not yet played sixty in a season.

G · Edmonton Oilers

A .888 in the first year of a five-year contract.

D · Boston Bruins

Six-foot-five, a plus-44, sixteen points, and a concussion history that shapes the whole file.

D · Washington Capitals

Forty games, a skull fracture, and seventy-eight shots from the point.

C · San Jose Sharks

Undrafted, 330 games as a fourth-line centre, and a shot at the floor of the league's distribution.

C · Anaheim Ducks

Thirty per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, which is the worst figure in the league.

D · Nashville Predators

One hundred and seventy-four pounds and the fourth percentile in top speed, playing eighteen minutes a night.

LW · Vegas Golden Knights

The 83rd percentile of chance share out of the sixth percentile of starts, on a fourteen-foot median.

C · Pittsburgh Penguins

Thirty-eight, the ninth-hardest zone starts in this book, and not one goal from sixty-five shots on goal outside twenty feet.

LW · Philadelphia Flyers

Twelve penalty minutes in eighty-two games, and the 22nd percentile of zone starts in a first full season.

RW · Montreal Canadiens

Twenty-six goals in forty-six games, two penalty minutes, and twenty-four of the goals from inside forty feet.

D · Edmonton Oilers

One goal in 80 games, and none of his fifty shots from beyond forty feet went in.

D · Tampa Bay Lightning

Fifty-eight shots on goal from beyond forty feet and none of them went in, at 230 pounds.

D · Ottawa Senators

Three and three-quarter miles a game, third in the league, from the 40th percentile of measured top speed.

D · Carolina Hurricanes

Undrafted, third pair, and the one Hurricane whose ice finished exactly where the chances said it would.

D · Detroit Red Wings

Minus-31 and the 9th percentile in expected-goal share, in the first year of a four-year contract.

RW · Columbus Blue Jackets

A 101.6 mph shot at the 99th percentile, on 44 shots in 30 games.

D · Columbus Blue Jackets

Twenty-four games, no goals, and fifteen minutes a night on the league's worst blue line.

D · Ottawa Senators

Thirty-three points in forty-eight games, 3.19 miles a game, and one goal on seventy-three shots from beyond forty feet.

C · New York Rangers

Twenty-two goals and nine goals better than the chances at the attacking end, at twenty-three.

C · Tampa Bay Lightning

The 20th percentile of zone starts, a 61st-percentile chance share, and eleven career shorthanded goals.

C · New York Islanders

One hundred and seventy-three attacking-zone starts against 425, at the 94th percentile in bursts of speed at thirty-two.

D · Buffalo Sabres

Thirty-three games, no goals, and the fifth percentile in top speed.

D · Buffalo Sabres

A plus-20 on the best defensive club in hockey, arriving at the worst one.

RW · New York Islanders

Sixteen seasons, 982 games, and eighty-seven attacking-zone starts against 223.

C · Colorado Avalanche

Sixteen seasons, 1,219 games, and he has missed a meaningful stretch of exactly none of them.

D · Vancouver Canucks

The seventh-highest career plus-minus in this book, and one goal on seventy-seven shots from the point.

LW · Calgary Flames

The 96th percentile in five-on-five share, and thirteen goals of scoring that never arrived.

C · Colorado Avalanche

He scored the goal that won a Stanley Cup, and he plays twelve minutes a night.

LW · Detroit Red Wings

Fifty-two points on a Cup club, and a contract to be a second-line centre on a club that is not one.

G · Buffalo Sabres

An .886 in nineteen games, on a club whose whole problem is goaltending.

LW · Carolina Hurricanes

A minus-20 and the 4th percentile in expected-goal share, arriving from Anaheim on a professional tryout of a career.

LW · Winnipeg Jets

Eighty-nine shots from the slot and ten goals, and a hundred and fifty from the mid-slot and twenty-one.

G · Los Angeles Kings

Twenty-four wins in thirty-seven appearances on a .9029, which is the clearest thing this book can show you about what a goaltender's record measures.

C · Detroit Red Wings

Nine goals and 33 assists off an 81.5 mph shot — the 4th percentile.

LW · Vegas Golden Knights

Thirteen goals and five assists, at a 17 per cent career shooting rate on eighty-seven shots.

C · Florida Panthers

The softest registered shot in this chapter, at the 1st percentile, on a ninth season and a sixth organisation.

C · San Jose Sharks

Twenty-seven goals at thirty-three, and a fourteenth season of the same rate.

C · Boston Bruins

Fifty-eight per cent of his shots from inside twenty feet, and a promotion he did not ask for.

C · Buffalo Sabres

Thirty-one goals at twenty-two, and the 87th percentile in sprints.

C · Pittsburgh Penguins

Ninety-three points in his eighteenth season, and every one of those eighteen at a point a game or better.

LW · Arizona Coyotes

Twenty-four goals at 6-4, from a man drafted eleventh overall to hit people.