Players

C · Detroit Red Wings

Five-foot-nine, undrafted, born in Detroit, and 171 games across five organisations.

G · Seattle Kraken

A seventh-round pick, nineteen NHL games in four seasons, and a .9000 in five of them.

C · Montreal Canadiens

Third overall in 2019, ninety-four shots from inside forty feet, and the seventh percentile for registered shot speed.

LW · Dallas Stars

Seven goals in 73 games, after five seasons of twenty or more.

D · Buffalo Sabres

Seventy-three points at twenty-three, 3.80 miles a game — the most of any skater in the league — and the 16th percentile in top speed.

C · Los Angeles Kings

The 85th percentile in chance share, the 33rd in zone starts, and a minus-8 that belongs to the percentages.

D · Carolina Hurricanes

Forty-two points and a minus-27 in Philadelphia, a year after fifty-one points in Carolina, and now back.

RW · Detroit Red Wings

Twenty-seven goals and minus-31, and not one of them from beyond forty feet on 53 attempts.

LW · Boston Bruins

Twenty-seven goals on the fifth-percentile shot, and the second-best five-on-five share of any forward in this book.

C · Dallas Stars

Twenty-seven NHL games in two years, then all 82 and fifty-four penalty minutes.

D · Winnipeg Jets

The lowest career shooting rate of any defenceman in this book, and ninety-nine assists.

G · Vancouver Canucks

A .9015 in a thirty-two-game season, behind the twenty-ninth-ranked goaltending in the league.

D · Edmonton Oilers

Six-foot-seven, drafted 183rd, and a first NHL game at 26.

LW · Philadelphia Flyers

One hundred and thirty-six penalty minutes, second in the league, and 1.68 miles a game.

G · Vancouver Canucks

Undrafted, a career .9121, and five seasons of being the other goaltender.

C · Minnesota Wild

Three shorthanded goals and the lowest chance share of any Minnesota forward.

C · Chicago Blackhawks

24.1 mph at the 99th percentile, thirty points, and an ice that conceded 67 goals.

D · Winnipeg Jets

Sixty-five shots from the point and no goals, and twenty-nine in eight hundred and fifteen games.

D · New York Islanders

One hundred and fifty-seven shots on goal from beyond forty feet, fourth in the league among defencemen, at twenty-three.

C · Toronto Maple Leafs

The closest shooting line to the league rate in this entire book, at all three distances.

C · Chicago Blackhawks

Plus-16 in Seattle on an ice that beat its expectation by ten, and the 9th percentile in distance covered.

G · Anaheim Ducks

Nineteen games at twenty-two behind a club that conceded 338 goals, and a .901 that is better than it looks.

D · Los Angeles Kings

Twenty-six minutes a night, more than any man who played a full season, at the ninth percentile in top speed.

C · Washington Capitals

Seventy-four attacking draws against three hundred and seventy-seven defensive ones — the second-hardest deployment in this book.

C · Edmonton Oilers

Fifty-one goals from inside forty feet on 222 shots, and one from beyond it.

LW · Colorado Avalanche

Two goals on 69 shots, and 27 assists — the widest split between passing and finishing in this edition.

C · Carolina Hurricanes

The 100th percentile in expected-goal share, and two goals on 65 shots.

C · Calgary Flames

The 97th percentile in sprints and the 96th in top speed, on a club's third line.

C · Los Angeles Kings

Third overall in 2016, two organisations that traded him, and a median shot from eighteen feet.

C · Dallas Stars

Bought out at 32, one year after a 43-goal season.

LW · San Jose Sharks

Thirty-one goals two seasons ago, twenty games last season, and nothing at all from nineteen shots inside twenty feet.

RW · Calgary Flames

Undrafted, seven goals in twenty-seven games, and no evidence that it means anything.

RW · Minnesota Wild

Nine goals and one assist, and three of the nine were game-winners.

D · Arizona Coyotes

A shot measured at 101.6 mph, four goals, and thirteen goals of scoring that never arrived.

D · Seattle Kraken

One goal from eighty shots on goal, and 1,424 five-on-five minutes of not being noticed.

D · Seattle Kraken

Sixty-four points from a defenceman, none of them on the power play, and 7.22 per cent from beyond forty feet.

D · Arizona Coyotes

The 94th percentile in top speed and the 13th in sprints — fast, and almost never in a hurry.

C · Montreal Canadiens

A 77.0 mph shot — the third-softest registered in the league — from the second-hardest deployment in it.

RW · Seattle Kraken

Forty-three assists at thirty-two, a career high, in his nine hundred and fortieth game.

D · Washington Capitals

Twenty-three more goals allowed than the chances called for, and one goal from forty-eight point shots at 101 mph.

LW · Winnipeg Jets

A hundred and sixty-eight pounds, 3.2 bursts a game, and forty-five games.

C · Vegas Golden Knights

Four point six bursts above twenty miles an hour a game, and six penalty minutes in sixty-seven.

C · Minnesota Wild

Fifty shots on goal from beyond forty feet, no goals, and a median shot of seventeen feet.

D · Florida Panthers

First overall in 2014, nine seasons in one place, and he has not played eighty games since 2018-19.

D · Edmonton Oilers

Forty-seven slap shots that produced three goals, and the only Edmonton blue line pairing whose ice beat its expectation at the back.

D · Florida Panthers

Sixth overall in 2009, 902 games, and a minus-24 in fifty-four before Vancouver moved on from the contract.

C · Pittsburgh Penguins

Eighty-four games of the checking-centre job, at the eleventh percentile of attacking-zone starts.

D · Los Angeles Kings

Eighty NHL games across five seasons and eight years, and no goals in any of them.

LW · New York Islanders

Six-foot-six, the 96th percentile in bursts of speed, and the best chance share on the club out of the 16th percentile of zone starts.

RW · Chicago Blackhawks

The 3rd percentile in expected-goal share, and ten points in 66 games.

LW · Edmonton Oilers

Forty goals in 355 games, and the 4th percentile in expected-goal share.

G · Philadelphia Flyers

Twelve games, an .8991, and the only Philadelphia goaltender under twenty-five who has not been given the job.

RW · Nashville Predators

One hundred and ten attacking-zone draws against forty-eight defensive ones — the 99th percentile, at twenty-one.

C · Montreal Canadiens

Two goals on fifty-five shots, and seventeen assists.

C · Tampa Bay Lightning

Three clubs in one season, sixty-three penalty minutes, and twelve wrap-arounds.

C · Detroit Red Wings

Twenty-eight games, and the 2nd percentile in top speed for a player whose game was speed.

D · Nashville Predators

One hundred and one shots on goal and two goals, seventy-two of them from beyond forty feet for nothing.

C · Dallas Stars

Eight seasons in one organisation as the man who takes the draw against the other club's best line.

LW · Philadelphia Flyers

Fifteen goals and the worst chance share of any Flyers forward who played a full season.

RW · New York Islanders

Eighty-seven NHL games at twenty-eight, and forty-nine of them last season.