Players

RW · Carolina Hurricanes

Sixty-four per cent of his shots from inside twenty feet, which is the highest share on a club built to get there.

D · St. Louis Blues

A hundred and two shots on goal from beyond forty feet, two goals, and fifty points anyway.

D · Washington Capitals

The third-fastest skater in this book and the fastest defenceman in it.

D · San Jose Sharks

Twenty-one and a half minutes a night at the 24th percentile of chance share, and a minus-31 to go with it.

LW · Los Angeles Kings

Eighty-five points in Minnesota and seventy-two in his first Los Angeles season, forty-nine of them assists.

RW · Detroit Red Wings

Seven seasons in Arizona, 56 goals, and thirty-two shots from beyond forty feet without one.

D · Tampa Bay Lightning

Seventh overall in 2014, nine goals in 244 games, and no shots on goal that went in last season.

G · Minnesota Wild

Nineteen seasons, three Stanley Cups, a Vezina at thirty-six, and a .9078 at thirty-eight.

LW · Edmonton Oilers

The 94th percentile in expected-goal share, and thirteen goals to show for it.

LW · Minnesota Wild

Ninety-seven penalty minutes in sixty-five games, and twenty-one points.

LW · Chicago Blackhawks

Plus-18 in Boston on an ice that beat its expected goals by eighteen — and almost none of it was his.

D · New Jersey Devils

The second-slowest measured skater in this book, and one burst above twenty miles an hour in fifty games.

D · Boston Bruins

Two shorthanded goals from a defenceman who took thirty-eight shots all season.

G · Ottawa Senators

A .9021 on a club that allowed the fifteenth-most chances in the league.

LW · Nashville Predators

Forty-two goals in 2021-22, nineteen in fifty games in this one, and 511 points in a Nashville shirt.

D · Florida Panthers

A fifth-round pick Vancouver traded and Chicago waived, playing 23:26 a night on a Stanley Cup Final club.

C · Columbus Blue Jackets

A first-round pick with 89 games in four years and a minus-27 on his ice.

D · Anaheim Ducks

Thirteen seasons and 893 games in one uniform, 24:10 a night on the worst club in hockey, and a minus-23.

D · New York Rangers

Sixty assists and twenty-four minutes a night, from the 4th percentile of measured top speed and the 93rd of ground covered.

C · Boston Bruins

Seventeen goals and six game-winners in under twelve minutes a night.

D · Vancouver Canucks

Sixty-five NHL games in five seasons, and a 96 mph shot from a hundred and eighty-five pounds.

C · Philadelphia Flyers

Nineteen goals in a fourth season, on the 87th percentile of measured top speed and a career minus-26.

LW · Florida Panthers

Fifty-seven penalty minutes in thirty-five games at under nine minutes a night, and the lowest distance reading on the club.

C · Edmonton Oilers

A thousand games, sixteen seasons, and a fourth separate spell in Edmonton.

RW · Montreal Canadiens

Two thirty-goal seasons behind him, and four straight years of missing at least a quarter of the schedule.

RW · Vancouver Canucks

The second-lightest skater in this book, and a top speed in the 17th percentile.

C · Minnesota Wild

Four shorthanded goals — only two men in the league scored more — and ten penalty minutes in eighty-two games.

LW · Columbus Blue Jackets

From plus-64 and 115 points to minus-33 and 74, in one summer and one move.

RW · New York Islanders

The 97th percentile in measured top speed and the bottom of the league in ground covered — the widest gap between the two in this book.

D · Los Angeles Kings

The fastest defenceman on this roster at the 93rd percentile, and the only one whose chance share was under fifty.

C · Boston Bruins

The 91st percentile in shot velocity and the 4th in distance covered — a hard shot on a man who barely moves.

G · Colorado Avalanche

Forty wins, tied for the most in the National Hockey League, from an undrafted goaltender in his first year as a starter.

G · Anaheim Ducks

A .899 behind the worst defensive club in hockey, and a career .912 that says it is not him.

D · Calgary Flames

Ninety-five per cent of his shots from beyond forty feet, and twenty-seven penalty minutes in twenty-three games.

D · Toronto Maple Leafs

Forty years old, undrafted, 1,102 games, and the 92nd percentile of chance share.

D · Colorado Avalanche

Five-foot-ten and 170 pounds, twenty-one minutes a night, and thirty-one assists off a shot nobody fears.

C · Buffalo Sabres

Ten goals, and twelve goals of scoring that never arrived on his ice.

RW · Ottawa Senators

A thousand and two points in eleven hundred games, and the third-best close-range rate in the league at thirty-five.

LW · Vancouver Canucks

Two hundred and thirty-one games across seven seasons and four clubs, and a call-up that worked.

C · Nashville Predators

The best chance share of any Nashville forward, and a sixth-overall pick Vegas gave up on at twenty-two.

C · Tampa Bay Lightning

Undrafted, 706 games, and twenty-six tip-ins out of a hundred and eight attempts.

D · Minnesota Wild

Sixteen seasons, 1,042 games, and forty-four shots from beyond forty feet for no goals.

C · New York Rangers

Undrafted, 492 games, and the 3rd percentile of measured shot speed.

D · Detroit Red Wings

Sixty slap shots — the most of any player in five clubs — and five goals from beyond forty feet.

C · Seattle Kraken

Five-foot-nine, undrafted, 76 penalty minutes, and nine different kinds of shot.

C · San Jose Sharks

Thirty-one assists and ten goals, and nothing at all from beyond forty feet.

D · Pittsburgh Penguins

Six-foot-five, plus-34, and a top speed in the second percentile of the league.

LW · Buffalo Sabres

Six-foot-six, 231 pounds, eleven points, and a club that traded for him anyway.

LW · Calgary Flames

A hundred and fourteen penalty minutes in sixty-one games, in nine minutes a night.

LW · Toronto Maple Leafs

The thirteenth-fastest skater in this book, on thirteen minutes a night.

C · Ottawa Senators

Twenty games, 56 per cent of the expected goals, and nothing else yet.

G · Seattle Kraken

A .9118 across 308 games, and .8891 and .8946 in the two since he arrived in Seattle.

RW · Los Angeles Kings

Twelve goals in fifty-seven games from ten minutes a night, all of them from inside forty feet.

D · Boston Bruins

Five-foot-ten and 180 pounds, 382 NHL games, and a plus-46 on the softest usage on the blue line.

D · Anaheim Ducks

Eight hundred and forty-three career penalty minutes, the hardest shot in the league by two hundredths of a mile an hour, and two goals.

D · Columbus Blue Jackets

Seventy-seven shots on goal from beyond forty feet and none of them went in — second in the league.

RW · Arizona Coyotes

Ninth overall, six goals in thirty-three games at nineteen, and four of them on the power play.

C · Pittsburgh Penguins

Thirty-six goals from a median of eighteen feet, and 131 shots on goal from inside twenty.

D · Montreal Canadiens

A 24.2 mph top speed at twenty-one, at 20:31 a night, and a minus-19.

RW · Nashville Predators

The fifth-most bursts of speed in the league, a hundred-mile-an-hour shot, and seven goals.