Players

C · Winnipeg Jets

Forty-six games, forty-five shots, and no goals.

D · New York Rangers

Forty-two points from the 98th percentile of zone starts, and one goal on seventy-one shots from beyond forty feet.

G · Minnesota Wild

An .8920 in Ottawa, a .9309 in Minnesota, and one summer between them.

D · Tampa Bay Lightning

The 99th percentile of chance share, on the best possession club in hockey, in thirteen and a half minutes a night.

LW · Tampa Bay Lightning

A sixth-round pick, thirty goals, and the softest measured shot on the roster.

D · Anaheim Ducks

Two hundred and four career penalty minutes, seventy-nine per cent of his shots from beyond forty feet, and a seventh-defenceman's job.

D · Vegas Golden Knights

Six foot six, two hundred and forty-five pounds, a 99 mph shot, and no goals from the point.

D · Dallas Stars

Six-foot-seven, a 100.4 mph shot, and one goal on 59 shots from beyond forty feet.

LW · Chicago Blackhawks

A first overall pick and a Hart Trophy, arriving at 32 on his fifth club.

D · New Jersey Devils

One hundred and eighty-two shots on goal from beyond forty feet, second in the league among defencemen, at nearly twice the rate his position returns.

D · Ottawa Senators

Forty per cent of everything he throws is a slap shot, and 105 long shots on goal produced three goals.

D · Calgary Flames

The 98th percentile in top speed, twenty-two minutes a night, and thirty-eight points.

D · Dallas Stars

Eight seasons, 151 games, and not one shot from inside twenty feet all year.

C · Pittsburgh Penguins

Two hundred and thirty-six five-on-five minutes at a 98th-percentile chance share, which is a number and not a finding.

D · Montreal Canadiens

Eighteen and a half minutes a night at twenty-two, and thirty-seven shots from beyond forty feet for nothing.

G · Philadelphia Flyers

A .9069 behind the worst chance profile in the conference, and twelve goals better than the chances on Sanheim's ice alone.

RW · Minnesota Wild

Ninety penalty minutes in fifty-nine games, and sixty-five points two seasons ago.

LW · Montreal Canadiens

Seventy-five per cent of his shots came from inside twenty feet — the most concentrated shot chart in this book.

RW · Philadelphia Flyers

Ninety-five attacking-zone starts against 437 — the third-most extreme deployment in this book, and the second of Boston's three.

LW · New Jersey Devils

A seventh-round pick in his tenth season and sixth organisation, converting from close range at two-thirds the league's rate.

RW · St. Louis Blues

Fifty-four points, a minus-22, and the fifth percentile of top speed.

C · Arizona Coyotes

Nineteen goals on the sixth-percentile shot, all of them from inside the dots.

D · Tampa Bay Lightning

Six-foot-seven, a 101.3 mph shot at the 99th percentile, and four goals from a hundred and eighteen attempts beyond forty feet.

LW · Boston Bruins

A fourth-line winger with the 80th percentile in five-on-five share and the 7th in distance covered.

D · Dallas Stars

Sixty-two assists, and the rare defenceman who scores more from beyond forty feet than inside it.

G · Pittsburgh Penguins

Six-foot-six, thirty-one years old, and eighteen NHL games after ten years of waiting for them.

G · Winnipeg Jets

A .9201 on nineteen hundred and sixty-four shots, the fourth-best in this book.

C · Anaheim Ducks

Twenty-two goals in sixty-two games at thirty-three, on a club that had nothing else in tight.

C · San Jose Sharks

Sixty-three points and a minus-36, on a club whose goaltending cost it forty-two goals.

G · Vegas Golden Knights

Twenty-seven regular-season games, and then the Stanley Cup.

C · Pittsburgh Penguins

Eleven points in twenty-six games, and the fifth percentile of shot speed.

C · Dallas Stars

Thirty-nine goals from inside forty feet on 167 shots — 23.35 per cent, the best close-range conversion in five clubs.

C · New Jersey Devils

The best chance share on the club that led the league in chances, taken from the wrong end of the rink.

G · St. Louis Blues

Six-foot-five, eight NHL games in two seasons, and a .9050 in six of them.

C · San Jose Sharks

A hundred-mile-an-hour shot, fifty-four slap shots, and not one goal from forty-eight attempts beyond forty feet.

LW · Vancouver Canucks

Five foot nine, twenty-five games, and a season spent in the minors.

D · Detroit Red Wings

Plus-15 in Toronto, thirty-four shots from beyond forty feet, and no goals.

LW · Edmonton Oilers

Three goals in 51 games from the fourteenth pick of the 2020 draft.

RW · Toronto Maple Leafs

Thirteen points in thirty-seven rookie games, on the second-softest shot in this book.

RW · New York Islanders

Fifty games, no penalty minutes at all, and seven goals fewer than his ice deserved.

C · New York Islanders

Thirty-eight goals and a career minus-69, converting from twenty to forty feet better than he does from the crease.

C · Vegas Golden Knights

Twenty-seventh overall in 2016, and thirty-one goals in two hundred and seventy-nine games.

D · Vancouver Canucks

Five goals from eighty-seven point shots, and a career minus-88 in three hundred games.

LW · Calgary Flames

A hundred and fifteen points in Florida, fifty-five in Calgary, and the 23rd percentile in top speed.

C · New Jersey Devils

Ninety-nine points and six penalty minutes, from a 175-pound centre in the 98th percentile of ground covered.

D · Vancouver Canucks

Sixty-nine assists at five foot ten, and a chance share exactly at the league average underneath them.

LW · Calgary Flames

Three goals, no assists in thirty-seven games, and the second-lowest distance covered of any forward in this book.

G · Detroit Red Wings

A .9191 in St. Louis, a contract, and then a .8958 in 56 games.

G · Detroit Red Wings

Ten seasons, 153 games, and never once the man the club wanted.

D · Vegas Golden Knights

A career minus-75, and the 95th percentile of zone starts to keep it from getting worse.

LW · Edmonton Oilers

A median shot distance of twelve feet — the closest of any forward in this book.

LW · Winnipeg Jets

Undrafted, four hundred and twenty games, and eleven goals from fifty-six slot shots.

G · Arizona Coyotes

A .907 in twenty-seven games, and a career that stopped for two years while he got well.

LW · Nashville Predators

Three shorthanded goals from eighty-seven attacking-zone draws against a hundred and ninety-three defensive ones.

C · Edmonton Oilers

Seven wrap-arounds out of 79 shots, and three shorthanded goals.

C · Toronto Maple Leafs

Twenty goals on a hundred and six shots, at eighteen point nine per cent.

G · Pittsburgh Penguins

A .9095 in forty-seven games, and a seventh season without once reaching sixty.

RW · Carolina Hurricanes

Fifty-six per cent of his shots from inside twenty feet, and an ice that scored eleven fewer goals than it should have.

LW · Tampa Bay Lightning

A hundred and seven penalty minutes, undrafted, and five goals from fifty-nine shots inside twenty feet.

C · Columbus Blue Jackets

Twenty-six goals in 68 games and minus-32 — the captain's season in two numbers that cannot both be about him.