Players

D · New Jersey Devils

The hardest zone starts of any Devils defenceman, twenty-one minutes a night, and a sixth-round pick Edmonton never played.

G · Calgary Flames

A .922 and a Vezina nomination one season, an .892 the next, on a club that was second in shot attempts.

RW · Toronto Maple Leafs

Ninety-nine points, four shorthanded goals, and above the positional rate from all three distances.

LW · Minnesota Wild

The slowest measured forward in the league, and the most penalty minutes in it.

LW · New York Islanders

One thousand one hundred and fifteen career penalty minutes, the fourth-most in this book, and eleven minutes a night.

G · Columbus Blue Jackets

The worst save percentage in the league last season, and the best one the season before.

D · Vegas Golden Knights

A hundred-mile-an-hour shot, fifty-two shots from the point, and no goals.

LW · Carolina Hurricanes

The 98th percentile in top speed and the 40th in distance — fast in bursts, on a fourth-line shift.

D · Montreal Canadiens

Twenty-four and a half minutes a night, thirty-four points in forty-eight games, and the seventh-most ground covered in the league.

C · Toronto Maple Leafs

Forty goals on 327 shots, and below the league rate from inside twenty feet.

D · New York Islanders

Twenty-one minutes a night, eighty-three penalty minutes, and the 17th percentile of zone starts.

D · Boston Bruins

Fifty-two points in sixty-seven games, and the 80th percentile in zone starts.

C · Arizona Coyotes

Six-foot-four, sixty-four penalty minutes, and the sixth percentile in shot velocity.

D · Toronto Maple Leafs

Twelve hundred and ninety-two minutes, a career high in points, and an on-ice goal record sixteen better than the chances.

LW · Seattle Kraken

Forty goals at 19.1 per cent, and roughly double the league rate from every distance on the ice.

C · Nashville Predators

Thirty attacking-zone draws against a hundred and twenty-seven defensive ones, at six foot six.

C · Edmonton Oilers

One hundred and fifty-three points, and nineteen shots on goal from beyond forty feet all season.

D · Nashville Predators

Twelve goals better at the defensive end than the chances deserved, and 854 games behind him.

LW · Anaheim Ducks

Traded mid-season into the worst club in hockey, and seven career shorthanded goals.

C · New Jersey Devils

Two hundred and seventeen attacking-zone starts against 392 in his own end, at the 92nd percentile in bursts and the 19th in ground covered.

C · Edmonton Oilers

4.16 bursts over twenty miles an hour a game — eighth in the league, on a fourth line.

D · Vegas Golden Knights

Zero bursts above twenty miles an hour in eighty-two games, and the slowest top speed in this book.

C · Anaheim Ducks

Forty-three points at twenty, and the ninth percentile in top speed.

D · Chicago Blackhawks

One goal on fifty-six shots, and an 82.2 mph shot at the 5th percentile.

C · Boston Bruins

Undrafted, 203 games over nine seasons, and 1.57 miles a game — the 1st percentile in distance covered.

RW · New Jersey Devils

Forty goals and a minus-19, on the most tracked shot attempts of any Devil.

C · New Jersey Devils

Twenty-three of his twenty-seven goals came from inside twenty feet, at a rate twelfth-best in the league.

D · Minnesota Wild

Twenty and a half miles an hour and one burst of speed every fourteen games, at fifteen minutes a night.

G · Columbus Blue Jackets

A save percentage that has fallen in each of his four seasons, from .9227 to .8763.

C · Colorado Avalanche

Forty-four NHL games and no assists in any of them.

D · Minnesota Wild

A two-hundred-and-tenth-overall pick San Jose gave fourteen games in three years, playing nineteen minutes a night on a playoff club.

RW · Vancouver Canucks

Two penalty minutes in forty-six games, and fifteen goals of finishing on his ice in six hundred minutes.

D · Florida Panthers

Six foot six, and the eleventh percentile for registered shot speed.

LW · Washington Capitals

Eleven goals from forty slot shots, and nothing at all from anywhere else.

D · New Jersey Devils

A 101.1 mph shot, forty per cent of his attempts slapped, and eighty-three long shots on goal at twice the rate his position returns.

C · Vancouver Canucks

Eight goals from beyond forty feet on fifty-seven shots, which is the second-best long-range rate in this book.

D · New York Rangers

Six-foot-five at the 75th percentile of measured speed and the 86th of ground covered, on the most five-on-five ice of any Ranger.

D · Boston Bruins

The first percentile in five-on-five share, on the worst club in the Western Conference.

C · Buffalo Sabres

Forty-four assists in a sixth season, from a player the club had almost given up on.

C · Montreal Canadiens

Five straight twenty-goal seasons in Calgary, and twenty-five games in the last one.

G · Montreal Canadiens

Three seasons under .8940 and then a .9011, behind the club that conceded the third-most goals in the league.

D · Florida Panthers

Seventy-three points and a hundred and seven penalty minutes — nobody else on a blue line in this league did both.

LW · Los Angeles Kings

One hundred and sixty-three shots and ten goals, and his ice scored twenty-four against an expectation of thirty-four.

D · Winnipeg Jets

Sixty assists, a career high by thirty-nine points, and 3.56 miles a game at a top speed in the twelfth percentile.

D · Arizona Coyotes

Twenty-one minutes a night at twenty-three, on a second-round pick nobody else wanted.

C · Tampa Bay Lightning

The 95th percentile of top speed, the sixth percentile of zone starts, and eight goals.

G · Chicago Blackhawks

A .8942 across 39 games, and the club's other goaltender finished on .8940.

D · Chicago Blackhawks

Three bursts above twenty miles an hour in eighty games, and nineteen minutes a night in the hardest role on the club.

D · Vancouver Canucks

Six foot eight, a 98 mph shot, and one goal on a hundred shots.

C · Winnipeg Jets

The eleventh-softest shot in this book, and the 87th percentile of chance share.

C · Carolina Hurricanes

Seventy-one points, thirty more than he had ever managed, and the only man on the club who scores from range.

G · Pittsburgh Penguins

One .9321 season in Carolina, and two below-average ones behind rebuilding clubs since.

LW · St. Louis Blues

Twenty-one years old, forty-three games, and a minus-19 out of neutral zone starts.

C · New York Islanders

Six goals on thirty-three shots from beyond forty feet, at four times the rate his position returns.

C · Montreal Canadiens

The 96th percentile in bursts of speed, and thirty points from thirteen minutes a night.

RW · Colorado Avalanche

Two penalty minutes in 53 games from a 6-4 winger playing twenty a night.

RW · Winnipeg Jets

Ninety-eight shots on goal from inside twenty feet, on an eighteen-foot median.

LW · Pittsburgh Penguins

1.6 sprints a game on 2.13 miles of ice — the shortest, fastest shifts on the roster.

RW · Carolina Hurricanes

Thirteen goals, and every one of them from inside twenty feet.

LW · New Jersey Devils

Thirty-nine attacking-zone starts against 272 in his own end — the most extreme deployment in this book.