The 2024-25 edition

D · Utah Hockey Club

Two hundred and nine career assists in 475 games, and 34 games last season to add to them.

D · Columbus Blue Jackets

Two hundred and twenty-four career assists from the blue line, and a career minus-130.

C · Washington Capitals

Undrafted, and 90 NHL games across eight seasons.

C · Calgary Flames

Thirty-one goals at a 17.32 per cent conversion, and eight penalty minutes all season.

D · Pittsburgh Penguins

Thirty-one games at 26, eight years after his draft, and they are his entire NHL career.

LW · Tampa Bay Lightning

Undrafted, 5-8, and 588 NHL games.

LW · Vancouver Canucks

Undrafted, and 27 points in his sixth season after 31 in his first five.

G · New York Rangers

A career .9209 across 213 games, thirty-six wins, and 0.2 goals of club goaltending underneath it.

C · Minnesota Wild

Four hundred and forty-three games, a career minus-53, and twenty-one of them last season.

D · New Jersey Devils

Eight goals in 312 games, a career plus-23, and the one defenceman here the goaltending did not cost.

C · Columbus Blue Jackets

The tenth percentile of chances, seventeen goals underwater, and he is twenty-one.

C · Nashville Predators

Six hundred and eighteen games, seven career shorthanded goals, and three of them last season.

LW · Edmonton Oilers

A thousand games, 357 goals, a career minus-130, and not one playoff appearance.

G · Edmonton Oilers

Thirty-six wins for the club he grew up in, and a save percentage a little below his own career rate.

D · Nashville Predators

Forty-seven points from the blue line in Carolina, and eleven goals of scoring that never arrived on his ice.

LW · Montreal Canadiens

First overall in 2022, 82 games at 19, and half his attempts from inside twenty feet.

D · Carolina Hurricanes

Eight penalty minutes in eighty-one games — the lowest rate of any defenceman in this edition, and he defends the rush better than almost anybody alive.

D · Dallas Stars

Seven hundred and fifty-four penalty minutes in 694 games, at thirty-five, on the second-best defensive club in the league.

RW · Nashville Predators

Undrafted out of Brainerd, a shot median of sixteen feet, and 60 per cent of them from inside twenty.

C · Chicago Blackhawks

Fifty-eight per cent of the chances in Dallas — the 97th percentile, and the best share on this roster by a distance.

RW · San Jose Sharks

Two hundred and fifty career penalty minutes in 155 games, and nine goals.

RW · New York Rangers

Eight hundred and forty games, a career plus-127, and thirteen career shorthanded goals.

G · Chicago Blackhawks

Undrafted, 5-22-2, and an .8790 — eighty-eight points of save percentage behind the man he split with.

G · New York Islanders

A career .9188 across 192 games, and thirteen goals of goaltending on the twenty-fifth shot share in hockey.

D · Vancouver Canucks

A career plus-71 — the largest figure on this roster.

D · Los Angeles Kings

The only Australian-born player in this edition, and 29 assists in 101 games at 5-11.

RW · Vancouver Canucks

Forty-three points in twelve minutes a night, on the second-lowest chance share of any forward on the club.

C · Carolina Hurricanes

One thousand two hundred and fifty-three games, nineteen career shorthanded goals, and the ninety-ninth percentile of chances at thirty-six.

C · Nashville Predators

Five hundred and fifty-five goals, 214 of them on the power play, and a career 16.66 per cent.

C · Dallas Stars

Five foot eight and 165 pounds — tied for the lightest forward in this edition — with the 99th percentile of chances in twenty-four games.

D · Winnipeg Jets

Six-seven and 231 pounds, and 36 penalty minutes in 25 games.

D · Nashville Predators

Twenty games, plus-9, and the fourth-best chance share on the club in a quarter of a season.

D · Edmonton Oilers

Undrafted, 5-10, 494 games, and a shot-blocking third pairing that came out ahead of its chances.

C · Dallas Stars

Fifty-one goals for and thirty-two against on his ice, against an expectation of 34 and 29 — the best result on the club and none of it repeatable.

C · Utah Hockey Club

Eleven goals and four assists in 81 games.

C · Seattle Kraken

Ninety-five games in four seasons from a second-round pick, on his fourth organisation.

C · Seattle Kraken

A career 15.48 per cent shooter on 575 shots in 495 games — very few of them, and a great many going in.

G · Toronto Maple Leafs

The best save percentage and the best goals-against average of any goaltender who played twenty-five games.

RW · Vegas Golden Knights

A career plus-119 — the largest figure on this roster — from a sixth-round pick.

C · Washington Capitals

Sixty-seven points at 6-4, on half his attempts from inside twenty feet.

C · Anaheim Ducks

Fifth overall in 2011, seven hundred and eighty-two games, and a second-line centre wherever he goes.

D · Montreal Canadiens

Fifty-six games in a first season at 22, and 57 penalty minutes to go with them.

C · San Jose Sharks

Undrafted out of Germany, 6-3, and 66 career penalty minutes in 269 games.

C · Ottawa Senators

Fifty-two assists at 22, and twenty-one fewer goals than the year before.

C · St. Louis Blues

The lowest chance share of anybody on the club, in a fourth-line role at thirteen minutes a night.

C · Vancouver Canucks

Undrafted, Swiss, and 116 points in 283 games.

D · St. Louis Blues

One thousand four hundred and forty-four games, more than anybody in this edition.

C · Montreal Canadiens

Two hundred and eighty-six points in 373 games, the captaincy at 25, and a career minus-76 that is not his.

RW · Carolina Hurricanes

Eight game-winners in fifty-nine games, second overall in 2018, and fifteen goals missing from his ice.

G · Boston Bruins

A career .9186 in 132 games, and this club's entire margin now rests on him alone.

G · Detroit Red Wings

Undrafted, 486 games, 245 wins, 31 shutouts and a career .9135 — signed at 37 to fix a crease ranked 25th.

LW · Seattle Kraken

Undrafted, with 10 career shorthanded goals against 2 on the power play.

D · Toronto Maple Leafs

Undrafted, a career plus-122 in 792 games, and 33 goals in all of them.

RW · Detroit Red Wings

Two hundred and ninety-three goals, 69 power-play goals, and a second Stanley Cup at 32 in a fourth-line role.

G · Columbus Blue Jackets

Six foot five, a .9083, and twenty-four games behind the second-worst defence in hockey.

LW · New Jersey Devils

Eight hundred and fifty-three games, 479 points, and half his attempts from inside twenty feet at 33.

C · Toronto Maple Leafs

A hundred and forty-three career power-play goals, and the closest shot chart of any regular forward on the club.

C · Chicago Blackhawks

Traded away at 21 and signed back at 30, with 47 power-play goals and 304 assists collected in between.

RW · Anaheim Ducks

Thirty-seven goals two seasons ago, twenty-three the next, twenty last year.

LW · St. Louis Blues

Zero power-play goals in 201 career games, from a second-round pick who is now on his second club.