The 2024-25 edition

D · Vegas Golden Knights

Thirty-seven assists in 47 games, on six penalty minutes.

C · St. Louis Blues

Twenty-six goals and 60 assists at 25, on a club that took the thirtieth-largest share of the chances in hockey.

G · Washington Capitals

Undrafted, with 56 career wins against 32 losses.

C · Buffalo Sabres

Six foot six, forty-seven goals two seasons ago, and twenty-nine in seventy-one games.

D · San Jose Sharks

Twenty minutes a night at 22, on the worst club in the league.

D · Toronto Maple Leafs

The highest chance share on the roster, over 360 minutes.

RW · Philadelphia Flyers

Three hundred and ninety-two attempts and 289 shots on goal, the most on the club, for 28 goals.

LW · Ottawa Senators

Fourth in the league in shots on goal and second in penalty minutes, and the only man in the top five of both.

LW · Florida Panthers

Sixty-two assists and 636 career penalty minutes in 590 games, which is the whole player in two numbers.

D · Colorado Avalanche

Plus-156 in 397 games — the best career rate of anybody in this edition — from a fourth-round pick nobody wanted.

C · San Jose Sharks

Thirty-three goals and a career plus-87, arriving on a club that scored 181.

RW · Seattle Kraken

Forty-one points and one power-play goal, from a first-round pick on his second club.

RW · Nashville Predators

Twenty-fourth overall in 2019, 70 points in 148 games, and forty-one of them last season.

RW · St. Louis Blues

Six-six and 225 pounds, with 61 per cent of his attempts from inside twenty feet.

C · Minnesota Wild

Twelve goals and five assists in Colorado, and 164 penalty minutes in 299 career games.

C · New York Rangers

Seventy-seven points at 30, 322 career assists, and 8 per cent of his attempts from beyond forty feet.

D · New York Rangers

Six hundred and four career penalty minutes, 73 goals in 748 games, and a captaincy.

RW · Buffalo Sabres

Six foot four, fifty-nine points and seven game-winners, and the most complete forward on the roster.

D · St. Louis Blues

Forty-two penalty minutes in 26 games, and not one attempt from inside twenty feet.

C · Los Angeles Kings

Fifth overall in 2019, and 32 National Hockey League games by 23.

G · Ottawa Senators

A career .9184 across 247 games, bought to fix a crease that cost twenty-seven goals.

D · Anaheim Ducks

One goal in 136 NHL games, and thirteen conceded above expectation.

D · Utah Hockey Club

The best plus-minus on the club, on twelve penalty minutes.

G · San Jose Sharks

Ninety-one career wins against 42 losses, on a career save percentage of .9051.

G · New York Islanders

Six hundred and eleven games, 286 wins, 41 shutouts, and a .9176 at 36.

G · Tampa Bay Lightning

A career .9167 across 477 games, and an .8998 last season.

RW · Anaheim Ducks

Undrafted, thirty years old, and thirty-seven goals — eighteen per cent of everything this club scored.

G · Utah Hockey Club

An .8979 across 140 games, and never above .8994 in any of his three seasons.

C · Detroit Red Wings

Twelve goals on eighty-six shots at 24, a career minus-42 in 232 games, and a first-round pick's clock running out.

C · Florida Panthers

A third-round pick who did not play a full season until he was 24 and has 127 goals in 330 games since.

LW · New York Rangers

Five hundred and eighty-three games, a career minus-54, and thirteen goals at 30.

C · Winnipeg Jets

A 10.6-foot median attempt — the closest chart of anybody in this edition who took a hundred.

G · Calgary Flames

An .8815 in twenty games, and a career .8929 across seventy-five.

D · Chicago Blackhawks

Six foot six, twenty-three, and the reach is already the best defensive tool on the roster.

D · San Jose Sharks

One thousand two hundred and ninety-six games, every one of them for San Jose.

LW · Columbus Blue Jackets

Six foot five and 234 pounds, eighteen goals as a rookie, and sixty-four per cent of his shots from inside twenty feet.

LW · Washington Capitals

One hundred and ten career goals in 367 games, and two in 21 last season.

RW · New York Islanders

Eleventh overall in 2018, and 67 points in 193 games across five seasons.

LW · St. Louis Blues

The only player in this edition born in Great Britain, and a 16.28 per cent shooter last season.

D · Carolina Hurricanes

Undrafted, ten goals from a third pairing, and two shorthanded goals.

D · San Jose Sharks

Twelve goals from the blue line in 63 games, at 11.1 per cent.

LW · Detroit Red Wings

Ninety-three penalty minutes in thirty-three games — the highest rate of any player in this edition — at seven minutes a night.

G · Nashville Predators

One hundred and thirty career games in six seasons, a career .9059, and a backup's job.

D · Calgary Flames

Two hundred and sixth overall, twenty goals from the blue line, and 22:56 a night.

C · San Jose Sharks

Two hundred and forty-four career assists against 91 goals, and the closest shot chart on the club.

D · Columbus Blue Jackets

Fifty-seven points and 24:27 a night — the largest single source of offence on the club, by a distance.

C · San Jose Sharks

Zero points in 28 games across two clubs, from a man who had 41 at 22.

D · Vegas Golden Knights

Undrafted, with a career plus-43 in 247 games.

RW · Washington Capitals

One thousand four hundred and thirty-two career penalty minutes — the largest total in this edition.

G · Calgary Flames

A hundred and sixty-six pounds — the lightest goaltender in this edition — and the crease.

G · Toronto Maple Leafs

Thirty-six career games, and a .9315 across seven of them two seasons ago.

LW · Colorado Avalanche

Five hundred and two penalty minutes in 476 games, 167 shots, and nine goals.

D · Boston Bruins

Nine points in fifty-three NHL games, no goals, and eighty-three per cent of his attempts from beyond forty feet.

D · Montreal Canadiens

Six foot four, 240 pounds, undrafted, 182 penalty minutes in 95 games, and one shot from inside twenty feet all season.

RW · Utah Hockey Club

Sixty per cent of his attempts from inside twenty feet, at 5-9.

D · Philadelphia Flyers

All 82 games at 22:37 at 23, on a career minus-29 in 169.

C · Boston Bruins

Fifty-nine points and six game-winners, from a 6-4 centre who takes half his shots from inside twenty feet.

D · Boston Bruins

Six foot seven, 255 pounds, seven hundred and one penalty minutes — and the club had nobody like him.

D · Philadelphia Flyers

Undrafted out of Chelyabinsk, and two per cent of his attempts from inside twenty feet.

C · Calgary Flames

Fourteen goals in sixty-three games as a rookie, and a plus-twelve on a club that finished twenty-third.