The 2024-25 edition

D · Boston Bruins

Six foot five and moves the puck like a smaller man — and twelve fewer goals conceded on his ice than the chances said.

LW · Calgary Flames

Undrafted, five foot nine, and 359 penalty minutes in 257 games.

D · Colorado Avalanche

Forty-seven penalty minutes in thirty-three games, which is the entire scouting report.

C · Anaheim Ducks

Two penalty minutes in forty-six games, and his ice outscored the opposition 32-22 on a team that lost fifty.

D · Dallas Stars

Two goals on seventy-three shots, 83 per cent of them from beyond forty feet, and a plus-13.

G · Buffalo Sabres

Six foot five, a .9102 with five shutouts, and the first season of his career in which the crease was his.

G · Detroit Red Wings

Undrafted, thirty-nine games in six seasons, and then forty-four in one at exactly his career rate.

D · Dallas Stars

Undrafted, no goals in seventy-four games, five in a 353-game career, and a job that has nothing to do with any of it.

D · Detroit Red Wings

Fourteen penalty minutes in seventy-two games, eleven seasons, and two Stanley Cups nobody remembers him for.

C · Colorado Avalanche

One hundred and forty points and 405 shots — more than any player in this edition took — and his own ice still finished fourteen goals under expectation.

D · Colorado Avalanche

Six foot nothing and 187 pounds, 250 assists in 315 games, and the best career plus-minus rate of any defenceman in this edition bar his own partner.

LW · Buffalo Sabres

Thirty-nine point five per cent of the expected goals — the third percentile, and the worst mark on this roster.

D · Colorado Avalanche

Undrafted out of Cornell, a first game at 25, and ten points in twenty-three of them.

D · Colorado Avalanche

Five hundred and seventy-two penalty minutes in 578 games, and the ice where Colorado's entire finishing surplus lived.

RW · Calgary Flames

Six foot five and 240 pounds, twenty-three goals on 113 shots — the second-best conversion in this edition.

LW · Boston Bruins

A thousand and twenty-nine games, a thousand and fifty-one penalty minutes, and sixty-seven points at thirty-five.

RW · Columbus Blue Jackets

Forty-four goals in 137 NHL games, sixteen of them on the power play.

LW · Dallas Stars

Six foot five, undrafted, twenty-two goals, and a plus-22 at fifteen minutes a night.

LW · Chicago Blackhawks

Nine hundred and ninety penalty minutes, three Stanley Cups, and signed at thirty-six to stand next to a teenager.

G · Carolina Hurricanes

A career .8867 across fifty-seven games, and a third goaltender's job on a club with four.

D · Chicago Blackhawks

Thirty-seven, blocks shots, and takes 83 per cent of his own attempts from beyond forty feet.

LW · Carolina Hurricanes

Eighty-two games, the ninety-eighth percentile of chances, and eight goals conceded above expectation.

D · Boston Bruins

Twenty-four fifty-one a night, thirty-five assists and eighty-six penalty minutes — a number one doing every job at once.

LW · Anaheim Ducks

Five hundred and eight games of honest fourth-line work, and twenty-four of them last season.

C · Buffalo Sabres

Fifty-six per cent of the expected goals in Edmonton — the ninety-first percentile, and the best number on this roster by a distance.

C · Anaheim Ducks

Nineteen goals and eighty-six penalty minutes at twenty-one — the hardest young forward on this roster to play against.

G · Columbus Blue Jackets

An .8973, and three straight seasons below .9000.

RW · Chicago Blackhawks

Four penalty minutes in seventy-eight games — the second-lowest rate of any skater in this edition who played fifty.

D · Anaheim Ducks

Twenty-four assists from the blue line at twenty, on ice for fifty goals against.

D · Calgary Flames

Undrafted, six foot four, and the eighty-seventh percentile of chances in twenty-four games.

C · Colorado Avalanche

Fifty-seven points and a career minus-45 — Colorado paid a first-round defenceman to find out which of those is the truth.

C · Columbus Blue Jackets

Fifty-nine points in eighty-three games across three clubs, and the closest thing to a first-line centre this roster has had in three years.

C · Detroit Red Wings

Nine points in sixty-nine games, six career shorthanded goals, and one job done properly.

G · Chicago Blackhawks

A .9072 behind the thirtieth-ranked defence in hockey — exactly his career rate, in the hardest circumstances of his career.

D · Chicago Blackhawks

Blocks shots and clears the front of his own net, which on this roster makes him the only one who does.

C · Carolina Hurricanes

Two hundred and thirty-one shots, twenty-four goals, and thirteen goals missing from his ice.

RW · Colorado Avalanche

Sixteen power-play goals in fifty-four games — the second-best rate in this edition — from a median of sixteen feet.

RW · Colorado Avalanche

Undrafted, 175 pounds, three shorthanded goals, and the best penalty killer on a club that wins fifty games.

D · Boston Bruins

Undrafted, three hundred and seventy-one NHL games, and a seventh defenceman's job at thirty-two.

G · Dallas Stars

Six foot six, a career .9129 across 193 games, and the first season that has not gone forward.

RW · Columbus Blue Jackets

Undrafted, 232 pounds, and 239 penalty minutes in 168 games.

D · Carolina Hurricanes

Fifty-nine per cent of the expected goals — the ninety-eighth percentile — and the only defenceman here who clears a crease by force.

D · Calgary Flames

Undrafted, fifty-one penalty minutes in fifty games, and seventy-two per cent of his attempts from beyond forty feet.

RW · Boston Bruins

A hundred and ten points and 382 shots, and the release from the top of the right circle is the most identifiable skill on this club.

D · Boston Bruins

Fifteen goals above expectation on his ice in five hundred and fifty-eight minutes, and a career minus-59 behind it.

RW · Buffalo Sabres

Twenty-eight goals at twenty-two on 226 shots, and the club's second-most dangerous shooter.

D · Detroit Red Wings

Nine hundred and thirty-seven games, 282 assists, and a career minus-126 — the third-worst figure of any defenceman in this edition.

D · Chicago Blackhawks

Thirty-three games at 22 and the third-lowest chance share of anybody in this edition.

C · Boston Bruins

Fifteen points in thirty-three games at nineteen, and the best chance share of any forward on the roster.

C · Calgary Flames

A hundred and nine penalty minutes at 173 pounds — the highest total on the club, from the lightest forward on it.

D · Buffalo Sabres

Six foot six, first overall, plus-eight at twenty-one — and fifty-nine assists in 163 games.

D · Columbus Blue Jackets

All eighty-two games at 22:10, and six hundred and fourteen career games of it on clubs that concede.

RW · Buffalo Sabres

Nine goals in twenty-seven games at twenty-two, and eighth overall four years ago.

RW · Colorado Avalanche

Six foot four and 228 pounds with a career 16.09 per cent finishing rate across 1,628 shots — the heaviest forward on the roster and the best finisher on it.

C · Detroit Red Wings

Six foot six and 222 pounds, 51 per cent of his shots from inside twenty feet, and the lowest chance share on the club.

LW · Detroit Red Wings

Seventy-two points at twenty-two on a 19.02 per cent conversion — the best young forward in this chapter and the one number in it that will not repeat.

LW · Chicago Blackhawks

A first-round pick, 170 pounds, and a chance share in the 2nd percentile in his third season.

G · Anaheim Ducks

Five hundred and one games, a career .9103, and a third goaltender's job at thirty-six.

LW · Columbus Blue Jackets

One thousand and eleven games, ninety-three career power-play goals, and sixty-five per cent of his shots from inside twenty feet.

LW · Dallas Stars

Eighty points and the 96th percentile of chances, from a second-round pick with a career 14.86 per cent finishing rate.