The 2024-25 edition

LW · Carolina Hurricanes

Undrafted, three hundred and six games, and three career shorthanded goals from a fourth line.

C · Calgary Flames

Undrafted, two hundred and sixty games, and two penalty minutes in thirty-three of them.

C · Carolina Hurricanes

Twenty-fifth overall in 2015, thirty-one points in fifty-nine games, and a career minus-twenty-seven.

D · Buffalo Sabres

Six foot four and 229 pounds, twenty and a half minutes a night, and forty-one games of it.

C · Dallas Stars

Three hundred and fifty-one goals and 3,170 shots across fourteen seasons, and a third-line role at 32.

D · Detroit Red Wings

One hundred and thirteen assists in 246 games at 23, and twenty-two minutes a night against everybody's best line on a club ranked 27th at suppressing chances.

D · Columbus Blue Jackets

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

C · Calgary Flames

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

C · Columbus Blue Jackets

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

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.

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.

G · Chicago Blackhawks

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

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 · 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.

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 · Anaheim Ducks

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

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.

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.

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.

C · Buffalo Sabres

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

D · Colorado Avalanche

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

RW · Buffalo Sabres

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

D · Anaheim Ducks

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

RW · Anaheim Ducks

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

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.

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.

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.

D · Carolina Hurricanes

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

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.

D · Calgary Flames

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

D · Columbus Blue Jackets

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

G · Calgary Flames

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

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.

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.

C · Calgary Flames

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

C · Anaheim Ducks

Sixty-five points at twenty-one, then thirty-one games.

D · Anaheim Ducks

Five foot ten, and nineteen minutes a night in his first twenty-six NHL games.

LW · Buffalo Sabres

Six hundred and ninety-seven games, three clubs in one season, and eighty-one penalty minutes at thirty-two.