The 2024-25 edition

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.

G · Montreal Canadiens

A .9028 that was worth more than most .920s, behind the fourth-most dangerous shot diet in hockey.

LW · Los Angeles Kings

Undrafted from Thousand Oaks, thirty-one goals at 5-11, and ten career shorthanded goals in 345 games.

C · Detroit Red Wings

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

D · Los Angeles Kings

Forty-five games in three seasons at 26, and a shot median of fifty-nine feet.

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.

D · New Jersey Devils

Second overall in 2022, 19:52 a night at 19, and a chance share above even on a club that was 21st at suppression.

C · Montreal Canadiens

Fifteen goals in 55 games at a 17.65 per cent conversion, which is not going to happen again.

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 · New Jersey Devils

The 97th percentile of chances in Carolina, on ice that went 41-21, at a median of fifteen feet.

LW · Florida Panthers

Undrafted, five career shorthanded goals, and a job description with one line in it.

C · Edmonton Oilers

A first overall pick who became a 19-minute complementary winger, and 448 career assists.

D · Edmonton Oilers

Thirteen goals of scoring that did not arrive on his ice, and 549 career penalty minutes.

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-seven point six per cent of the expected goals — the ninety-fifth 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.

LW · New Jersey Devils

Two hundred and eighth overall in 2011, 748 games, a career plus-143, and two Stanley Cups.

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

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

RW · Edmonton Oilers

One thousand four hundred and twenty-six career penalty minutes, second in this edition, at 39.

D · New Jersey Devils

The 88th percentile of chances in Carolina, nine seasons of shutdown minutes, and 39 goals in 627 games.

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.

LW · Montreal Canadiens

The fourth-worst chance share in this edition, and the second-largest finishing surplus per minute in it.

D · Chicago Blackhawks

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

G · Edmonton Oilers

A ninth season across six organisations, and the best save percentage of his career at 32.

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.

G · Montreal Canadiens

One hundred and ninety-ninth overall, a career .8938, and a .9097 in twenty-three games that has to mean something.

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.

C · Florida Panthers

Fifty-seven goals and twenty-seven of them on the power play, the most of anybody in this edition.

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.

G · Los Angeles Kings

Undrafted out of Jihlava, and a .9211 in twenty-four games behind a .8904.

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.

LW · Carolina Hurricanes

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

C · Florida Panthers

Undrafted, 5-11, and his ice conceded twelve fewer goals than the chances said it should.

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.

C · Minnesota Wild

Five foot nine, 182 pounds, ninth overall, and 21 goals in a first full season.

RW · Montreal Canadiens

Twenty-three games at 20, and the best chance share on the roster while he was out there.

C · Edmonton Oilers

Undrafted, a first NHL game at 28, and 570 games since.

D · Buffalo Sabres

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

D · Montreal Canadiens

Seven hundred and ninety-five games, 431 penalty minutes, a Stanley Cup, and nine goals of finishing above expectation.

D · Florida Panthers

Undrafted with 661 games and a career plus-102, arriving at 33 to replace two departed defencemen.

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.