The 2024-25 edition

D · New York Islanders

One hundred and four career assists against 18 goals, and a fourth-round pick's ninth 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.

D · Philadelphia Flyers

A career minus-182, the worst figure in this edition by fifty-two goals, and 57.2 per cent of the chances last season.

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.

D · New York Islanders

Plus-23 on a club that was outshot by all but seven others, and 2 per cent of his attempts from inside twenty feet.

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.

D · New York Rangers

Undrafted out of San Diego, twelve seasons, 364 games, and not one attempt from inside twenty feet.

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 · Ottawa Senators

Twenty-three minutes a night at 21, and the best defenceman on the club by a distance.

D · Philadelphia Flyers

Forty-four points and twenty-four minutes a night, and twenty-one goals of goaltending lost behind him.

G · Nashville Predators

Five foot eleven, sixty-four games, and a career .9170 across 350 of them.

D · Montreal Canadiens

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

D · Nashville Predators

Nine hundred and ninety-six games, 807 penalty minutes, and forty-three goals in sixteen seasons.

D · Florida Panthers

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

D · New York Rangers

All 82 games at 23 on a first-place club, and nine goals of goaltending against him.

D · Philadelphia Flyers

Two hundred and sixty-three career penalty minutes, eight career goals, and a plus-9 on a club that was outscored.

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.

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 · 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 · Los Angeles Kings

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

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 · 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 · 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 · Ottawa Senators

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

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.

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.