The 2024-25 edition

G · Columbus Blue Jackets

Six foot five, a .9083, and twenty-four games behind the second-worst defence in hockey.

LW · New Jersey Devils

Eight hundred and fifty-three games, 479 points, and half his attempts from inside twenty feet at 33.

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.

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.

RW · Nashville Predators

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

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.

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.

G · New York Islanders

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

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.

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.

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.

RW · New York Islanders

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

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.

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.

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.

D · Montreal Canadiens

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

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.

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.

C · New York Rangers

One hundred and thirteen career power-play goals in 848 games, and a shot median of thirty-four feet.

D · Ottawa Senators

Undrafted out of Khabarovsk, and twenty-one minutes a night of doing exactly one job.

C · Minnesota Wild

Undrafted out of Oslo, 438 career assists, and 51 of them at 36.

LW · Buffalo Sabres

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