Players

D · Colorado Avalanche

Thirty-three games back after two years away, at 27, and still skating like the man who had 31 points.

RW · St. Louis Blues

Three hundred and sixty-one attempts, the most on the club, at a median of thirty-two feet.

RW · Columbus Blue Jackets

Thirty-eight point six per cent of the expected goals — the second percentile, and the worst mark on this roster.

D · Anaheim Ducks

Nineteen minutes a night in a first full season, and a minus-24 to show for it.

RW · Los Angeles Kings

Eighty-one games at 22 in a first full season, and eleven goals of scoring that did not arrive.

C · Buffalo Sabres

Thirteen goals on seventy-eight shots, and five career shorthanded goals from a fourth line.

LW · New York Rangers

First overall in 2020, and twenty-eight goals in the fourth season, which is when it finally arrived.

D · Detroit Red Wings

No goals in a hundred career games, and the second-best chance share on this roster.

G · Vancouver Canucks

Undrafted, and a .9050 across 112 games and three organisations.

C · Washington Capitals

Eight goals in 51 games at 22, from a first-round pick.

C · Detroit Red Wings

Thirty-three goals and fourteen on the power play in sixty-eight games, from a Michigan captain with a career minus-87.

D · Seattle Kraken

Eight hundred and forty-eight games and not one power-play goal in any of them.

C · Philadelphia Flyers

Nine career shorthanded goals, 365 penalty minutes, and the hardest starts on a club that was sixth in the league.

C · Minnesota Wild

Sixty games in Boston on the nineteenth percentile of chances, and ten points to show for it.

D · Nashville Predators

Ninety-eight penalty minutes in 79 games, on a club that spent the ninth-most time shorthanded in hockey.

C · New Jersey Devils

Seventeenth overall in 2013, 524 games, and 120 points to show for all of it.

RW · Anaheim Ducks

Six foot five, eleven goals, two of them shorthanded — and fourteen penalty minutes all year.

D · St. Louis Blues

Fourteen penalty minutes in 82 games at 22:22, and the best plus-minus on the club.

LW · New York Islanders

A shot median of twelve feet with 68 per cent from inside twenty, and 260 career goals from that spot.

LW · Colorado Avalanche

Fifty-seven per cent of his shots from inside twenty feet, and the highest chance share on a fifty-win club.

D · Pittsburgh Penguins

Eighty-two games at 24:41 in his eighteenth season, and not one power-play goal in any of them.

C · Boston Bruins

Undrafted, a hundred and twenty-nine NHL games across six seasons, and a thirteenth forward's job.

G · Buffalo Sabres

Two hundred and twelfth overall, an enormous college reputation, and an .8994 in twenty-three games.

C · Los Angeles Kings

Nine hundred and seventy-four games, eleven career shorthanded goals, and a seventeenth season at 37.

D · Toronto Maple Leafs

Seventeenth overall in 2017, and 51 assists in 196 games.

D · Tampa Bay Lightning

Not one attempt from inside twenty feet in 37 games, and a minus-15.

D · Dallas Stars

Twelve penalty minutes in all eighty-two games, five goals, and a plus-17 on twenty and a half minutes a night.

G · Washington Capitals

Six shutouts — tied for the most of any goaltender in this edition — from a man nobody drafted.

D · New York Rangers

Ten goals in 333 games, a career plus-99, and the largest finishing surplus on a first-place club.

C · Boston Bruins

Five hundred and fifty-seven points, two clubs in one season, and the first-line centre Boston has needed for two years.

D · Boston Bruins

Plus-eighteen at twenty-three minutes a night, and thirteen fewer goals conceded than the chances against him predicted.

C · Pittsburgh Penguins

Undrafted at 5-9, with 154 penalty minutes in 320 games and more career shorthanded goals than power-play ones.

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.

C · Toronto Maple Leafs

A seventh-round pick, 6-4, and a sixteen-foot median attempt.

C · Winnipeg Jets

Six-five, 392 career penalty minutes, and 11 shorthanded goals.

C · Nashville Predators

Undrafted out of Trail, 51 career games at 29, and a fourth line in Minnesota.

D · Colorado Avalanche

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

C · Florida Panthers

A third-line centre at 22 on a Stanley Cup club, with a career plus-53 in 216 games.

C · Anaheim Ducks

Two penalty minutes in forty-six games, and his ice came out 14-17 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.

C · Florida Panthers

Ten goals of scoring that never arrived on a third line that was winning its minutes.

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.

LW · Utah Hockey Club

Forty assists in all 82 games, on eight penalty minutes.

LW · New Jersey Devils

Three hundred and sixty-eight career penalty minutes in 265 games, at four minutes and fifty seconds a night.

C · Ottawa Senators

Undrafted, 6-4 and 226, and 302 penalty minutes in 216 games at six and a half minutes a night.

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.

C · New York Islanders

Undrafted out of Verona, New Jersey, and 32 games at 25.

D · Seattle Kraken

Nine assists and no goals in 30 games, from a third-pairing defenceman on his third organisation.

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 two 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.

C · Pittsburgh Penguins

Two goals short of five hundred, with the third-most career points, power-play goals and penalty minutes in this edition.

LW · Washington Capitals

A sixth-round pick with 109 goals in 417 games, at 5-10.

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.