Players

RW · Columbus Blue Jackets

Forty-four goals in 137 NHL games, sixteen of them on the power play.

C · Nashville Predators

Undrafted, 5-9, 230 goals in 638 games, and forty-two of them last season at 33.

LW · Dallas Stars

Six foot five, undrafted, twenty-two goals, and a plus-22 at fifteen minutes a night.

D · Utah Hockey Club

A career plus-38 in 328 games, and seventeen goals of goaltending against him last season.

G · New Jersey Devils

Four hundred and eighty-five games, a career .9089, and one 34-year-old bought to replace five goaltenders.

RW · Toronto Maple Leafs

Fifty-nine assists in 69 games, and 445 in a career of 576.

LW · Chicago Blackhawks

Nine hundred and ninety penalty minutes, three Stanley Cups, and signed at thirty-six to stand next to a teenager.

LW · New York Islanders

One thousand one hundred and fifty-eight career penalty minutes in 955 games, and 81 goals.

G · Carolina Hurricanes

A career .8867 across fifty-seven games, and a third goaltender's job on a club with four.

D · Chicago Blackhawks

Thirty-seven, blocks shots, and takes 83 per cent of his own attempts from beyond forty feet.

LW · Carolina Hurricanes

Eighty-two games, the ninety-eighth percentile of chances, and twelve goals conceded above expectation.

D · Montreal Canadiens

Twenty-five thirty-three a night, third in the edition, and fifty-one assists from a defenceman on a club that finished 28th.

C · Toronto Maple Leafs

Sixty-nine goals on 540 attempts, both the most of anybody in this edition.

D · New York Islanders

Six foot four, 430 career penalty minutes, and no goals on 36 shots.

D · Boston Bruins

Twenty-four fifty-one a night, thirty-five assists and eighty-six penalty minutes — a number one doing every job at once.

C · Utah Hockey Club

A sixteen-foot median attempt at 6-4, and 26 points in 67 games.

D · Toronto Maple Leafs

Eight goals on 73 shots from the blue line, and the second-best plus-minus on the club.

LW · Seattle Kraken

The only man who played the season in Seattle whose ice finished above what the chances were worth.

C · Nashville Predators

Six foot six, 232 pounds, 100 penalty minutes, and twelve goals from twelve minutes a night.

C · Edmonton Oilers

A hundred assists in 76 games, and the highest five-on-five chance share of any skater in this edition.

D · Tampa Bay Lightning

A career plus-246, the second-largest figure in this edition.

LW · Anaheim Ducks

Five hundred and eight games of honest fourth-line work, and twenty-four of them last season.

C · Buffalo Sabres

Fifty-six point six per cent of the expected goals in Edmonton — the ninety-third percentile, and the best number on this roster by a distance.

C · Toronto Maple Leafs

Undrafted, and 15 goals in 56 games in his first real season at 27.

LW · Washington Capitals

Eighteen goals at 23, on a nineteen-foot median attempt.

D · Vegas Golden Knights

Five hundred and nine penalty minutes, and one power-play goal in 740 games.

C · Anaheim Ducks

Nineteen goals and eighty-six penalty minutes at twenty-one — the hardest young forward on this roster to play against.

D · Florida Panthers

Six foot six, a seventh-round pick, and the seventh percentile of chances in Chicago.

RW · New Jersey Devils

One hundred and ninety-one goals in 541 games, a career minus-65, and a minus-28 last season.

C · New Jersey Devils

Twenty goals and thirteen assists at 22, and a shot median of nineteen feet.

D · Utah Hockey Club

Undrafted, seven seasons, and 47 of his 74 career games came last season.

D · Minnesota Wild

Six hundred and twelve games, 22 goals, and a third pairing that came out even.

G · Columbus Blue Jackets

An .8973, and three straight seasons below .9000.

C · Seattle Kraken

Undrafted, 67 career games across three organisations, and six goals against two assists.

D · Minnesota Wild

Sixteen goals underwater on the goaltending, which was the worst mark on the club and none of it his.

RW · Chicago Blackhawks

Four penalty minutes in seventy-eight games — the second-lowest rate of any skater in this edition who played fifty.

D · Florida Panthers

Six foot six, all 82 games, and the minutes nobody else on a Stanley Cup club wanted.

LW · Washington Capitals

Fifteen goals on 50 shots — 30.0 per cent, the highest rate in this edition among men who took forty.

D · Winnipeg Jets

Not one attempt from inside twenty feet, in 46 games.

C · Vancouver Canucks

A hundred and three points at 31, and 441 career penalty minutes.

D · New York Rangers

Six foot five, 105 points in 294 games, and the worst goal differential on a first-place club.

D · Anaheim Ducks

Twenty-four assists from the blue line at twenty, on ice for fifty goals against.

D · Calgary Flames

Undrafted, six foot four, and the eighty-seventh percentile of chances in twenty-four games.

LW · Washington Capitals

Twenty-one games at 20, from a twentieth-overall pick.

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.

D · Seattle Kraken

Seventy-three points two seasons ago, 33 last season, and 381 penalty minutes in 520 games.

LW · Los Angeles Kings

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

D · Winnipeg Jets

Fifty-nine assists and a plus-34, at twenty-four minutes a night.

D · Tampa Bay Lightning

Twenty minutes a night at 23, and 6-2 and 183 pounds.

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.

D · Vancouver Canucks

Six-eight, 995 games, and 787 penalty minutes.

C · Winnipeg Jets

Seven hundred and eight games across seven organisations.

C · Carolina Hurricanes

Two hundred and thirty-one shots, twenty-four goals, and thirteen goals missing from his ice.

G · Pittsburgh Penguins

Eighteen wins in 38 games on a save percentage one point below the man who lost twenty-five.

LW · St. Louis Blues

Twenty-seven of his 34 career goals came last season, on the eighth-closest forward shot chart in this edition.