The 2025-26 edition

C · Colorado Avalanche

26 goals at 33, acquired for the second line the club has not had since Nazem Kadri left, and a 49.5 per cent chance share that says the job was harder than the total.

D · New Jersey Devils

27 games at 21 and a 39 per cent chance share — the 1st percentile in the league.

C · Mighty Ducks of Anaheim

20 NHL games, 4 goals, and a first look at a 24-year-old the organisation has been patient with.

C · Montreal Canadiens

26 points and a minus-21, and a 50.8 per cent chance share that says the rating is not his.

RW · Colorado Avalanche

21 goals in 43 games, which is the best rate on the club and, again, less than half a season of them.

RW · Winnipeg Jets

Nine hundred and sixty-nine games, 240 goals, and 48 per cent of his shot attempts from inside 20 feet at 33.

RW · New Jersey Devils

22 goals with 64 per cent of his shots taken from inside 20 feet — the most extreme interior profile in this edition.

C · Buffalo Sabres

21 goals in 56 games at a 21.9 per cent rate, on shoulders that have now ended four seasons early.

LW · Florida Panthers

A 57.2 per cent chance share in the smallest role on the roster, and 9 points.

C · Pittsburgh Penguins

Acquired from Nashville in March for Michael Bunting, with the best chance share of any forward on the club.

C · Edmonton Oilers

49 points in a third-line role, and a minus-16 goal differential on a 53.5 per cent chance share.

D · Edmonton Oilers

33 points, 72 penalty minutes, and a 53.4 per cent chance share on the most criticised contract in the league.

RW · Toronto Maple Leafs

45 goals on 253 shots and eight game-winners, in the best season of his career.

RW · Winnipeg Jets

Eight hundred and sixty-three games, 75 points two seasons ago, and 28 points and a minus-24 last year.

C · Utah Mammoth

Undrafted, 50 penalty minutes in 28 games, and 491 in 227 career games.

LW · Vancouver Canucks

Undrafted, six-foot-four, and 51 per cent of his shot attempts from inside 20 feet across two clubs.

RW · Colorado Avalanche

10 goals from 21 feet out, a 53.4 per cent chance share, and the club's most-used penalty killer.

C · Nashville Predators

57 per cent of his shots from inside 20 feet at 34, 24 penalty minutes in 79 games, and the hardest defensive assignment on a club whose penalty kill finished 2nd in the league.

D · Nashville Predators

Even in plus-minus while his line was outscored 17-29 at five-on-five, and 4 penalty minutes in 37 games.

G · Dallas Stars

36 wins and 19.7 goals saved above the chances faced, 3rd in the league — and the reason this club's record outran its play.

LW · Minnesota Wild

24 games at 21 and a 40.8 per cent chance share, and a first NHL look that did not go well.

D · Seattle Kraken

Six-foot-seven and 252 pounds — the heaviest defenceman in this edition — at eighteen and a half minutes a night.

RW · Columbus Blue Jackets

18 goals and 139 penalty minutes, and 56 per cent of his shots from inside 20 feet.

RW · Colorado Avalanche

15 goals in 56 games on a one-year deal, and a shot that is still worth a power-play spot at 30.

D · San Jose Sharks

A career plus-134 and 28 points in Carolina, signed in the summer to be the veteran on the youngest blue line in hockey.

C · San Jose Sharks

Six-foot-four and 212 pounds, 45 penalty minutes in 56 games, and one goal.

LW · New York Rangers

A first-round pick with 0 goals on 20 shots in 22 games, and 2 penalty minutes from a man drafted for his edge.

LW · Washington Capitals

Eight hundred and ninety-seven goals, forty-four of them last season at 39, and a broken fibula in the middle of it.

D · Calgary Flames

88 penalty minutes, a 47 per cent chance share, and a third-pair right shot playing 14 minutes.

C · New York Islanders

51 per cent of his shots from inside 20 feet at 33, 42 points, and the defensive centre on a penalty kill that finished 31st.

LW · New Jersey Devils

28 points at 34 on a 15.6 per cent rate, in the fourth year of a contract that has not worked.

C · New York Islanders

24 goals at 34 on 14.2 per cent shooting, with 42 per cent of his attempts taken from inside 20 feet.

LW · New York Rangers

37 goals and 89 points at 33, and his line was outscored 33-49 at five-on-five on even chances.

D · St. Louis Blues

Six-foot-six, 16 goals from the blue line, and 8 penalty minutes in 64 games at 23:45 a night.

C · New York Rangers

Three clubs in one season at 24, and a 6-3 centre who takes half his shots from inside 20 feet.

RW · Boston Bruins

106 points on a club that scored 210 goals, and an on-ice goal differential of minus-9 to go with it.

LW · Tampa Bay Lightning

Six-foot-four and 234 pounds, 22 goals, and the ice he was on conceded fifteen fewer goals than the chances predicted.

LW · Winnipeg Jets

Seven hundred and twenty-two games, a Stanley Cup at 21, and 8 penalty minutes in 78.

D · Boston Bruins

1 goal in 76 games, a minus-10, and a right-shot defenceman playing 18 minutes because somebody has to.

D · New York Islanders

The 89th percentile in chance share, and zero goals in 60 games on 109 shots.

LW · Tampa Bay Lightning

Nineteen points in 49 games across two clubs, from a first-round pick on his third organisation at 24.

D · Nashville Predators

Six foot four, right-handed, plus-8 in Tampa, and signed to be the settled top-four partner this blue line has not had.

C · Winnipeg Jets

Fifty points at 23, and thirteen goals of scoring missing from his ice.

LW · Ottawa Senators

Nine goals in 43 games at 37, in the fewest games he has played in a full season since his rookie year.

RW · Los Angeles Kings

19 goals at 40 on a 19 per cent rate, and a fifth Stanley Cup final appearance in six years.

D · New Jersey Devils

A 52.3 per cent chance share in the club's hardest defensive minutes, and 17 points.

RW · Utah Mammoth

27 goals and 68 points in Buffalo, and the largest thing this club bought in the summer.

D · Florida Panthers

37 years old, 44 games, and a seventh defenceman signed for the depth a long spring requires.

D · Vancouver Canucks

Twenty-eight games at 20 from a third-round pick who arrived two years ahead of schedule.

C · Vancouver Canucks

45 points in 64 games, two years after 102, in the first season of an eight-year contract.

D · Vancouver Canucks

Six-foot-five and 174 pounds — the lightest man in this edition for his height — and 78 per cent of his attempts from beyond 40 feet.

LW · Toronto Maple Leafs

No points in 25 games at under six minutes a night, and 241 penalty minutes in 200 career games.

G · Edmonton Oilers

An .8999 in 36 games, and a backup who keeps being asked to be more.

D · Pittsburgh Penguins

Six-foot-five and 21 years old, and 96 per cent of his shot attempts came from beyond 40 feet.

C · Ottawa Senators

21 goals in 70 games at a 16.5 per cent conversion, with 3 shorthanded goals and 5 game-winners.

D · Winnipeg Jets

Undrafted, 39 points in 69 games, and 86 per cent of his shot attempts from beyond 40 feet.

RW · Edmonton Oilers

A 58.4 per cent chance share in thirteen minutes a night, from a winger Vancouver gave away for a fourth-round pick.

C · Mighty Ducks of Anaheim

31 points on a 16.9 per cent shooting rate, which is twice what he had ever managed before.

C · Tampa Bay Lightning

42 goals on 189 shots — a 22.2 per cent conversion, the highest of any volume shooter in this edition.

C · Boston Bruins

33 games at 21, a 51.4 per cent chance share, and the best underlying numbers of any forward on the roster.