Players

LW · New Jersey Devils

67 assists — the most on the club by 24 — from a 5-10 winger nobody drafted highly.

RW · Pittsburgh Penguins

Six-foot-six and 232 pounds, undrafted, and an NHL regular for the first time at 27.

RW · Philadelphia Flyers

Five-foot-eight and 169 pounds, and 41 points with 45 per cent of his attempts from inside 20 feet.

D · St. Louis Blues

Plus-21 in the first season after an offer sheet, and 29 points from a 6-4 defenceman Edmonton let go for a second-round pick.

D · Minnesota Wild

50 games, 1 per cent of his shots from inside 20 feet, and a defenceman who does exactly one thing.

C · New York Rangers

12 goals on 73 shots at 16.4 per cent, in the tenth season of a career that took eight to start.

RW · New Jersey Devils

30 points and a plus-9, and a checking winger signed off a Cup final run.

D · Buffalo Sabres

5-9 and 177 pounds, a 44 per cent chance share, and 622 minutes that the club could not afford.

LW · St. Louis Blues

44 per cent of his shot attempts from inside 20 feet, and the ice he was on scored ten goals fewer than the chances predicted.

LW · Nashville Predators

Eleven of his 19 goals came on the power play, and his line conceded 53 goals against an expectation of 37.4.

LW · Chicago Blackhawks

37 points at 30, and a winger acquired because Chicago had to buy somebody who can pass.

D · Colorado Avalanche

82 games at 40 years old, which nobody else in the league can say, on a one-year deal to be the third-pair right shot.

RW · Los Angeles Kings

6-5 and 230 pounds at 23, 54 points, and a 56.5 per cent chance share.

D · Buffalo Sabres

38 points, 82 games, and the healthiest season of a career defined by not having one.

LW · Utah Mammoth

Undrafted, 5-9, and the 93rd percentile of chances in 53 games.

D · Toronto Maple Leafs

Six-foot-five, acquired at the deadline from Boston, and one goal in 83 games across two clubs.

D · Washington Capitals

Forty-six assists at 35, and 725 points from a defenceman who has never played anywhere else.

C · Anaheim Ducks

20 goals at 20 on a 17.5 per cent rate, and the only forward here whose on-ice goals beat what the chances deserved.

C · New York Rangers

58 penalty minutes on a fourth line, the 10th percentile in chance share, and an on-ice record twenty goals better than it.

D · Montreal Canadiens

25 points, a 45.7 per cent chance share, and a right shot playing 20 minutes because there was nobody else.

LW · Carolina Hurricanes

43 games, 11 points, and a fourth-line winger who is very hard to play against when he is on the ice at all.

LW · Philadelphia Flyers

Fifty-one per cent of his shot attempts came from inside 20 feet — the highest share on the club — and he took 14 penalty minutes all season.

RW · Montreal Canadiens

37 goals on 240 shots from 5-8, and a line outscored 63-44.

D · Los Angeles Kings

85 games across two clubs and 24 points, and a right shot signed because Vladislav Gavrikov left.

C · San Jose Sharks

63 points and 25 goals as an 18-year-old on the worst hockey team in the league, and the Calder Trophy for it.

D · Tampa Bay Lightning

Six-foot-four and 230 pounds, plus-29, and 75 per cent of his shot attempts from beyond 40 feet.

D · Ottawa Senators

45 points and a plus-17 on a club that was outscored at five-on-five, in the healthiest season he has had in six years.

RW · Tampa Bay Lightning

Undrafted, 12 goals in 66 games, and the worst chance share on the club by six points.

D · Carolina Hurricanes

A 54.5 per cent chance share and a plus-22, from an undrafted defenceman playing 19 minutes a night.

D · Detroit Red Wings

13 points, 69 penalty minutes, and a 45 per cent chance share at 34 on the top pair.

RW · Columbus Blue Jackets

15 points in 30 games, a back injury, and a trade request that has been public for a year.

D · Washington Capitals

A fifth-round pick with 99 NHL games, seventeen minutes a night, and 10 penalty minutes in 66.

D · New Jersey Devils

39 games, 10 points, and a seventh defenceman on his fifth organisation.

D · Columbus Blue Jackets

A 42.9 per cent chance share — the 8th percentile — across 793 minutes, and 8 points to go with it.

D · Washington Capitals

Twenty goals from the blue line, and the worst chance share of any defenceman on the roster.

C · Vancouver Canucks

Acquired in the January trade, and a 26-year-old centre whose career has been interrupted by four concussions.

C · Tampa Bay Lightning

The 96th percentile of chances, 27 goals, four shorthanded goals, and the best defensive forward in this chapter.

C · New York Islanders

82 games at 34 on the fourth line, and a line that scored 47 goals against an expectation of 33.5.

D · Los Angeles Kings

33 points at 22 and on-ice goals of 54-41, and the most promising defenceman this organisation has had in a decade.

D · Pittsburgh Penguins

Forty-five penalty minutes in 73 games from a right-shot third-pairing defenceman signed for the edge.

RW · Anaheim Ducks

10 goals in 32 games at a 24 per cent shooting rate, which is the most misleading line in this edition.

D · Utah Mammoth

Two hundred and thirty-seven pounds at 36, 77 penalty minutes, and 81 per cent of his shot attempts from beyond 40 feet.

LW · Calgary Flames

39 points and 15 goals on 194 shots, and an on-ice goal differential 13 worse than the chances deserved.

C · Colorado Avalanche

16 goals in 61 games from 22 feet out, and a 54.8 per cent chance share on the third line.

LW · Detroit Red Wings

32 points and a 44.4 per cent chance share — the 12th percentile — in the third year of a long contract.

G · Winnipeg Jets

A .9141 in 20 games from a career .8984, and the smallest possible sample of the best crease in hockey.

LW · Winnipeg Jets

Ninety-seven points, 41 goals on 267 shots, and 25 penalty minutes.

C · Utah Mammoth

65 points at 20 in his second season, on a line that was outchanced.

C · Detroit Red Wings

23 points in 56 games and a plus-4 on a club that was minus-23, in the fourth year of a contract that has never worked.

RW · Calgary Flames

24 goals at 22 in his first full season, from 5-10 and 183 pounds.

LW · New Jersey Devils

16 goals on a 17.8 per cent rate, 62 penalty minutes, and a minus-14 from a fourth line.

C · Ottawa Senators

Forty-one penalty minutes in 50 games from a fourth-line centre whose job description is to be disliked.

C · Philadelphia Flyers

Half of his shot attempts came from inside 20 feet, the highest share of any forward here, in his second season back from a broken back.

C · Columbus Blue Jackets

35 points across two clubs at 33, and a third-line centre acquired for a fourth-line price.

C · Ottawa Senators

Traded to Ottawa in March for Josh Norris after four seasons in Buffalo, and scored 47 points across the two clubs.

D · Chicago Blackhawks

6-8 and 228 pounds, 32 games, and 88 per cent of his shots from beyond 40 feet.

C · Pittsburgh Penguins

91 points at 37, 10 game-winning goals, and a five-on-five expectation of 56.21 goals for that returned 29.

LW · Utah Mammoth

Six-foot-four, twelve goals, and six assists in 81 games.

LW · New York Rangers

20 goals, 42 penalty minutes and plus-12 at 23, on a third line, in his second full season.

G · Seattle Kraken

A .9056 across 57 games and 1,599 shots, on a club that was 29th in the league at chance share.