Players

C · Chicago Blackhawks

25 games at 22, 6-4 and 218 pounds, and a first NHL look.

C · Montreal Canadiens

22 points in 57 games and a minus-29 — the worst rating on the club — in a third interrupted season.

LW · New Jersey Devils

20 goals at 35 on a 16.3 per cent rate, and a scorer signed for a power play that is already 1st.

D · Buffalo Sabres

68 points and a 52.9 per cent chance share, and the only Buffalo skater who consistently tilts the ice.

C · Los Angeles Kings

A 58.1 per cent chance share — the 98th percentile — and 8 goals from 123 shots.

RW · Buffalo Sabres

5-8, 32 years old, 21 points, and a career that started in Finland at 26.

D · New York Islanders

23:21 a night in 35 games — the heaviest ice time on the club — after signing in December.

RW · Detroit Red Wings

39 goals from 5-8 and 180 pounds, on 244 shots, and a minus-13.

LW · Vancouver Canucks

Fifty-nine per cent of his shot attempts from inside 20 feet, 28 goals, and fourteen of them on the power play.

C · San Jose Sharks

One goal in 68 games, 59 penalty minutes, and a 41.0 per cent chance share.

D · Winnipeg Jets

Plus-31 in 82 games, 86 per cent of his shot attempts from beyond 40 feet, and 3 goals.

G · Vancouver Canucks

An .8893 in 23 games, two years after a Vezina-finalist season, in a body that has not held together since.

D · San Jose Sharks

Six-foot-seven, and 93 per cent of his shot attempts came from beyond 40 feet in a season split across three clubs.

D · Utah Mammoth

Undrafted, twenty games at fifteen minutes a night, and no penalty minutes at all.

LW · Philadelphia Flyers

761 penalty minutes in 677 games, and 31 games at 7:38 a night in the twelfth season of it.

G · Dallas Stars

A .9146 across 27 games at 34, and the best backup season on any contender in the league.

C · Pittsburgh Penguins

A fourth-line penalty killer acquired at the deadline, 5-10 and 187, with 46 per cent of his attempts from inside 20 feet.

C · Chicago Blackhawks

16 points, a 40.5 per cent chance share — the 2nd percentile — and a checking centre asked to check the whole league.

D · New Jersey Devils

82 games at 34, 67 penalty minutes, and 81 per cent of his shots from beyond 40 feet.

RW · Buffalo Sabres

19 points in 51 games at 23, and the second piece in the trade that sent JJ Peterka west.

G · Montreal Canadiens

A .9091 in 16 games at 24, and the first genuine backup this club has had in five years.

D · Montreal Canadiens

39 points and 196 shots at 25, and the largest acquisition this organisation has made in a decade.

C · Toronto Maple Leafs

Seventy-six penalty minutes at 5-10, and 25 assists in a season with eight goals.

C · Chicago Blackhawks

31 goals on a 17 per cent rate at 28, after never scoring more than 20.

RW · Vegas Golden Knights

35 goals on 254 shots at 24, and the 96th percentile of chances.

G · Anaheim Ducks

A .9028 in 54 games behind the worst chance-suppression in the league, and 27.5 goals saved above expectation.

D · Los Angeles Kings

30 games at 35 after a broken ankle, and 24:08 a night when he played.

C · Washington Capitals

A seventh-round pick, 35 years old, and the best fourth-line results on a club that finished first in the East.

C · New York Rangers

35 years old, undrafted, and 152 NHL games spread across nine seasons and four organisations.

C · Edmonton Oilers

52 goals on a 21.7 per cent rate, and a line that was outscored while creating 19 more chances than it allowed.

LW · New York Islanders

37 points in 43 games in Colorado at a point-per-game rate he had never previously held, signed here in the summer.

C · Colorado Avalanche

A 54.9 per cent chance share in a fourth-line role, which is the sort of number that gets a man promoted.

D · Philadelphia Flyers

Minus-32 on an on-ice chance expectation of 46.20-45.61 — dead even — which is the clearest illustration in this book of what plus-minus measures.

C · Washington Capitals

Sixty-six points and a plus-27, one season after being bought out of a career.

C · Dallas Stars

82 points at 34 on a 19.7 per cent shooting rate, which is the highest of his career and will not survive the year.

LW · New York Islanders

7 goals in 44 games in the first year of a four-year contract, at 15:03 a night.

RW · Winnipeg Jets

Undrafted out of Minnesota State, 92 NHL games, and no penalty minutes in 24 of them.

RW · Washington Capitals

Ninety-eight penalty minutes in 82 games, and 332 in 293 career games.

D · Pittsburgh Penguins

A former 50-point defenceman, 60 penalty minutes in 63 games, and a third organisation in three seasons.

D · Los Angeles Kings

80 games and 22 points at 33, and a left shot brought in to replace a better one.

D · Seattle Kraken

39 points in 62 games at 22 minutes a night, and 76 per cent of his shot attempts from beyond 40 feet.

D · Utah Mammoth

Eleven points in 30 games, and a season lost to a shoulder that required surgery.

C · Philadelphia Flyers

Nine seasons, 534 games, and a fourth-line centre signed in the summer to take the hard draws.

RW · Seattle Kraken

1,060 games and 728 points, and 42 of the former last season after a pelvic injury cost him half the year.

D · Los Angeles Kings

Plus-25 on on-ice goals of 64-47, which is 19 goals of help on an ordinary chance share.

C · New York Rangers

6-7 and 232, and 74 per cent of his shots came from inside 20 feet.

D · Detroit Red Wings

6-6, 31 points at 22, and a plus-12 on a club that was minus-23.

LW · Carolina Hurricanes

63 points in 69 games, and the first significant free agent this organisation has ever signed.

C · Vegas Golden Knights

94 points, 66 assists, a plus-32, and 8 penalty minutes in 77 games.

C · Minnesota Wild

A 55.2 per cent chance share — the best on the club — in 46 games.

D · Florida Panthers

33 points in 56 games and a plus-11, in a season interrupted by a 20-game suspension.

D · Edmonton Oilers

A 59.1 per cent chance share at 34 — the 99th percentile — and 11 goals of finishing that never came.

LW · San Jose Sharks

41 assists at 22 on a club that scored 210 goals, and 45 per cent of his shot attempts from inside 20 feet.

D · Toronto Maple Leafs

Plus-14 at 33 in the first year of a four-year contract, and 25 assists from a second pairing.

C · Ottawa Senators

A 36-year-old fourth-line centre with 1,116 games, a Stanley Cup-winning goal, and a specific job.

D · Edmonton Oilers

76 games at 25 on a third pair, and a defenceman acquired for a first-round pick's worth of cap space.

D · Nashville Predators

48 penalty minutes in 35 games, 80 per cent of his shots from beyond 40 feet, and a line that conceded 26 goals against an expectation of 13.9.

G · Philadelphia Flyers

A .883 across 47 games, on a club whose goaltending finished 42 goals worse than the chances faced.

RW · Nashville Predators

The best chance share of any forward on the club at 52 per cent, 32 points in fourteen minutes a night, and still waiting for the ice time.

C · Montreal Canadiens

36 points and 3 shorthanded goals from a checking centre, and 10 penalty minutes across 82 games.