Players

D · Seattle Kraken

Twenty-five points in his first full season at 23, on the third pair of a club that was 29th in chance share.

C · Boston Bruins

142 shots and 9 goals from a fourth-line role, and 63 penalty minutes.

C · St. Louis Blues

Sixteen points in 44 games in Anaheim, and a career that has now lost most of five seasons to knees.

D · Columbus Blue Jackets

A plus-20 on a waiver claim, and 26 points from a right shot the club got for nothing.

D · Minnesota Wild

25:32 a night at 23 — the second-heaviest workload in the league — and a 46.9 per cent chance share.

C · Dallas Stars

A checking centre back where he spent nine years, and 15 points to remind everyone why he left.

C · Columbus Blue Jackets

31 goals at 20, and a 44.4 per cent chance share that is the 12th percentile in the league.

LW · Calgary Flames

25 points, a minus-17, and 12 goals of finishing disappearing from underneath a 50.6 per cent chance share.

D · St. Louis Blues

Twenty-eight assists at 33 and 22:27 a night, on the only pairing here whose chances went the wrong way.

D · Washington Capitals

Six-two, 215 pounds, and his ice went 52-50.

D · San Jose Sharks

Twenty-one minutes a night on the worst club in the league, a minus-25, and a career minus-120.

LW · Los Angeles Kings

35 goals, 244 shots, and a 57.8 per cent chance share — the best of any forward on the club.

D · Winnipeg Jets

Seventh overall in 2014, 307 games, 44 points, and the worst chance share on this roster.

LW · Los Angeles Kings

24 goals and a plus-36 — the best rating on the club — on a 56.7 per cent chance share.

RW · Philadelphia Flyers

25 goals at a 17.6 per cent conversion, the highest rate of any regular in this chapter.

LW · Minnesota Wild

14 goals on a 15.4 per cent rate, 75 penalty minutes, and 54 per cent of his shots from inside 20 feet.

LW · Chicago Blackhawks

The captain at 37, 35 points, and 60 per cent of his shots from inside 20 feet.

D · Vancouver Canucks

Forty-five penalty minutes in 54 games, and the worst chance share of any defenceman on the club.

G · Los Angeles Kings

A .9010 in 30 games, and a backup signed to take 30 nights off a 35-year-old.

LW · Nashville Predators

31 goals on 281 shots, and a line outscored 49-54 while the chances said 46.5-51 — the widest gap between deserved and delivered in this edition.

D · Florida Panthers

Plus-33 — the best rating on the club — and ten goals of goaltending that arrived instead.

D · St. Louis Blues

Acquired from Anaheim in December, and his ice conceded thirteen fewer goals than the chances predicted.

D · New York Rangers

51 assists and the 82nd percentile in chance share, and his own ice outscored the opposition 60-45.

RW · Washington Capitals

Undrafted, 27 years old, four goals in his first 24 NHL games, and the 87th percentile of chances.

C · Edmonton Oilers

15 points in 58 games, a minus-16, and a large contract signed on the basis of a role rather than a season.

C · Calgary Flames

37 points across two clubs and a 52.7 per cent chance share, from a centre Philadelphia gave up on twice.

LW · Florida Panthers

60 penalty minutes in 42 games, 4 points, and eight and a half minutes a night.

RW · Montreal Canadiens

21 goals at 33 on a 14.2 per cent rate, and a 52.1 per cent chance share nobody expected.

RW · Vancouver Canucks

One hundred and sixty-five pounds, 50 points, and the ice he was on outscored its expectation by seven.

C · New York Islanders

A 41.9 per cent chance share — the 4th percentile in the league — and 8 goals on 41 shots.

RW · San Jose Sharks

Nineteen goals on 90 shots — a 21.1 per cent conversion, the highest of any player in this edition.

C · Seattle Kraken

Undrafted, and 18 goals on 110 shots in Minnesota before Seattle acquired him in the summer.

LW · Anaheim Ducks

20 goals in his first full season at 21, on 190 shots and fourteen minutes a night.

D · New York Rangers

82 games at 23:05 a night in Los Angeles at plus-26, and the reason this blue line looks different.

C · Tampa Bay Lightning

Six-foot-four and 20 years old, and 43 per cent of his shot attempts from inside 20 feet in a rookie season.

C · Boston Bruins

33 goals on 150 shots, which is 22 per cent, and the least repeatable season in this edition.

D · New York Islanders

A fourth-round pick playing 15:39 a night at 21, with 77 per cent of his shots from beyond 40 feet.

G · Detroit Red Wings

A .9112 in 29 games, and the first time in six years he has been above league average.

D · Ottawa Senators

Fifty penalty minutes in 29 games, no shot attempts at all from inside 20 feet, and 138 penalty minutes in 111 career games.

D · Colorado Avalanche

5-10 and 170 pounds, 21 assists, and the smallest man in the league playing 21 minutes a night.

C · Tampa Bay Lightning

Two goals in 82 games, and the ice he was on outscored its expectation by fifteen.

RW · Ottawa Senators

Fifty points at 37 in his 18th season, and 1,116 of them in a career that is now among the longest in the league.

C · New Jersey Devils

22 points and a 54.3 per cent chance share, and a former first-round pick on his third organisation.

C · New Jersey Devils

7 points in 77 games, and a faceoff specialist at 36.

C · Tampa Bay Lightning

Twenty points in a first full season, and the ice he was on conceded five fewer goals than the chances predicted.

C · San Jose Sharks

A 38.6 per cent chance share — the worst figure of any regular in this edition — with 75 penalty minutes and a minus-37.

D · Carolina Hurricanes

45 points and a 60.5 per cent chance share — the highest of any skater in the league — and a defenceman nobody trusts to defend.

C · Tampa Bay Lightning

Undrafted, 5-9, and back where he won two Stanley Cups after a deadline trade from Seattle.

RW · San Jose Sharks

Undrafted out of Quinnipiac, and 44 per cent of his shot attempts from inside 20 feet in a 33-game rookie season.

C · Anaheim Ducks

66 points at 33 across two clubs, and the best playmaker this organisation has had in a decade.

D · Pittsburgh Penguins

Six-foot-five, 225 pounds, and 79 per cent of his shot attempts from beyond 40 feet, in the second season of a six-year contract.

G · Columbus Blue Jackets

A .9381 in 11 games, which is the most interesting small sample in this edition.

LW · Buffalo Sabres

6-6 and 231 pounds, 34 games, and a body that has now cost him more seasons than it has given.

LW · Florida Panthers

130 penalty minutes in nine and a half minutes a night, and a 54.9 per cent chance share doing it.

LW · Florida Panthers

7 points in 52 games and a minus-21, and a fourth-line winger on his fourth organisation.

C · Ottawa Senators

Forty-seven per cent of his shot attempts came from inside 20 feet — the highest share of any full-season forward on the club — and he took 60 penalty minutes doing it.

G · Seattle Kraken

An .8752 in 26 games at 33, in the fourth year of a six-year contract that has not worked from the day it was signed.

RW · Philadelphia Flyers

Three goals in 56 games on the worst club in the league, and a signing for the fourth line.

D · Chicago Blackhawks

40 points and 39 assists from a 5-10 defenceman, and 1 goal.

D · Anaheim Ducks

35 years old, 86 penalty minutes, and 1,333 minutes of the hardest defensive assignments on the worst defensive team in the league.