Players

C · Columbus Blue Jackets

26 games, a captaincy, and a season lost to injury on a club that needed him for reasons the standings do not record.

D · Ottawa Senators

Plus-18 at 20:13 a night, and his ice conceded eleven fewer goals than the chances said it should have.

D · Detroit Red Wings

61 games at 24, a 49.5 per cent chance share, and a defenceman who arrived without anybody noticing.

G · Tampa Bay Lightning

An .8953 in 19 games behind a Vezina finalist, which is the whole of the job.

LW · Minnesota Wild

34 points at 35, and on-ice goals of 31-33 that nobody should expect again.

C · Columbus Blue Jackets

24 goals on a 19.5 per cent rate at 22, from a winger who weighs 170 pounds.

LW · Anaheim Ducks

6-5 and 232 pounds, 72 penalty minutes in 43 games, and 4 points.

C · Dallas Stars

33 goals at 22 from a median of 19 feet, and the most valuable contract in the league until it isn't.

D · Boston Bruins

A right-shot puck-mover acquired in a deadline salary trade, and a plus-13 in 60 games on two bad clubs.

C · Minnesota Wild

26 games, 0 points, and 24 shots without a goal.

LW · Edmonton Oilers

26 games, 2 points, and a minus-13 in nine minutes a night.

D · Florida Panthers

A 44.9 per cent chance share and a minus-24, and a Cup three months after arriving.

RW · St. Louis Blues

Fourteen points in 60 games at twelve minutes a night, from a winger whose ice outscored its chances by eleven.

D · Vancouver Canucks

No goals in 47 games across two clubs, and a minus-22 from a seventh defenceman.

C · Toronto Maple Leafs

Fourteen points in 57 games in the season after testicular cancer surgery.

D · Nashville Predators

25:02 a night and the best chance share on the blue line at 35, shut down in March after 53 games, and a line that scored 25 goals on 42.9 expected.

C · Nashville Predators

The 10th pick in 2016, five organisations later, 39 games and 9 points on ten minutes a night.

D · Philadelphia Flyers

No points in 35 games and 21 penalty minutes, from a first-round pick who is now a seventh defenceman.

C · Calgary Flames

35 goals at 34 on 279 shots, 72 penalty minutes, and a minus-17 on the club's first line.

D · Chicago Blackhawks

57 games at 23 on 18 minutes a night, and a defenceman the club still has no read on.

RW · Seattle Kraken

44 points in 79 games across two clubs, in the first season anybody has used him properly.

C · Vancouver Canucks

Undrafted, thirteen points in 59 games, and a fourth-line centre acquired for the penalty kill.

RW · Detroit Red Wings

59 points at 36 on a rebuilt hip, and 12 power-play goals on the league's 2nd-best unit.

RW · Edmonton Oilers

14 points in 67 games and a minus-22, the worst rating on a club that won 48 games.

LW · Minnesota Wild

56 points in 41 games — a 1.37 rate that nobody else on this club approaches — and a season lost at the halfway mark.

D · Pittsburgh Penguins

53 points and a minus-24, and the ice he was on scored 44 goals against an expectation of 64.89.

C · Vancouver Canucks

Twenty-three games at 25, and a plus-5 on a club that was outscored.

C · Vegas Golden Knights

The 95th percentile of chances from a defensive centre, and 4 penalty minutes in 53 games.

LW · Seattle Kraken

Undrafted, 43 penalty minutes in 63 games at under ten minutes a night, and the best chance share of any forward on the club.

C · Detroit Red Wings

19 goals as a rookie at 21, with half his shots taken from inside 20 feet.

C · Boston Bruins

6-4 and 234 pounds, 106 penalty minutes in 61 games, and a 45.1 per cent chance share.

RW · Utah Mammoth

90 points and a minus-12, and the ice he was on scored 25 goals at five-on-five against an expectation of 48.59.

C · Colorado Avalanche

Undrafted, on the fourth line, and in the 78th percentile in chance share while killing penalties.

RW · Los Angeles Kings

35 goals and 73 points on 237 shots, and a 49.3 per cent chance share on the club's hardest line.

C · Utah Mammoth

The 89th percentile of chances from a third-line centre, and 49 per cent of his attempts from inside 20 feet.

D · St. Louis Blues

No goals in 29 games, a 51.7 per cent chance share, and a fifth-round pick who has made himself a seventh defenceman.

D · Buffalo Sabres

29 points and 89 penalty minutes from a 6-5 right shot, and the larger half of the JJ Peterka trade.

C · Boston Bruins

12 points, a 42.1 per cent chance share — the 6th percentile in the league — and a change of organisation at 23.

LW · Anaheim Ducks

19 goals at 35 on a 14.2 per cent rate, and a plus-12 on a team that was minus-44.

C · Calgary Flames

21 games at 29, 8 points, and a career American Leaguer getting a look.

LW · Colorado Avalanche

16 goals on 84 shots, which is a 19 per cent conversion rate and will not happen again.

RW · Calgary Flames

6-8 and 235 pounds, 31 games, 6 goals, and the largest forward in the league.

D · Ottawa Senators

Six-foot-five and 225 pounds with the worst chance share on the blue line, and one per cent of his shot attempts from inside 20 feet.

LW · Toronto Maple Leafs

A median shot distance of fourteen feet and 62 per cent of his attempts from inside 20 — the most extreme net-front profile in this edition.

G · Chicago Blackhawks

A .9011 across 38 games, and the goaltender the club got for Seth Jones.

G · Carolina Hurricanes

An .8968 behind the best defensive team in the league, which is the worst combination of facts in this edition.

LW · Winnipeg Jets

Ten goals in 73 games from a sixth-round pick with 99 NHL games behind him.

RW · Vegas Golden Knights

Fifty-three penalty minutes — the most on the club — and the ice he was on outscored its expectation by eight.

G · Philadelphia Flyers

An .867 in 17 games at 22, which is the worst save percentage of anybody who played ten games in this edition.

D · Dallas Stars

A left-shot depth defenceman with 35 games of NHL work and a minus-12 to explain them.

RW · Philadelphia Flyers

A career-high 76 points and a minus-17, on a club whose goaltending was the worst in the league by twenty goals.

C · Los Angeles Kings

67 points at 37 on 98 shots — a 21.4 per cent rate — and 4 penalty minutes across the whole season.

D · Vegas Golden Knights

No goals in 40 games, a plus-15, and 2 penalty minutes all season.

G · Boston Bruins

An .8932 in 27 games, and a backup whose numbers are indistinguishable from the starter's.

C · Carolina Hurricanes

33 points and a 55.2 per cent chance share, on the seventh year of a contract nobody has stopped talking about.

D · New Jersey Devils

A 52.9 per cent chance share — the best on the blue line — from a defenceman claimed off waivers two years earlier.

C · Buffalo Sabres

21 games, 5 points, and a fourth-line centre getting his first look at 22.

C · Buffalo Sabres

28 points, 60 penalty minutes, and a fourth-line centre being carried by eight goals of finishing luck.

LW · Anaheim Ducks

22 goals and 8 assists at 34 — the worst full season of his career, and the price of finding out whether it was the club or the man.

RW · Tampa Bay Lightning

121 points and 84 assists at 31, a second consecutive Art Ross Trophy, and nine game-winning goals.