Players

LW · Florida Panthers

51 points at 36 across two clubs, and the most disruptive deadline acquisition of the year.

RW · Columbus Blue Jackets

31 goals, 74 points and a plus-29 — the best rating on the club by 9 — on a line that broke even in chances.

C · Nashville Predators

A Conn Smythe winner two years earlier: 21 goals in his first Nashville season after 42 in his last Vegas one.

LW · Seattle Kraken

Six-foot-five, undrafted, 22 goals in 62 games in Dallas, and acquired in the summer for picks.

D · Utah Mammoth

Twenty-one minutes a night in 35 games, and 2 penalty minutes across all of them.

G · New Jersey Devils

A .9003 across 49 games at 35, and a goaltender the club paid a first-round pick for.

RW · Vegas Golden Knights

102 points and 75 assists in Toronto, and the largest thing any club acquired in the summer.

G · New York Rangers

An .8457 in 9 games for Carolina, and a career .8828 across five seasons.

LW · Carolina Hurricanes

36 points at 33 and a 55.8 per cent chance share, from a winger nobody drafted to score.

D · Chicago Blackhawks

24 games at 22, 6-4, and a defensive defenceman with a 45.5 per cent share on a club whose average was 43.

D · Columbus Blue Jackets

45 games at 21, 5-11, and a defenceman whose development matters more to this club than anybody's.

D · Montreal Canadiens

25:05 a night — the heaviest workload on the club — and a 47.2 per cent chance share.

D · Ottawa Senators

An undrafted Finn who played his first 41 NHL games at 26 and took 84 per cent of his shot attempts from beyond 40 feet.

C · Toronto Maple Leafs

The 93rd percentile of chances and 78 points in 67 games, in the least productive full season of his prime.

D · New York Islanders

Plus-18 — the best figure on the club by thirteen — at the 24th percentile in chance share.

D · Boston Bruins

50 games, 23:40 a night, and the only defenceman here whose absence changed the shape of the team.

C · Utah Mammoth

Six-foot-four, 78 penalty minutes, and half his shot attempts from inside 20 feet.

D · Toronto Maple Leafs

Plus-23 and the 76th percentile of chances, from the defenceman this club uses against everybody's best line.

LW · Seattle Kraken

61 points and a plus-8 on a club that was outscored, with the most perimeter shot profile of any scorer here.

C · Nashville Predators

Six foot six, 102 penalty minutes, and a plus-3 at five-on-five sitting underneath a minus-21 — the clearest illustration in this edition of what plus-minus actually measures.

C · Edmonton Oilers

100 points in 67 games and a 59.8 per cent chance share, and his line came out 62-57 against an expected 67-44.

D · Tampa Bay Lightning

Plus-43 in 82 games at 35, which was the best figure in the league.

C · Buffalo Sabres

20 goals on 97 shots — 20.6 per cent — after scoring 12 in his best previous season.

C · Toronto Maple Leafs

Undrafted, 20 goals at 28, and five game-winners from a third line.

LW · Washington Capitals

Twenty-six goals at 24 from a 180-pound winger who takes half his shots from inside 20 feet.

D · Vegas Golden Knights

Plus-42 in 82 games at 34, second only to one man in the league.

C · Anaheim Ducks

22 goals and 52 points, and a 42.4 per cent chance share that is the 6th percentile in the entire league.

RW · New Jersey Devils

26 goals on 239 shots — a 10.9 per cent rate — on a 53.7 per cent chance share.

C · New Jersey Devils

36 points and 52 per cent of his shots from inside 20 feet, and a fourth season that looked like the third.

G · Ottawa Senators

A .9254 with three shutouts in twelve games at 22, which is the most interesting twelve games on this roster.

G · Columbus Blue Jackets

An .8921 across 52 games, and the reason a club that finished 2nd in finishing missed the playoffs.

RW · Philadelphia Flyers

26 goals and 63 points as a 20-year-old rookie, on a club that conceded 286.

D · Minnesota Wild

21 points, 6-3 and 219 pounds, and a 47.1 per cent chance share beside the club's most-used defenceman.

D · Colorado Avalanche

6-6 and 240 pounds, 41 games, 2 points, and no pretence about which of those three matters.

RW · Chicago Blackhawks

20 goals and a plus-4 on a club that was minus-66, which is the strangest arithmetic in this edition.

D · Florida Panthers

6-6, 70 penalty minutes, and on-ice goals of 50-51 in a shutdown role.

D · Winnipeg Jets

Five hundred and seventy-two games across six organisations, and 83 per cent of his shot attempts from beyond 40 feet.

C · New York Rangers

70 points across two clubs and a return to the organisation that drafted him fourteen years ago.

D · Carolina Hurricanes

6-5, 25 years old, and a defenceman the Rangers gave up on at exactly the age most defencemen arrive.

C · Boston Bruins

21 NHL games at 21, acquired for a defenceman the club could not keep, and the best young centre in the organisation.

D · Anaheim Ducks

A 21-year-old defenceman with a 43.7 per cent chance share, which is the 9th percentile in the league.

D · Calgary Flames

44 games, 9 points, and a 6-4 right shot on his third organisation at 28.

C · Boston Bruins

40 points, a minus-29, and a 46.1 per cent chance share — the second club in two years to decide he was not the centre they wanted.

C · Columbus Blue Jackets

57 points in 54 games, and a body that has now cost him parts of six consecutive seasons.

G · Montreal Canadiens

A .9011 across 62 games and the fourth-most shots faced in the league, on a club with the worst chance suppression but one.

D · Seattle Kraken

18 goals and 231 shots from the blue line, 70 penalty minutes, and a minus-22 in the first year of a seven-year contract.

LW · Los Angeles Kings

18 goals in 71 games and a 55.6 per cent chance share, from an undrafted winger in his eleventh season.

D · Winnipeg Jets

Sixty-two points at 24:23 a night from a 195-pound defenceman, and 22 penalty minutes.

D · Tampa Bay Lightning

Plus-20 in 54 games from a Swiss defenceman acquired in the Sergachev trade.

D · Los Angeles Kings

A 57.7 per cent chance share in 530 minutes, and 0 per cent of his shots from inside 20 feet.

G · Anaheim Ducks

An .8912 across two clubs at 33, brought in to give the starter 25 nights off.

D · San Jose Sharks

Six-foot-four, a first-round pick acquired in the Timo Meier trade, and 18 minutes a night in a 30-game debut.

D · Chicago Blackhawks

68 games at 32 on a club that conceded 296 goals, and 19 points to show for it.

D · Toronto Maple Leafs

Undrafted, six-foot-five, and 36 games at sixteen minutes a night as a seventh defenceman.

D · Vancouver Canucks

Six-foot-eight, 74 penalty minutes at 35, and 1,066 games.

C · Winnipeg Jets

Seventy-one per cent of his shot attempts from inside 20 feet at a median of 14 — the most net-front profile in this chapter.

C · Chicago Blackhawks

12 goals in 53 games at 21, and the second-most important forward in the organisation.

C · Colorado Avalanche

The return for Mikko Rantanen, an 83-point season, and the fastest man on the roster with the puck on his stick.

G · San Jose Sharks

An .8937 in 38 games in Pittsburgh, and a third organisation in five seasons.

LW · St. Louis Blues

Fifty-five per cent of his shot attempts came from inside 20 feet — the highest share in this chapter — and he converted 18 per cent of them.