Players

RW · Boston Bruins

The one arrival whose underlying numbers are better than anything Boston had.

D · Florida Panthers

Six foot five, and not a single shot from inside twenty feet all season.

C · Vancouver Canucks

Five hundred and eight points, and twenty-six goals for against fifty-five.

D · New York Rangers

Six foot five and a hundred and seventy-four pounds, and the fifth percentile.

G · Minnesota Wild

A career backup having a bad year in a small sample, on his sixth organisation.

C · Ottawa Senators

Twenty-three goals, and the eighty-sixth percentile from the third line.

D · Winnipeg Jets

An undrafted defenceman who has played nearly six hundred games and twenty-two minutes a night on merit alone.

C · Minnesota Wild

Eleven years and four hundred and fifty games of fourth-line minutes, now down to under eight a night.

RW · Edmonton Oilers

A tenth-overall pick who looked like a bust in Vancouver and has quietly turned into exactly the winger a skill team needs.

C · Anaheim Ducks

A first-round pick who found a real job several years and several clubs later.

C · Tampa Bay Lightning

Seven hundred and twenty games, and sixty per cent of his shots from inside twenty feet.

C · Calgary Flames

Twenty-two games, a hundred and seventy-three pounds, and a body that keeps stopping him.

D · Buffalo Sabres

First overall, six foot six, fifteen hundred minutes, and twenty-nine points.

LW · Washington Capitals

Six foot six, two hundred and fifty pounds, and twenty-five goals.

D · Columbus Blue Jackets

Sixteen hundred and forty-three five-on-five minutes, the most of anyone in this book.

D · New York Islanders

Six hundred and thirty-six games, and the twenty-second percentile in the second-most minutes.

C · Toronto Maple Leafs

Undrafted, twenty-three games, and the first percentile.

RW · Buffalo Sabres

Fifty-one points and a hundred and ninety-one shots, and still shooting from too far out.

D · Toronto Maple Leafs

Undrafted, twenty-two goals from the point, and the ninety-sixth percentile.

RW · New York Rangers

Fifty-three per cent of his shots from sixteen feet, and the seventh percentile.

RW · Pittsburgh Penguins

Fifty-eight per cent of his shots from inside twenty feet, and nine goals in his last ten.

RW · Dallas Stars

Seventy-seven points in sixty-four games, and the eleventh percentile in shot attempts.

C · Detroit Red Wings

Six foot six, the ninth overall pick, and a hundred and fifty-four points in four hundred and fifty-four games.

C · Vancouver Canucks

A hundred and fourteen games, and fifteen goals for against thirty-eight.

LW · Detroit Red Wings

Seventy-six points at twenty-four, and a shot chart drifting away from the net.

D · Edmonton Oilers

A 6-4 right-shot defenseman whose career has been mostly injuries and whose last look did not go well.

LW · Boston Bruins

A first-round pick at twenty-four with 170 pounds on him and the numbers running out of patience.

LW · Florida Panthers

Nine goals in fifty-nine games, and the fourth percentile underneath them.

C · Florida Panthers

Fifty per cent of his shots from inside twenty feet, and a minus-eighteen that belongs to somebody else.

C · New York Rangers

Six foot nine, two hundred and sixty-one pounds, and seventy-nine per cent of his shots from the paint.

D · Toronto Maple Leafs

Nine hundred and fifty-one games, four hundred and fifty-one assists, and minus eighteen.

D · Pittsburgh Penguins

Undrafted, seven hundred and fifty-one games, and twenty-eight goals.

D · Chicago Blackhawks

Six foot four at twenty-one, eighteen minutes a night, and no evidence yet in either direction.

D · Philadelphia Flyers

Eight hundred and twenty games, and one goal.

C · New York Islanders

Thirteen goals at twenty, and nine points in his last ten.

G · New Jersey Devils

A .8944, and the better half of a tandem that cost fourteen goals.

LW · Dallas Stars

Forty-five goals, ninety-six points, and the best on-ice rate of any forward here.

D · New York Rangers

Six years after the draft, a first full NHL season at twenty-four.

LW · Pittsburgh Penguins

Five foot nine, sixteen goals, and the eighth percentile in shot attempts.

LW · Carolina Hurricanes

Twelve goals from eleven minutes a night, undrafted, four hundred and fifty-five games in.

C · New Jersey Devils

Eighty-ninth percentile in Florida, and a median shot from thirty-four feet.

RW · Winnipeg Jets

A first-round Swedish winger on his second organisation, still waiting for the run of games that settles it.

C · Toronto Maple Leafs

Five hundred and ninety-five games, twenty-one goals, and the seventy-seventh percentile.

C · Vancouver Canucks

Five foot nine, thirty-five points in fifty games, and minus twenty-six.

D · Washington Capitals

Five hundred and seventeen games, twenty-nine goals, and twelve penalty minutes.

C · Colorado Avalanche

A six-foot-four centre who wins faceoffs, kills penalties and has been on a Cup team doing it.

RW · Pittsburgh Penguins

Twenty-nine goals at thirty-four, and half his shots from inside twenty feet.

RW · Tampa Bay Lightning

Undrafted, seventy-three games across six seasons, and eighty-nine penalty minutes in twenty-six.

D · Winnipeg Jets

A second-round Swedish defenceman who got thirty-two games as a rookie and did not look out of place.

C · Edmonton Oilers

An undrafted German center who went from the DEL to a two-way NHL role in a single year.

D · Winnipeg Jets

A six-foot-four defensive defenceman who plays twenty-two minutes and shows up on almost no scoresheet.

RW · Seattle Kraken

The ninety-third percentile, twelve goals, and a Stanley Cup organisation left behind.

D · Buffalo Sabres

The best plus-minus in the league, and a shot-attempt share in the twenty-sixth percentile.

D · Ottawa Senators

Twenty-four minutes and fifty seconds a night, and fifty-four points.

D · Washington Capitals

Three hundred and eighty-two games, twenty-four assists, and twelve penalty minutes.

D · Detroit Red Wings

Twenty-one points as a rookie defenceman, and a minus-twenty beside them.

D · Philadelphia Flyers

Twenty-four minutes a night on the third-best defensive team in the league.

G · Nashville Predators

Four hundred and sixty-seven games at a career .9116, and a season at .8935.

C · Vancouver Canucks

Undrafted, thirteen goals from ninety-one shots, and eleven minutes a night.

C · Edmonton Oilers

Undersized, entirely unbothered by it, and the most promising young forward the organization has produced in a decade.