Players

RW · Toronto Maple Leafs

21 years old, 29 points, and 45 penalty minutes.

C · Columbus Blue Jackets

24 goals at 34, from a median of 16 feet.

C · Ottawa Senators

The 98th percentile, and 48 goals for against 54.

D · Buffalo Sabres

6-8, and the 5th percentile in expected goals while he was on the ice.

C · Pittsburgh Penguins

1,420 games, 1,761 points, and 14 in his last 10.

LW · Utah Mammoth

6-4, 666 games, and 24 goals.

D · Tampa Bay Lightning

35 games, and the 80th percentile.

LW · New York Rangers

20 goals, 65 penalty minutes, and 47 per cent of his shots from the paint.

D · Tampa Bay Lightning

Undrafted, 28 years old, and 112 penalty minutes in his rookie season.

G · Seattle Kraken

47 appearances, a .8959, and .865 over the last 10.

C · Edmonton Oilers

A 6-4 winger with a decent set of hands who has spent 3 years being almost ready.

C · Montréal Canadiens

The third pick in his draft, 7 years on, with 136 career points and a knee that keeps ending his seasons.

D · Buffalo Sabres

74 points, 24 minutes a night, and the numbers finally agree with the pedigree.

C · Montréal Canadiens

A defensive centre back where his career started, with the offence now almost entirely gone.

C · Detroit Red Wings

28 games at 21, and the best of a bad set of Detroit numbers.

D · New York Islanders

30 assists from the blue line, and a penalty kill that finished last.

RW · Detroit Red Wings

5-8, 41 goals, and nobody has stopped him yet.

LW · Vancouver Canucks

23 goals, and 19 of them on the power play.

C · San Jose Sharks

The thirteenth pick in 2018, and the nought-th percentile.

D · Winnipeg Jets

A sixth-round pick who became the quiet half of one of the most settled defence pairings in the league.

RW · Montréal Canadiens

A rookie with 62 points who was already the most creative player on the ice most nights.

G · Vancouver Canucks

262 games, a career .9092, and 20 appearances.

D · Washington Capitals

6-7, 218 games, and 2 goals.

D · Utah Mammoth

Undrafted, 98 games across 4 seasons, and the 86th percentile.

LW · Carolina Hurricanes

708 games, 53 goals, and a job that barely exists any more.

G · Dallas Stars

Undrafted, and he out-saved the starter on the same defence.

C · Pittsburgh Penguins

Plus 16 from the fourth line, and 110 shots.

C · Edmonton Oilers

A defensive center who has made a long career out of the shifts nobody wants and the faceoffs nobody counts.

D · San Jose Sharks

20 years old, 72 games, and a median shot from 52 feet.

D · New Jersey Devils

1,056 games, undrafted, and a median shot from 58 feet.

RW · Buffalo Sabres

The best on-ice rate on the roster, and he gets it by shooting from 17 feet.

G · Montréal Canadiens

A fifth-round goaltender who took the crease and did not give it back.

D · Montréal Canadiens

A big right-shot defenceman who plays 22 minutes and has never quite been the player his best season promised.

C · Toronto Maple Leafs

815 games, minus 29, and 95 penalty minutes.

C · Chicago Blackhawks

565 games, and a career year that landed on the worst possible team.

RW · New York Rangers

37 goals, 20 of them on the power play.

G · Anaheim Ducks

The goaltender this club has committed to, coming off the season that made the commitment a question.

D · Los Angeles Kings

18 years, 2 Cups and 1,279 games in one sweater, still playing the most minutes on the team.

C · Seattle Kraken

6-9, 108 penalty minutes, and 6 minutes and 45 seconds a night.

C · Vegas Golden Knights

657 games, the 198th pick, and 73 penalty minutes.

C · Edmonton Oilers

One of the two or three most dangerous goal-scorers alive, and he does it at a pace that looks like he is barely trying.

C · Nashville Predators

Plus-15 and the 98th percentile, from a fourth-line centre.

D · Philadelphia Flyers

The sixth pick in 2020, 21 and a half minutes, and 32 points.

C · Washington Capitals

627 games, 29 of them last season, and the 75th percentile.

C · Dallas Stars

1,195 games, and 54 per cent of his shots from inside 20 feet.

LW · New York Islanders

The 3rd percentile in expected goals, and 165 career goals.

RW · Toronto Maple Leafs

375 games, 70 points, and 78 penalty minutes.

D · Los Angeles Kings

A 2-time Cup winner whose entire job is to make sure nothing happens, and who is very good at it.

D · Seattle Kraken

44 points, minus 24, and 52 goals for against 65 expected against.

D · New York Rangers

85th percentile in Utah, and 22 assists from the second pair.

C · Philadelphia Flyers

64 per cent of his shots from inside 20 feet, and a median of 14.

RW · St. Louis Blues

21 years old, 12 goals, and 5 of them on the power play.

RW · Seattle Kraken

1,140 games, and 55 per cent of his shots from inside 20 feet.

D · Los Angeles Kings

6-5, mean about it, and last season the man asked to make a 22-year-old's mistakes disappear.

C · Nashville Predators

6-7, and 58 per cent of his shots from inside 20 feet.

D · Detroit Red Wings

6-6, 22 minutes a night, and the 74th percentile at 23.

LW · Carolina Hurricanes

71 points, 168 pounds, and a shot chart that has never made sense.

C · Vegas Golden Knights

90 points, 63 assists, and 16 in his last 10.

C · Minnesota Wild

A 6-3 centre who wins faceoffs, kills penalties, stands in front of the net and quietly puts up 50 points.

D · Florida Panthers

The 1st overall pick in 2014, 800 games later, doing the quiet half.