Players

D · Pittsburgh Penguins

Four hundred and fifty-five games, and twenty-two of them last season.

G · Columbus Blue Jackets

Undrafted, a career .913, and the reason this club stayed in games it had no business in.

RW · Philadelphia Flyers

Forty-six penalty minutes in eleven minutes a night, and four goals.

C · Chicago Blackhawks

Twenty-nine points as a rookie, and forty-nine per cent of his shots from inside twenty feet.

LW · Chicago Blackhawks

Six foot six, two hundred and thirty-one pounds, and one goal in forty games.

LW · Anaheim Ducks

The argument that the fourth-line tough guy has become a hockey player.

LW · Winnipeg Jets

A fast bottom-six winger on his fourth organisation, with the production going the wrong way.

C · Ottawa Senators

Eighty-three penalty minutes, and half his shots from inside twenty feet.

RW · Calgary Flames

Twenty points in thirty-seven games as a nineteen-year-old, and the worst on-ice numbers in the book.

RW · New Jersey Devils

Ninety-fifth percentile in shot attempts as a rookie, and twenty-five goals for against forty-four.

G · Seattle Kraken

Four hundred and two games, and a .9088 nobody expected.

RW · Philadelphia Flyers

Three hundred and thirty-nine games, and eighty-nine points.

D · Florida Panthers

Eight hundred and eighty-five games, sixty-seven penalty minutes, and a median shot from sixty feet.

D · Columbus Blue Jackets

The third overall pick in 2010, and the first percentile in expected goals.

RW · Utah Mammoth

Forty goals at twenty-three, from a median of thirty-three feet.

C · Tampa Bay Lightning

Eighty-eight points, and fifty-nine per cent of his shots from inside twenty feet.

D · Montréal Canadiens

A physical, mobile defenceman with everything required except the ability to stay in the lineup.

C · Pittsburgh Penguins

A hundred and forty-nine games, twenty points, and none of them last season.

G · Minnesota Wild

A goaltender who has been both excellent and ordinary in this league, and last season was neither.

C · Los Angeles Kings

A small, quick forward on his third organisation, with 41 NHL games to make an argument with.

LW · Tampa Bay Lightning

Thirty-six goals, plus thirty-four, and the ninety-seventh percentile.

D · Nashville Predators

Six foot six, two hundred and forty-five pounds, and the heaviest man in this edition.

LW · Carolina Hurricanes

The first overall pick in 2010, nine hundred and eighty-nine games later, doing honest work.

C · Ottawa Senators

Six foot four, thirty games, and five points in his last ten.

LW · Anaheim Ducks

Five foot ten, undrafted, and thirty-one games without a single penalty minute.

RW · New Jersey Devils

Twenty-one years old, thirty-three games, and a median shot from thirty-five feet.

D · New Jersey Devils

Six foot six, five hundred and forty points, and forty-five goals for against sixty-seven.

D · Vegas Golden Knights

Eight hundred and twenty-nine games, three goals, and the eighty-fifth percentile.

D · Calgary Flames

Eighty-sixth percentile in shot attempts, and no goals in seventy-four tries.

C · Tampa Bay Lightning

Three hundred and five games, forty-five points, and nine and a half minutes a night.

D · Dallas Stars

Twenty-three minutes a night, thirty assists, and numbers that do not match the ice time.

G · Vegas Golden Knights

Two hundred and forty-five games, a career .9048, and eighteen appearances back.

RW · Minnesota Wild

A genuinely useful top-six winger and one of the more disliked opponents in the league, which is roughly how he wants it.

RW · Florida Panthers

Six hundred and seventy-two games, undrafted, and one goal.

LW · Los Angeles Kings

A thirteen-year veteran who takes the faceoffs and the defensive-zone starts, brought in to steady the middle of the lineup.

C · Utah Mammoth

The fifth pick in 2018, twenty-five points, and the ninety-fourth percentile.

D · Tampa Bay Lightning

Eleven hundred and sixty-four games, six foot seven, and thirty-three of them last season.

LW · New York Islanders

Twenty-two goals and nine assists, which is one of the strangest splits in this book.

LW · Columbus Blue Jackets

Six hundred and twelve games of being quietly useful, and the ninety-fifth percentile.

D · Dallas Stars

Twenty-five and a half minutes a night on the fourth-best defensive team in the league.

C · Los Angeles Kings

Six-foot-six, plays eight minutes, and is on the roster because of what he is rather than what he has done.

G · Winnipeg Jets

A big, deep, structurally sound goaltender coming off the worst statistical season of his prime - the question is whether it was the team or the technique.

D · Anaheim Ducks

Six foot three, a second-round pedigree, and the worst underlying season of any regular here.

C · Vegas Golden Knights

Eight hundred and seventy-three games, thirteen power-play goals, and minus seventeen.

G · Tampa Bay Lightning

Six foot seven, twenty appearances, and a .9124.

G · Vegas Golden Knights

Twenty-seven appearances, a .8705, and the second-worst goaltending in the league behind him.

C · Colorado Avalanche

A small, quick veteran winger who has spent eleven years being the thirteenth forward somewhere.

C · Dallas Stars

Fifty-five per cent of his shots from inside twenty feet, and the eighty-ninth percentile.

C · New Jersey Devils

Forty-eight per cent of his shots from inside twenty feet, and a Selke case nobody makes.

G · St. Louis Blues

Six shutouts, a .9088, and the second-best in the league at it.

LW · Nashville Predators

Five foot nine, a hundred and twenty points in three hundred games, and five last season.

LW · St. Louis Blues

Fifty-one points in fifty-nine games, and fifteen in his last ten.

RW · Tampa Bay Lightning

The ninety-second percentile from the third line, and forty-six goals for against twenty-eight.

RW · New York Islanders

Nineteen goals from a first-round pick who took four years to arrive.

RW · Vegas Golden Knights

The seventh pick in 2020, twenty-eight games, and nine points.

C · New York Islanders

Thirty-one goals, and three hundred career ones.

LW · Edmonton Oilers

A Hobey Baker winner in his first professional season, small and skilled, with everything still ahead of him.

C · Vegas Golden Knights

Four hundred and eighty-nine games, twelve goals, and the eighty-third percentile.

D · Vancouver Canucks

Twenty-five minutes a night, and forty-one goals for against eighty-three.

C · Dallas Stars

Undrafted, fourteen goals as a rookie, and fifty-eight per cent of his shots from inside twenty feet.