Players

LW · Calgary Flames

Eight hundred and seven career points, twenty-five of them last season.

C · New Jersey Devils

Seventy-seven points in sixty-one games, and nineteen in his last ten.

D · New Jersey Devils

Twenty-three minutes a night at twenty-two, and thirty-five points.

D · Minnesota Wild

One of the two or three best skating defencemen alive, playing twenty-eight minutes a night and touching every part of the game.

D · Minnesota Wild

A third-round defenceman getting his first real look, with no goals and not much evidence either way.

G · Anaheim Ducks

A career .900 goaltender, and two straight seasons well below it.

D · Montréal Canadiens

Five-foot-nine, a hundred and sixty-two pounds, twenty-four minutes a night, and seventy-eight points.

LW · Edmonton Oilers

A fifth-round pick who made himself a 30-goal scorer by being willing to stand in the one place nobody else wants to stand.

RW · Dallas Stars

Twenty games, three goals, and five points in his last ten.

LW · Winnipeg Jets

An undrafted winger nine years into a career built on doing the correct thing every shift.

D · New York Rangers

Six foot four, thirty-six career games, and no goals in any of them.

D · Winnipeg Jets

A big depth defenceman with twenty games and seven assists, which is a strange line in either direction.

C · Tampa Bay Lightning

Forty-three games, seven goals, and twenty-five goals for against thirteen.

LW · Carolina Hurricanes

Fifty-eight per cent of his shots from inside twenty feet, which is the highest share in this book.

C · Edmonton Oilers

Fast, honest and almost entirely without offense — a coach's fourth-liner who has outlasted most of his draft class.

G · Edmonton Oilers

A two-time All-Star whose game has come apart badly enough that he was sent to the minors two years ago.

RW · Carolina Hurricanes

Five foot ten, thirty-two goals, and he takes his shots where the goals are.

LW · Boston Bruins

Sixty-six penalty minutes, six goals, and a contract that has followed him around.

C · Washington Capitals

Eight hundred and eight games, and thirteen goals at thirty-three.

D · Anaheim Ducks

Gives up shots and refuses to give up chances, which is a rarer skill than it sounds.

D · Philadelphia Flyers

The sixth pick in 2022, twenty-six games, and no points at all.

D · Detroit Red Wings

Eighty-two games at nineteen percentile, in a role the club had nobody else for.

G · Tampa Bay Lightning

A hundred and five games, and a .8836.

C · Columbus Blue Jackets

The fifth pick in 2021, a hundred and seventy pounds, and twenty-two points.

LW · St. Louis Blues

Six foot five, a hundred and seven penalty minutes, and forty-six points in three hundred and seven games.

C · Dallas Stars

Forty-five goals, twenty-seven of them on the power play, and the thirteenth percentile at even strength.

D · Boston Bruins

Four hundred and forty-eight games at twenty-seven, and still being asked to play the third pair.

C · Calgary Flames

Three points in twenty-eight games, and the first percentile in shot attempts.

LW · Edmonton Oilers

A big, straight-ahead energy winger who plays eight minutes and makes all of them uncomfortable.

D · Florida Panthers

Twenty-three and three-quarter minutes a night, and a reputation that has finally caught up with the results.

RW · Edmonton Oilers

Speed, penalty-killing minutes, and a scoring touch that has been trending the wrong way for three years.

C · Toronto Maple Leafs

Sixty-one per cent of his shots from inside twenty feet, and a median of thirteen.

D · Nashville Predators

A thousand and thirty games, twenty-five minutes a night, and a club sinking underneath him.

D · Colorado Avalanche

A former first-round pick, ten years on, playing a sheltered third pairing and doing it competently.

C · Colorado Avalanche

A seventeen-year veteran whose ugly plus-minus belongs mostly to a different team.

D · Chicago Blackhawks

Nineteen and a half minutes a night, and the thirteenth percentile in both columns.

RW · Seattle Kraken

The second pick in 2019, plus fourteen, and the twelfth percentile.

RW · Chicago Blackhawks

Nineteen seasons, fourteen hundred points, and he is still the best passer on the ice most nights.

RW · Edmonton Oilers

Blazing speed, a decent shot, and eleven years of people wondering why it has not added up to more.

C · Montréal Canadiens

A second-round Finn who scored twenty-two goals as a rookie and did most of it beside the best young playmaker on the team.

LW · Minnesota Wild

A fifth-round pick out of Russia who turned into the most electric goal-scorer this franchise has ever had.

D · Pittsburgh Penguins

Eleven hundred and fifty-nine games, and sixty-six points at thirty-six.

C · Vancouver Canucks

The fifty-seventh percentile on the worst possession club in the West, and fifteen goals.

LW · New York Rangers

Undrafted, two hundred and four games, and the sixteenth percentile.

C · Detroit Red Wings

The eighth pick in 2022, nineteen points, and a minus-twenty.

C · Boston Bruins

Six foot four, a hundred and forty penalty minutes, and twelve goals — the job as it exists now.

RW · Utah Mammoth

Eighty-eight points, twenty in his last ten, and five foot ten.

C · Colorado Avalanche

An undrafted fourth-liner who scored twenty-one goals, which is not what fourth-liners do.

RW · Los Angeles Kings

The rare winger who is his team's leading scorer and its best defensive forward at the same time.

C · Nashville Predators

Six hundred and thirty-nine games of doing the useful thing quietly.

D · New York Islanders

Ninety-nine games across four seasons, and three goals.

D · San Jose Sharks

A hundred and ninety games, no goals last season, and fifty penalty minutes in thirty-four.

C · Boston Bruins

Fifteen goals on seventy-eight shots, and a role he has grown into faster than expected.

LW · Anaheim Ducks

A thousand games, two Cups, and a role here that has quietly become teaching.

C · Pittsburgh Penguins

Nineteen years old, thirty-five points, and the eighty-second percentile.

C · Minnesota Wild

A twenty-nine-year-old with fifty career games, hanging onto the edge of a lineup.

LW · Dallas Stars

The ninety-ninth percentile in Colorado, and nine points to show for it.

RW · Calgary Flames

Six foot eight, undrafted, a hundred and twelve penalty minutes, and he can actually skate.

D · Ottawa Senators

Six foot five, fifty-three penalty minutes, and the eighty-ninth percentile.

LW · Toronto Maple Leafs

Sixty-six points, minus thirty, and sixty-two per cent of his shots from inside twenty feet.