Players

LW · Calgary Flames

807 career points, 25 of them last season.

C · New Jersey Devils

77 points in 61 games, and 19 in his last 10.

D · New Jersey Devils

23 minutes a night at 22, and 35 points.

D · Minnesota Wild

One of the two or three best skating defencemen alive, playing 28 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 2 straight seasons well below it.

D · Montréal Canadiens

5-9, 162 pounds, 24 minutes a night, and 78 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

20 games, 3 goals, and 5 points in his last 10.

LW · Winnipeg Jets

An undrafted winger 9 years into a career built on doing the correct thing every shift.

D · New York Rangers

6-4, 36 career games, and no goals in any of them.

D · Winnipeg Jets

A big depth defenceman with 20 games and 7 assists, which is a strange line in either direction.

C · Tampa Bay Lightning

43 games, 7 goals, and 25 goals for against 13.

LW · Carolina Hurricanes

58 per cent of his shots from inside 20 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 2-time All-Star whose game has come apart badly enough that he was sent to the minors 2 years ago.

RW · Carolina Hurricanes

5-10, 32 goals, and he takes his shots where the goals are.

LW · Boston Bruins

66 penalty minutes, 6 goals, and a contract that has followed him around.

C · Washington Capitals

808 games, and 13 goals at 33.

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, 26 games, and no points at all.

D · Detroit Red Wings

82 games at 19 percentile, in a role the club had nobody else for.

G · Tampa Bay Lightning

105 games, and a .8836.

C · Columbus Blue Jackets

The fifth pick in 2021, 170 pounds, and 22 points.

LW · St. Louis Blues

6-5, 107 penalty minutes, and 46 points in 307 games.

C · Dallas Stars

45 goals, 27 of them on the power play, and the 13th percentile at even strength.

D · Boston Bruins

448 games at 27, and still being asked to play the third pair.

C · Calgary Flames

3 points in 28 games, and the 1st percentile in shot attempts.

LW · Edmonton Oilers

A big, straight-ahead energy winger who plays 8 minutes and makes all of them uncomfortable.

D · Florida Panthers

23 and 3-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 3 years.

C · Toronto Maple Leafs

61 per cent of his shots from inside 20 feet, and a median of 13.

D · Nashville Predators

1,030 games, 25 minutes a night, and a club sinking underneath him.

D · Colorado Avalanche

A former first-round pick, 10 years on, playing a sheltered third pairing and doing it competently.

C · Colorado Avalanche

A 17-year veteran whose ugly plus-minus belongs mostly to a different team.

D · Chicago Blackhawks

19 and a half minutes a night, and the 13th percentile in both columns.

RW · Seattle Kraken

The second pick in 2019, plus 14, and the 12th percentile.

RW · Chicago Blackhawks

19 seasons, 1,400 points, and he is still the best passer on the ice most nights.

RW · Edmonton Oilers

Blazing speed, a decent shot, and 11 years of people wondering why it has not added up to more.

C · Montréal Canadiens

A second-round Finn who scored 22 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

1,159 games, and 66 points at 36.

C · Vancouver Canucks

The 57th percentile on the worst possession club in the West, and 15 goals.

LW · New York Rangers

Undrafted, 204 games, and the 16th percentile.

C · Detroit Red Wings

The eighth pick in 2022, 19 points, and a minus-20.

C · Boston Bruins

6-4, 140 penalty minutes, and 12 goals — the job as it exists now.

RW · Utah Mammoth

88 points, 20 in his last 10, and 5-10.

C · Colorado Avalanche

An undrafted fourth-liner who scored 21 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

639 games of doing the useful thing quietly.

D · New York Islanders

99 games across 4 seasons, and 3 goals.

D · San Jose Sharks

190 games, no goals last season, and 50 penalty minutes in 34.

C · Boston Bruins

15 goals on 78 shots, and a role he has grown into faster than expected.

LW · Anaheim Ducks

1,000 games, 2 Cups, and a role here that has quietly become teaching.

C · Pittsburgh Penguins

19 years old, 35 points, and the 82nd percentile.

C · Minnesota Wild

A 29-year-old with 50 career games, hanging onto the edge of a lineup.

LW · Dallas Stars

The 99th percentile in Colorado, and 9 points to show for it.

RW · Calgary Flames

6-8, undrafted, 112 penalty minutes, and he can actually skate.

D · Ottawa Senators

6-5, 53 penalty minutes, and the 89th percentile.

LW · Toronto Maple Leafs

66 points, minus 30, and 62 per cent of his shots from inside 20 feet.