Players

G · Buffalo Sabres

Undrafted, 33, and finished the season going the wrong way.

D · Nashville Predators

3rd percentile in shot attempts, and 1 goal in 486 games.

D · Minnesota Wild

2 Cups, 800 games, and a defenceman whose whole job is to be unremarkable.

LW · New York Islanders

Minus 23, and 118 career assists.

C · Colorado Avalanche

The fastest hard skater in hockey, still adding points at 30, and the engine of everything this team does.

C · New York Islanders

Undrafted, 172 games, and 40 penalty minutes from the fourth line.

D · Seattle Kraken

278 games, plus 8, and the 1st percentile.

D · St. Louis Blues

67 games, 48 penalty minutes, and a median shot from 51 feet.

D · Colorado Avalanche

The best defenceman in the world, and the argument that skating is a more valuable thing to be built out of than size.

LW · Buffalo Sabres

14 points, and he takes his shots from closer than most of the men who scored 40.

D · Colorado Avalanche

An undrafted defenceman who was plus-43, which is the highest number in this edition.

C · Pittsburgh Penguins

1,269 games, 1,407 points, and 14 in his last 10.

LW · Anaheim Ducks

6-5, 71 career games at 30, and the best on-ice rate on the roster.

D · Vancouver Canucks

6-3, 24 games, and the nought-th percentile.

LW · Chicago Blackhawks

131 career goals, 8 of them last season.

D · Colorado Avalanche

A heavy defensive defenceman who was plus-42 and took 91 penalty minutes doing it.

RW · New Jersey Devils

6-5, 33 goals, and plus-10 on a club that was minus-36.

LW · Florida Panthers

5-9, 38 years old, 1,034 points.

RW · Columbus Blue Jackets

102 goals in 292 games, from a second-round pick.

C · Nashville Predators

5-9, 574 points, and the 9th percentile.

LW · San Jose Sharks

6-5, undrafted, and plus 17.

D · Utah Mammoth

Plus 42, 32 assists, and 4 goals.

G · Florida Panthers

A .883, on a team that gave up the twelfth-fewest chances in the league.

RW · Vegas Golden Knights

738 games, 576 assists, and the 92nd percentile.

LW · Carolina Hurricanes

12 goals, 797 games, and the letter on his jersey is the point.

D · Columbus Blue Jackets

5-11, 13 goals from the blue line, and a minus-21 in the goals column.

D · Montréal Canadiens

A late-blooming defenceman playing the most difficult 24 minutes on a young team.

D · Ottawa Senators

Undrafted, no goals in 95 games, and the 15th percentile in possession.

C · Toronto Maple Leafs

428 goals in 689 games, and 53 points.

D · New York Islanders

83 penalty minutes, 2 goals, and a median shot from 55 feet.

D · Boston Bruins

61 points and 24 minutes a night, and the results in those minutes were merely average.

C · Utah Mammoth

6-4, 63 per cent of his shots from inside 20 feet, and 9 goals.

D · Toronto Maple Leafs

723 games, 22 and a half minutes, and the 7th percentile.

LW · Seattle Kraken

20 goals in 52 games, and the best chance share on the club.

C · Minnesota Wild

6-6, 93 penalty minutes, and the most difficult minus-16 on the roster to interpret.

C · Edmonton Oilers

The fastest player in the league is also its most patient one; the danger is not the speed itself but what he does at the end of it.

D · Tampa Bay Lightning

1,058 games, and 6 penalty minutes in 48 of them.

C · Buffalo Sabres

54 points, plus 25, and a 5-on-5 record that tells a different story.

C · Seattle Kraken

Undrafted, 29 goals, and the 16th percentile behind them.

LW · St. Louis Blues

46 points, and 52 per cent of his shots from inside 20 feet.

D · Vegas Golden Knights

885 games, 38 goals, and the 83rd percentile.

C · St. Louis Blues

The third pick in 2021, 41 points, and the 85th percentile.

RW · New Jersey Devils

269 shots, 24 goals, and the 90th percentile.

C · New Jersey Devils

20 goals, and 49 per cent of his shots from inside 20 feet.

G · Ottawa Senators

A .860 in 20 games, behind the league's best defence.

G · Columbus Blue Jackets

274 games, and a .883 that has taken the job away from him.

D · Buffalo Sabres

5-9, undrafted, and an NHL debut at 26.

C · Seattle Kraken

Undrafted, 5-11, and the 66th percentile.

RW · Philadelphia Flyers

5-10, 172 pounds, and 71 penalty minutes.

D · Calgary Flames

210th overall, 381 games, and a shot share in the 20th percentile.

RW · Tampa Bay Lightning

Undrafted, 18 goals, and the 3rd percentile.

D · Florida Panthers

6-6, chances dead level, and the goals went 33 to 58 against.

C · New York Rangers

53 points, and the worst plus-minus in this book.

D · Carolina Hurricanes

61.7 per cent of the shot attempts — the highest figure of any player in this book.

C · Boston Bruins

Plus 21 at 21, and the best on-ice rate of any forward on the roster.

D · Anaheim Ducks

A 10th overall pick at 22 with 204 games behind him, and the numbers have not started agreeing yet.

C · San Jose Sharks

19 years old, and 62 per cent of his shots from inside 20 feet.

C · Boston Bruins

The 8th overall pick is now a useful third-line centre, which is not nothing and is not what was promised.

C · Columbus Blue Jackets

896 games, and 57 per cent of his shots from inside 20 feet.

G · Montréal Canadiens

The incumbent starter who lost the job, in the worst season of his career.