Players

C · Winnipeg Jets

A hundred-point centre at thirty-three who has spent his whole career being told what he is not.

C · New York Islanders

Eleven hundred and two games, and a minus-twenty-eight.

G · Florida Panthers

Six foot five, a .8925, and the better of the two goaltenders Florida used.

D · New York Rangers

Fourteen hundred minutes at the tenth percentile, and two goals.

C · Colorado Avalanche

A fifteen-year veteran with a Cup, still useful in a middle-six role at thirty-four.

C · Florida Panthers

Five goals in twenty-nine games from the fourth line, and three in his last ten.

D · Florida Panthers

Sixty-eight penalty minutes, no goals, and sixty shots from a median of fifty-four feet.

D · Philadelphia Flyers

Four hundred and fifty-three games, fifteen goals, and a median shot from fifty-five feet.

C · Dallas Stars

A thousand and sixteen games, and twenty-seven of them last season.

D · Detroit Red Wings

Twenty-five and a half minutes a night, sixty points, and a thirty-two goal shortfall behind him.

RW · Anaheim Ducks

Sixty points as a nineteen-year-old rookie, and a minus-twelve that says less than it looks.

D · Columbus Blue Jackets

Eight hundred and fifty-five games, and the best expected-goal share on the roster.

RW · Minnesota Wild

An undrafted KHL scorer who arrived at twenty-five and looked, in a bottom-six role, like he could do more.

C · Calgary Flames

A hundred and sixteen career goals, and the thirteenth percentile last season.

C · Minnesota Wild

A relentless small forward whose career has been decided by his knees rather than his game.

D · Edmonton Oilers

A fourth-round pick who spent six years in the minors and then, at twenty-eight, played eighty games and was plus-thirty.

LW · Buffalo Sabres

Five foot eight, undrafted, two Stanley Cups, and six hundred and fifty-five games.

LW · San Jose Sharks

Undrafted, twenty-three goals, and thirty-four per cent of his shots from beyond forty feet.

G · New York Rangers

A career .9165, behind a club that finished twenty-ninth in generating offence.

D · New Jersey Devils

Ten goals in four hundred and forty-nine games, and fourteen hundred minutes of the hard stuff.

C · Columbus Blue Jackets

Thirty-three points, and a shot chart that has not moved in five seasons.

G · Pittsburgh Penguins

A .8873, and a .852 finish, on a club that scored two hundred and eighty-six goals.

G · Winnipeg Jets

A goaltender who played fifty games for a contender and was never quite trusted, arriving somewhere he will be.

D · Nashville Predators

Fourteen hundred and seventy minutes, and the twenty-fifth percentile in all of them.

LW · Montréal Canadiens

The first overall pick who took three years to look like one, and then scored thirty goals.

LW · Chicago Blackhawks

Second percentile in expected goals, and half his shots from the right place.

D · Carolina Hurricanes

Four penalty minutes in thirty-nine games, which is the most Slavin number ever recorded.

RW · Chicago Blackhawks

Fifty-five per cent of his shots from inside twenty feet, from a fourth-liner.

C · San Jose Sharks

Fifty-nine points at twenty-one, and a median shot from twenty-nine feet.

G · Chicago Blackhawks

A .880 in twenty-six games, and the reason the starter played fifty-five.

LW · Pittsburgh Penguins

Six foot eight, two hundred and fifty-two pounds, and the second-heaviest man in this book.

D · Pittsburgh Penguins

The hundredth percentile in expected goals, in three hundred and seventy-four minutes.

G · New York Islanders

Twenty goals better than the chances he faced, on the league's worst penalty kill.

D · Ottawa Senators

The ninety-ninth percentile in both columns, and the goals still went against him.

D · Minnesota Wild

Five-foot-nine, a thousand games, and still taking the hardest defensive assignment on most nights.

C · Carolina Hurricanes

Fourteen hundred games, twenty seasons, and he still shoots from eighteen feet.

C · Nashville Predators

Forty-two goals at thirty-six, and a minus-seventeen that says nothing about him.

C · Carolina Hurricanes

Five foot eight, a hundred and sixty-five pounds, and the hundredth percentile in shot attempts.

D · Edmonton Oilers

A small, mobile seventh defenseman who has been on the edge of a full-time job for four years.

C · Dallas Stars

Four hundred and ninety-one games of being the fourth-line centre a good team needs.

C · Boston Bruins

On for thirty-two goals and twelve against in four hundred and fifty-eight minutes, which is not a real thing.

C · Seattle Kraken

Forty-nine points, minus twenty-four, and the worst chance share in the National Hockey League.

C · Calgary Flames

Five hundred career points, and a season that reads like the end of the useful part.

D · Montréal Canadiens

A physical third-pairing defenceman who spent last season partnered with the most creative player on the team.

C · Minnesota Wild

An undrafted German centre who has made a career out of faceoffs, penalty killing and being where he is supposed to be.

C · Ottawa Senators

Eighty-three points, and forty-five per cent of his shots from inside twenty feet.

C · Montréal Canadiens

A hundred-point captain who does not have a single spectacular tool, and is the best player on his team by a distance.

C · Colorado Avalanche

A first-round Russian centre in a fourth-line role, defensively sound and offensively invisible.

RW · Carolina Hurricanes

Thirty-one goals, and the first season in a while that looked like the second overall pick.

G · Boston Bruins

The reason a mediocre team finished with a good record.

G · Detroit Red Wings

Six foot five, a career .897, and a backup job that keeps finding him.

C · Chicago Blackhawks

Minus thirty, six penalty minutes, and eight hundred and twenty-seven games of doing it the same quiet way.

RW · Anaheim Ducks

The most complete forward here, and the one most likely to be somewhere else.

LW · Montréal Canadiens

A French winger with real skill who has never turned it into consistent production in seven seasons.

C · Buffalo Sabres

Six foot six, forty goals, and a shot chart that says he is doing it the hard way.

D · Buffalo Sabres

Seventy shots, no goals, and the longest average shot distance in this edition.

RW · Philadelphia Flyers

Twenty-eight goals, and the seventy-eighth percentile behind them.

LW · Florida Panthers

Sixty per cent of the expected goals — ninety-ninth percentile — and his club still got outscored with him on the ice.

LW · Florida Panthers

Thirteen feet — the shortest average shot in this book — from a man who played thirty-one games.

D · Colorado Avalanche

The defenceman who makes the best defenceman in the world possible, and gets a fraction of the attention.