Players

G · Edmonton Oilers

One of the most efficient goaltenders of his generation, now thirty-six, coming off the worst save percentage of his career.

D · Los Angeles Kings

A fourth-round pick who quietly plays the hardest defensive minutes on the team and produces almost nothing, on purpose.

RW · Los Angeles Kings

A big Finnish winger who kills penalties, disappears for a month at a time, and then scores three goals in a week.

D · Edmonton Oilers

A 95-point defenseman with the hardest shot on the team and a turnover in him that will take a year off your life.

RW · Los Angeles Kings

Six-five, 230 pounds, and skates like a winger half his size — the question has always been what he does with it.

D · Los Angeles Kings

Nine hundred and fifty games of steady, unloved, entirely necessary defensive minutes.

D · Los Angeles Kings

A 22-year-old right-shot defenceman who already runs a power play and is still learning where to stand without the puck.

C · Edmonton Oilers

A 6-4 winger with a decent set of hands who has spent three years being almost ready.

C · Edmonton Oilers

A defensive center who has made a long career out of the shifts nobody wants and the faceoffs nobody counts.

D · Los Angeles Kings

Eighteen years, two Cups and 1,279 games in one sweater, still playing the most minutes on the team.

C · Edmonton Oilers

One of the two or three most dangerous goal-scorers alive, and he does it at a pace that looks like he is barely trying.

D · Los Angeles Kings

A two-time Cup winner whose entire job is to make sure nothing happens, and who is very good at it.

D · Los Angeles Kings

Six-five, mean about it, and last season the man asked to make a 22-year-old's mistakes disappear.

D · Edmonton Oilers

The defenseman who makes mistakes disappear — quietly, twenty minutes a night, against the other team's best.

D · Edmonton Oilers

A steady, unspectacular right-shot defenseman doing exactly what a third pair is supposed to do.

LW · Los Angeles Kings

The most naturally skilled forward on the roster, and the one whose season you can never predict in October.

G · Los Angeles Kings

A journeyman backup who quietly outplayed the starter last season.

C · Edmonton Oilers

A heavy, useful bottom-six forward coming off a year in which almost nothing went in.

C · Los Angeles Kings

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

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 · 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.

LW · Edmonton Oilers

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

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.

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.

LW · Edmonton Oilers

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

RW · Edmonton Oilers

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

RW · Edmonton Oilers

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

RW · Los Angeles Kings

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

G · Los Angeles Kings

A Stanley Cup starter having a mediocre season on a team that gave up too much of the wrong kind of chance.

RW · Los Angeles Kings

A third-round pick who has turned into a genuine top-six winger by doing the unglamorous parts properly.

C · Los Angeles Kings

A checking centre with a first-round pedigree who long ago made peace with what he is.

G · Edmonton Oilers

A small, brilliant, deeply unconventional goaltender whose college numbers have never once translated.

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.

LW · Los Angeles Kings

An undrafted winger who out-works his way into a top-six role and has never once looked comfortable there or out of place.

D · Edmonton Oilers

A long, mobile 6-4 Russian defenseman who has just started to look like the first-round pick he was.

D · Edmonton Oilers

Thirteen years of shutdown minutes on bad teams, arriving here with a body that has taken a great deal of punishment.

C · Edmonton Oilers

A first-overall pick who became something more useful than a star: the player who makes whichever line he is put on work.

LW · Los Angeles Kings

An undrafted Russian who became one of the great playmakers of his era, still producing at a rate that makes the defensive arguments academic.

RW · Los Angeles Kings

Forty-one years old, 1,464 games, and still standing exactly where he has always stood: in the goaltender's eyes.

D · Los Angeles Kings

A gifted small puck-mover who has spent five professional seasons unable to stay healthy or hold a spot.

RW · Edmonton Oilers

A tenth-overall pick who looked like a bust in Vancouver and has quietly turned into exactly the winger a skill team needs.

D · Edmonton Oilers

A 6-4 right-shot defenseman whose career has been mostly injuries and whose last look did not go well.

C · Edmonton Oilers

An undrafted German center who went from the DEL to a two-way NHL role in a single year.

C · Edmonton Oilers

Undersized, entirely unbothered by it, and the most promising young forward the organization has produced in a decade.

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.

D · Edmonton Oilers

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

C · Los Angeles Kings

The fifth pick in 2019, six years on, still trying to prove he belongs in an NHL lineup.

D · Edmonton Oilers

A skating, shooting, slightly reckless defenseman who was a spare part on three teams before anyone noticed how good he had gotten.

RW · Los Angeles Kings

An undrafted winger who reached the NHL at twenty-seven and spent last season proving he can hold a fourth-line job.

RW · Los Angeles Kings

A rookie sixth-round pick with 23 games, no goals, and an entirely open question in front of him.

C · Los Angeles Kings

Five-eight, thirty-nine years old, and still the best passer in most buildings he walks into.