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2026-27 season preview
Vancouver Canucks
30-44-1070 pts32nd of 32
Goals for
2.47
30th in the league
Goals against
3.53
32nd in the league
Power play
21.8%
14th in the league
Kodo projects the Vancouver Canucks for 30-44-10 (70 pts). The fantasy engine runs through Elias Pettersson and Jake DeBrusk. 2 core skaters project to rise and 5 to slip. Kevin Lankinen is the projected starter.
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The crease
Kevin Lankinen
Kevin Lankinen projects the crease (~45 starts), but Leevi Meriläinen (~36) makes it more timeshare than lock
Contents · 12 sections
ReportedMarco Rossi — DeBrusk (flu) out tonight against Flames, Raty makes season debut, Merilainen may get net.
Projected lines, pairings:
Rossi-Pettersson-Karlsson
Ohgren-Cotter-Boeser
O'Connor-Raty-Gallagher
Bains-Sasson-Lekkerimaki
Buium-Hronek
Oleksiak-Willander
Pettersson-Schenn
#Canucks · @benkuzma ↗2026-10-03
ReportedCaleb Malhotra — 17 skaters on the ice for an optional #Canucks morning skate, with just a small group of veteran forwards taking the option.
Meriläinen is in the net usually occupied by the Vancouver starter, although I’d note that I’m not 100% certain if that’s an indicator for Malhotra yet. https://t.co/1ExX5mvoj1 · @ThomasDrance ↗2026-10-03
ReportedJake DeBrusk — “Obviously I’d be super disappointed,” said Jake DeBrusk, who skated as an extra at #Canucks practice Friday, about possibly being a healthy scratch this weekend.
Of course, it’s not quite that simple.
3 thoughts on Malhotra’s lineup tweaks. Unlocked: https://t.co/dTcGyluaTz · @ThomasDrance ↗2026-10-02
ReportedJonathan Lekkerimäki — #Canucks lines rushes at practice:
Rossi - Pettersson - Karlsson
Öhgren - Cotter - Boeser
*O’Connor - Räty - Gallagher*
Bains - Sasson - Lekkerimäki
Buium - Hronek
Oleksiak - Willander
Pettersson - Schenn
*O’Connor, Gallagher & DeBrusk have been rotating in together. · @tyson_cole ↗2026-10-02
ReportedMarco Rossi — Rossi redirects it in, but the call on the ice is no goal. #LetsGoOilers · @EdmontonOilers ↗2026-10-02
Each item names its source. Kodo's own projected line changes are not reported here.
25-2626-27Change
Goals for2.5630th2.4731st-0.09▼1
Goals against3.8332nd3.5332nd-0.30
Power play21.814th21.3514th=-0.45~
Penalty kill71.532nd78.6310th+7.13▲22
Faceoffs49.320th50.1414th+0.84▲6
Points percentage0.35432nd0.41732nd+0.063
How these projections are made
Both bars share one scale per row — the wider of the two league ranges — so a bar that moves is a number that moved. The grey tick is that column's league average, and the arrow is the change in league rank. Goals-against and expected-goals-against rank ascending, so low is good and green always means improved.
Goals for, goals against and points percentage come from the roster: summed player projections over the real 26-27 schedule, last season's expected goals against regressed toward the league and adjusted for projected goaltending, and a game-by-game simulation of that schedule.
The special teams are projected from how much each number actually carries over year to year, measured across 298 team-season pairs going back to 2010-11. The power play uses one prior season shrunk 0.36; the penalty kill uses three, weighted .5/.3/.2 and shrunk 0.38. Special teams barely persist, so a league-worst penalty kill is mostly bad luck and comes most of the way back, while the faceoff dot is a repeatable team skill. How far a club moves depends on how far from the mean it started: Vancouver sits near league average on both the power play and the faceoff dot and barely shifts, while Edmonton's 30.6% power play comes back to the middle and this penalty kill, worst in the league, is the biggest riser of all 32.
The penalty kill averages three seasons because one measures it so badly. Split a single season's spread into ability and sampling noise — a kill rate is a binomial over about 250 opportunities, so the noise is known rather than guessed — and only 33% of the gap between clubs is real. Divide the year-over-year correlation by that and the ability underneath comes out near 1.0: penalty killing is almost perfectly persistent and merely hard to see in one season. The cure for a noisy measurement is more of it, and three seasons beat one by 4.3% out of sample. Because averaging reorders clubs, that row's rank is a real forecast; the rows marked = are single-season regressions, which compress the values but keep them in order, so their rank is last season's by construction and only the value is a prediction.
A roster-aware faceoff model was built and rejected on the evidence. Draw counts are not stored, but they can be recovered exactly from the per-game percentages, and with real draws a club's number reconstructs from its own centres. It still does not predict better: given a club's first half to learn from and even handed the second half's draw distribution, it scored 2.24 against the plain regression's 2.26 across 32 clubs, and the best blend of the two puts almost no weight on it. A team's faceoff percentage already carries who takes its draws. Expected goals has no team projection at all, so that row shows last season alone.
Goals for, goals against and points percentage come from the roster: summed player projections over the real 26-27 schedule, last season's expected goals against regressed toward the league and adjusted for projected goaltending, and a game-by-game simulation of that schedule.
The special teams are projected from how much each number actually carries over year to year, measured across 298 team-season pairs going back to 2010-11. The power play uses one prior season shrunk 0.36; the penalty kill uses three, weighted .5/.3/.2 and shrunk 0.38. Special teams barely persist, so a league-worst penalty kill is mostly bad luck and comes most of the way back, while the faceoff dot is a repeatable team skill. How far a club moves depends on how far from the mean it started: Vancouver sits near league average on both the power play and the faceoff dot and barely shifts, while Edmonton's 30.6% power play comes back to the middle and this penalty kill, worst in the league, is the biggest riser of all 32.
The penalty kill averages three seasons because one measures it so badly. Split a single season's spread into ability and sampling noise — a kill rate is a binomial over about 250 opportunities, so the noise is known rather than guessed — and only 33% of the gap between clubs is real. Divide the year-over-year correlation by that and the ability underneath comes out near 1.0: penalty killing is almost perfectly persistent and merely hard to see in one season. The cure for a noisy measurement is more of it, and three seasons beat one by 4.3% out of sample. Because averaging reorders clubs, that row's rank is a real forecast; the rows marked = are single-season regressions, which compress the values but keep them in order, so their rank is last season's by construction and only the value is a prediction.
A roster-aware faceoff model was built and rejected on the evidence. Draw counts are not stored, but they can be recovered exactly from the per-game percentages, and with real draws a club's number reconstructs from its own centres. It still does not predict better: given a club's first half to learn from and even handed the second half's draw distribution, it scored 2.24 against the plain regression's 2.26 across 32 clubs, and the best blend of the two puts almost no weight on it. A team's faceoff percentage already carries who takes its draws. Expected goals has no team projection at all, so that row shows last season alone.
They held about the same pace all year — -12 points of win percentage between the first quarter and the last.
Oct–Nov10-09 – 11-16
45%9-11
for3.10
against3.45
Nov–Jan11-17 – 01-03
33%7-14
for2.62
against3.52
Jan–Mar01-06 – 03-04
10%2-18
for2.00
against4.35
Mar–Apr03-06 – 04-16
33%7-14
for2.81
against4.10
Light nights
31%8th
26 of 84 games
Four-game weeks
622nd
5 weeks of two or fewer
Back-to-backs
1112th
roughly one backup start each
Playoff-week games
923rd
over 3 weeks · 1 back-to-back
Games per week
2026-09-28on light nights2027-04-05
Games by month
Sep*
1Oct
15Nov
13Dec
13Jan
14Feb
10Mar
14Apr*
4* part of a month — the season opens and closes mid-month.
Lineup notes
This is the lineup the club can ice on opening night, not its best-case group. A player expected to miss more than the opening month is left out and his slot goes to whoever takes it — he keeps his projection below, he is out of the lineup, not out of the season.
Projected ice time totals 298.1 of the 300 skater-minutes a game has. Power play 3.16′ on the first unit, 1.79′ on the second; the kill 2.35′, 1.67′ and 1′ across three units — all measured.Change this lineup →
Forward lines
L1
L2
L3
L4
Defence pairs
D1
D2
D3
Special teams
Scratches & depth
Life after Hughes
Quinn Hughes played his last game for this club on 2025-12-11 and is now in MIN. Team scoring went 2.74 → 2.49 goals a game over the 51 games after.
Defence — who took the minutes
toiafterΔp/gmafterΔ
Forwards
toiafterΔp/gmafterΔ
Not a controlled experiment — the same window also saw Myers leave 2026-02-04, Blueger leave 2026-04-16, Pettersson leave 2026-04-16, Garland leave 2026-03-04, Joseph leave 2026-04-09, Sherwood leave 2026-01-10, Douglas leave 2026-04-16, Hoglander leave 2026-04-16. Read the deltas as role changes, not pure cause and effect.
In Rossi, Buium, Gallagher, Ohgren, Cotter, Oleksiak, Schenn, Mynio, Alriksson, Chiarot, Fix-Wolansky, Patterson
Callup Lekkerimäki, Brisebois
Out Hughes→MIN, Sherwood→SJS, Garland→CBJ, Kane, Pettersson→NYR, Blueger, Myers→DAL, Joseph
12.5→16.1 +3.6
11.7→14.3 +2.6
13.2→15.7 +2.5
17→19.4 +2.4
19.6→21.6 +2
14.6→16.4 +1.8
25→26.7 +1.7
11.7→13.3 +1.6
Biggest projected minute changes either way — a club's ice time is a fixed budget, so the departures above are what free it up. Full board →
Top power-play unit — quarterback7.4 pts at stake
holds it
45 proj pts · 26.7′ · 2′ PP
vs
pushing
31 proj pts · 21.6′ · 2.4′ PP
Filip Hronekmodel favours the incumbentZeev Buium
The full read · every number checked against the data · 2026-08-10
The stakes. Quinn Hughes played his last game as a Canuck on 2025-12-11, and the quarterback spot on the top unit has been open since. Kodo prices the promotion at 10.8 points, on a gap of 1.40 measured power-play minutes per game. PP1 skaters averaged 3.15 last season (n=158) against 1.75 for PP2 (n=157). With Vancouver projected last in the league in points percentage at 0.35 and 30th in goals for at 2.56, the power play (21.8%, 14th of 32) is the most valuable real estate on this roster.
1.40 more min/game on PP1 (measured PP1 vs PP2 minutes), at the challenger's own scoring rate over a full season. Power-play gaps come from measured PP minutes last season; even-strength gaps from the role model that drives every projection on this page.
Top power-play unit — forward slot9.7 pts at stake
holds it
30 proj pts · 16.1′ · 1.5′ PP
vs
pushing
14 proj pts · 9.5′ · 0.3′ PP
Linus Karlssonmodel favours the incumbentPaul Cotter
Conversion
21.8%
on the man advantage
PP goals
55
564 shots
Expected goals
55.4
-0.4 vs actual
Shooting
9.8%
of PP shots go in
What left the power play
Hughes carried 18% of the power-play points on 6% of its minutes — a focal score of 2.97. He is not on this roster.
Sherwood carried 7% of the power-play points on 5% of its minutes — a focal score of 1.27. He is not on this roster.
Who it runs through · last season
PlayerPP/gmSharePPGPPAPPP/60ixGIPPFocal
2.68′56%311149.491.446%1.69
1.88′39%310139.231.454%1.63
2′42%417217.672.259%1.36
3.01′63%195245.915.356%1.04
3.11′65%418225.736.155%1.01
3.22′67%613194.727.146%0.84
1.45′30%2242.093.547%0.37
1.34′28%0331.910.8—0.33
0.5′10%00000.7—0
What IPP, focal and ixG mean
IPP is the share of the power-play goals he was on the ice for that he got a point on. It is the direct form of “the play runs through him”: two men can take the same unit minutes while one touches the puck on every goal and the other watches from the far circle. League average on the power play is 59%. It is computed from the on-ice record of every goal, corrected for the ~18% of goals with no on-ice row and shrunk toward the positional mean for thin samples, so it cannot exceed 1.
Focal is the older, cruder version — his share of the team's power-play points over his share of its minutes. It is team-relative, so it moves when a teammate is injured; IPP does not. ixG is the expected goals from his own shots on the man advantage. Minutes are measured, not modelled.
Focal is the older, cruder version — his share of the team's power-play points over his share of its minutes. It is team-relative, so it moves when a teammate is injured; IPP does not. ixG is the expected goals from his own shots on the man advantage. Minutes are measured, not modelled.
Projected PP1DeBrusk21 PPP (24 last yr)Boeser21 PPP (19 last yr)Pettersson24 PPP (22 last yr)Hronek17 PPP (21 last yr)Karlsson4 PPP (4 last yr)Rossi19 PPP (14 last yr)
Projected PP2Willander5 PPP (3 last yr)Buium14 PPP (13 last yr)Ohgren1 PPPLekkerimäki1 PPPCotter1 PPP (1 last yr)
Hits
17308th
projected, this roster · of 32
Blocks
104330th
projected, this roster · of 32
Shots
195732nd
projected, this roster · of 32
Penalty minutes
57230th
projected, this roster · of 32
Faceoff wins
203917th
projected, this roster · of 32
H+B
277316th
projected, this roster · of 32
S+H+B
472928th
projected, this roster · of 32
What actually moves these numbers
Penalty-kill time is the strongest driver of blocks we can measure. Across 1,504 consecutive season pairs, a skater who gains a minute of shorthanded time a game adds a median 9.5 blocks over 84 games — a defenceman 16 — and the effect runs monotonically the other way too: lose a minute and it is −15.6, or −25.9 for a defenceman. The PK column is here for that reason.
But it is mostly the minutes, not the man. Shorthanded time correlates +0.52 with blocks per 60 across players and only +0.14 within the same player year to year, which says coaches pick shot-blockers for the kill more than the kill turns anyone into one. A player promoted onto PK1 gains blocks because he is on the ice for more shots, not because he changed — so price the ice time, not a breakout.
Hits run opposite to ice time. Total minutes correlate −0.57 with hits per 60, and −0.60 among forwards: the fourth line hits, the first line does not. So a rate beats a total here more than in any other category, which is what the /60 columns are for — a checker on eleven minutes at 12 hits per 60 is worth more than a first-liner at 5 on nineteen, and their season totals can look identical.
Power-play time predicts the absence of all of it — −0.43 with hits per 60, −0.47 with blocks, −0.26 with penalty minutes. The men who run a power play are not the men who supply a banger roster, which is why the two sections of this page rarely name anybody twice.
Faceoff wins are a volume category. They track draws taken far more than win rate, so the man to want is the one taking the most — normally the first-line centre and whoever takes defensive-zone draws on the kill.
Measured on 2022-23 through 2025-26, skaters with 40+ games and 200+ minutes at both ends of each pair.
But it is mostly the minutes, not the man. Shorthanded time correlates +0.52 with blocks per 60 across players and only +0.14 within the same player year to year, which says coaches pick shot-blockers for the kill more than the kill turns anyone into one. A player promoted onto PK1 gains blocks because he is on the ice for more shots, not because he changed — so price the ice time, not a breakout.
Hits run opposite to ice time. Total minutes correlate −0.57 with hits per 60, and −0.60 among forwards: the fourth line hits, the first line does not. So a rate beats a total here more than in any other category, which is what the /60 columns are for — a checker on eleven minutes at 12 hits per 60 is worth more than a first-liner at 5 on nineteen, and their season totals can look identical.
Power-play time predicts the absence of all of it — −0.43 with hits per 60, −0.47 with blocks, −0.26 with penalty minutes. The men who run a power play are not the men who supply a banger roster, which is why the two sections of this page rarely name anybody twice.
Faceoff wins are a volume category. They track draws taken far more than win rate, so the man to want is the one taking the most — normally the first-line centre and whoever takes defensive-zone draws on the kill.
Measured on 2022-23 through 2025-26, skaters with 40+ games and 200+ minutes at both ends of each pair.
$83.1Mcommitted · 23 of 23 on file
11reach the market after this season
Pending free agents · this summer
| Brendan GallagherR | UFA | $6.50M | 25 pts |
|---|---|---|---|
| Filip ChytilC | UFA | $4.44M | 26 pts |
| Drew O'ConnorL | UFA | $2.50M | 26 pts |
| Luke SchennD | UFA | $2.25M | 5 pts |
| Paul CotterL | UFA | $2.15M | 14 pts |
| Leevi MeriläinenG | RFA | $1.10M | |
| Zeev BuiumD | RFA | $0.97M | 31 pts |
| Jonathan LekkerimäkiR | RFA | $0.92M | 5 pts |
| Liam OhgrenL | RFA | $0.89M | 18 pts |
| Aatu RätyC | RFA | $0.81M | 14 pts |
| Arshdeep BainsL | UFA | $0.81M | 3 pts |
Free the summer after
| Jamie OleksiakD | $5.00M | 9 pts |
|---|---|---|
| Marco RossiC | $5.00M | 52 pts |
| Linus KarlssonR | $2.25M | 30 pts |
| Victor ManciniD | $1.00M | 3 pts |
| Max SassonC | $1.00M | 17 pts |
| Tom WillanderD | $0.95M | 24 pts |
Biggest cap hits
| Elias PetterssonC | $11.60M | 5y left · NMC |
|---|---|---|
| Thatcher DemkoG | $8.50M | 2y left |
| Brock BoeserR | $7.25M | 5y left · NMC |
| Filip HronekD | $7.25M | 5y left · NMC |
| Brendan GallagherR | $6.50M | final yr · M-NTC, NMC |
| Jake DeBruskL | $5.50M | 4y left · NMC |
| Jamie OleksiakD | $5.00M | 1y left · M-NTC |
| Marco RossiC | $5.00M | 1y left |
Cap hits from CapWages for the 23 men on file. A dash is a figure we do not have, usually a restricted free agent whose entry-level deal has lapsed, and those are left out of the committed total rather than counted as nothing.
GSAx view
Lankinen
43 NHL starts last season
GSAx / start
-0.459lg -0.04057th pctile
Shot quality faced
0.1092lg 0.10481st hardest
10-start rolling GSAx · appearance 1-77 · shared scale
2026-27 projection
45 GS15 W (9–19)0.883 SV%3.53 GAA
2025-26 actual · NHL
43 GS11 W0.875 SV%3.70 GAA
Meriläinen
19 NHL starts last season, with OTT
GSAx / start
-1.058lg -0.04050th pctile
Shot quality faced
0.0961lg 0.1040th hardest
10-start rolling GSAx · appearance 1-46 · shared scale
2026-27 projection
36 GS14 W (8–18)0.888 SV%2.86 GAA
2025-26 actual · NHL
19 GS8 W0.860 SV%3.51 GAA
Demko
20 NHL starts last seasonOUT · Hip
GSAx / start
0.193lg -0.040569th pctile
Shot quality faced
0.1126lg 0.10491st hardest
10-start rolling GSAx · appearance 1-30 · shared scale
2026-27 projection
4 GS2 W (1–2)0.893 SV%2.79 GAA
2025-26 actual · NHL
20 GS8 W0.897 SV%2.90 GAA
Tolopilogone
18 NHL starts last season
GSAx / start
-0.098lg -0.040545th pctile
Shot quality faced
0.1155lg 0.10494th hardest
10-start rolling GSAx · appearance 1-41 · shared scale
2026-27 projection
— GS— W— SV%— GAA
2025-26 actual · NHL
18 GS6 W0.881 SV%3.61 GAA
Pateragone
1 NHL start last season
GSAx / start
—Shot quality faced
0.0897lg 0.1040th hardest
10-start rolling GSAx · appearance 1-16 · shared scale
2026-27 projection
— GS— W— SV%— GAA
2025-26 actual · NHL
1 GS0 W0.825 SV%7.39 GAA
GSAx is goals saved above expected — what the shots he faced were worth, minus what he actually allowed. Shown per start, because a backup cannot out-accumulate a starter but can out-perform him on a per-night basis. Shot quality faced is expected goals per shot: higher means he was hung out to dry more often, and the percentile is where that workload ranks among goalies with 15+ starts. Rolling form is a 10-start moving average — is he playing well lately; running total is the season's accumulated damage. Per-game GSAx is too noisy to read either from directly.
Projections — Every Skater
the reference table · Overall is value as a z-score against the league, so +1.00 is a standard deviation above average‹ 12 / 12Forwards · 14
| Player | Role | Age | Overall | ADP | GP | G | A | P / if fit | PPP | SHP | SOG | HIT | BLK | PIM | +/- | FOW | H+B | S+H+B | Trajectory | Signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elias Pettersson (C) | L1·PP1 | 28 | +1.03 | 127.3 | 77 | 20 | 41 | 60.9 | 24 | 1 | 141 | 78 | 100 | 20 | -17 | 608 | 178 | 319 | decliningice time ↑PP1 | |
| Jake DeBrusk | L4 | 30 | +0.73 | 207.6 | 81 | 26 | 20 | 45.9 | 21 | 0 | 192 | 77 | 38 | 15 | -18 | 12 | 115 | 307 | bounce-back | |
| Brock Boeser | L2·PP1 | 29 | +0.59 | 195 | 79 | 24 | 28 | 51.6 | 21 | 1 | 162 | 62 | 30 | 12 | -31 | 44 | 92 | 254 | decliningbounce-backPP1 | |
| Marco Rossi | L1·PP1 | 25 | +0.37 | 245.7 | 75 | 18 | 34 | 52.1 | 19 | 0 | 116 | 62 | 41 | 23 | -14 | 411 | 103 | 219 | ascendingice time ↑PP1 | |
| Drew O'Connor | L3 | 28 | -0.40 | 292.8 | 77 | 15 | 12 | 26.4 | 0 | 2 | 119 | 73 | 34 | 38 | -7 | 46 | 107 | 225 | ice time ↑ | |
| Linus Karlsson | L1·PP1 | 27 | -0.41 | 292.9 | 71 | 13 | 17 | 30.1 | 4 | 0 | 101 | 76 | 23 | 35 | -10 | 13 | 99 | 199 | ascendingbounce-backice time ↑PP1 | |
| Brendan Gallagher | L3 | 34 | -0.45 | 292 | 72 | 12 | 13 | 25.2 | 4 | 0 | 111 | 83 | 23 | 38 | -3 | 5 | 106 | 217 | decliningbounce-back | |
| Filip Chytil | 27 | -0.57 | 292.4 | 62 | 15 | 11 | 26/34 | 3 | 0 | 136 | 23 | 19 | 24 | -11 | 286 | 42 | 178 | |||
| Paul Cotter | L2·PP2 | 27 | -0.57 | 293 | 78 | 8 | 6 | 13.9 | 1 | 0 | 71 | 206 | 26 | 31 | -14 | 56 | 232 | 303 | declining | |
| Max Sasson | L4 | 26 | -0.80 | 293.1 | 78 | 10 | 7 | 17 | 4 | 0 | 93 | 48 | 50 | 34 | -5 | 119 | 98 | 191 | ice time ↑ | |
| Aatu Räty | L3 | 24 | -0.88 | 292.5 | 62 | 6 | 8 | 14.2 | 0 | 0 | 65 | 150 | 18 | 23 | -2 | 425 | 168 | 233 | ||
| Liam Ohgren | L2·PP2 | 22 | -0.89 | 292.4 | 65 | 8 | 10 | 17.9 | 1 | 1 | 96 | 66 | 37 | 8 | -8 | 9 | 103 | 199 | ice time ↑ | |
| Jonathan Lekkerimäki | L4·PP2 | 22 | -1.77 | 292.7 | 34 | 3 | 2 | 5.2/12 | 1 | 0 | 34 | 27 | 13 | 7 | -2 | 0 | 40 | 74 | — | ice time ↑ |
| Arshdeep Bains | 25 | -1.79 | 291.9 | 41 | 1 | 2 | 3.1 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 39 | 13 | 17 | -2 | 4 | 52 | 82 | — |
Shading is that man's percentile among all projected forwards in the league, not among these 14. top 10% top 20 top 30 bottom 20. H+B and S+H+B take the weaker leg, because good at both is a floor rather than an average. P, SHP, PIM, +/- and FOW are unshaded — the percentile block does not carry them.
Defence · 8
| Player | Role | Age | Overall | ADP | GP | G | A | P / if fit | PPP | SHP | SOG | HIT | BLK | PIM | +/- | FOW | H+B | S+H+B | Trajectory | Signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Filip Hronek | RD1·PP1 | 29 | +0.51 | 151.6 | 77 | 7 | 38 | 44.9 | 17 | 1 | 120 | 120 | 93 | 36 | -10 | 1 | 213 | 332 | ice time ↑PP1 | |
| Zeev Buium | LD1·PP2 | 21 | -0.37 | 184.2 | 79 | 7 | 24 | 30.8 | 14 | 0 | 91 | 32 | 70 | 43 | -14 | 0 | 102 | 192 | — | ice time ↑ |
| Tom Willander | RD2·PP2 | 21 | -0.67 | 292.7 | 76 | 5 | 19 | 23.7 | 5 | 0 | 76 | 40 | 90 | 33 | -9 | 0 | 130 | 206 | — | ice time ↑ |
| Jamie Oleksiak | LD2 | 34 | -0.79 | 293.2 | 79 | 2 | 7 | 8.8 | 0 | 0 | 71 | 100 | 121 | 36 | +5 | 0 | 221 | 292 | ||
| Luke Schenn | RD3 | 37 | -0.86 | 291.2 | 58 | 1 | 4 | 4.7 | 0 | 0 | 47 | 190 | 70 | 43 | -7 | 0 | 260 | 306 | ||
| Elias Pettersson (D) | LD3 | 22 | -0.99 | 292.9 | 67 | 2 | 5 | 6.9 | 0 | 0 | 53 | 124 | 79 | 38 | -7 | 0 | 203 | 255 | ||
| Victor Mancini | 24 | -1.56 | — | 46 | 1 | 3 | 3.3 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 55 | 57 | 17 | -6 | 0 | 111 | 147 | declining | ||
| Guillaume Brisebois | 29 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Shading is that man's percentile among all projected defencemen in the league, not among these 8. top 10% top 20 top 30 bottom 20. H+B and S+H+B take the weaker leg, because good at both is a floor rather than an average. P, SHP, PIM, +/- and FOW are unshaded — the percentile block does not carry them.
Goalies · 5
| Goalie | GS | W | L | OTL | SV% | GAA | SV | SA | GA | SHO | GSAx | GSAx/GS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kevin Lankinen | 45 | 15 | 25 | 5 | 0.883 | 3.53 | 1170 | 1325 | 155 | 1.1 | -19.7 | -0.459 |
| Leevi Meriläinen | 36 | 14 | 17 | 4 | 0.888 | 2.86 | 799 | 899 | 100 | 1.8 | -20.1 | -1.058 |
| Thatcher Demko | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0.893 | 2.79 | 92 | 103 | 11 | 0.3 | +3.9 | 0.193 |
| Nikita Tolopilo | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -1.8 | -0.098 |
| Jiri Patera | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -3.4 | — |
Projected record and projected ice time are model estimates; ranks, lines, projections and trend signals trace to real data.