Lots of changes this off-season. I'm gonna look at a few different measures of how teams line up. These numbers were run a few days ago, so some of the TPA totals may be slightly out of whack and Past is still listed as a D, but I believe that's the only major difference.
First, my favourite metric; the starting 6 TPA. This takes the TPAs of the team's best three forwards, best two defensemen, and best goalie and adds em all together to try and see what they could ice as a power line, if you will.
You'll notice Vancouver is as superpowered as ever, so I can't wait for them to lose to Seattle in the first round. Calgary and D.C. are neck in neck, so watch for them to battle it out for the final playoff spot in the NA conference. Potentially the most interesting thing here is that someone appears worse than Davos! @Peace is convinced that they will not be last by any stretch, but simply based on this graph, I would be surprised to see them finish anywhere North of 11th. One last thing, Seattle and Riga have the exact same total, but as you'll see later on, they're driven from entirely different places.
I've already hit over 200 words, so there's no real reason for me to go on further. Here's the full data table of teams' TPA totals of their best 6/4/1. I assumed 200 TPA for the bots that Davos and Toronto are icing because I didn't want them to be zeroes but I don't know what the actual equivalent TPA is of their builds.
Like I referenced earlier, note how Seattle has 100 more TPA in their top F line but Riga has 100 more TPA in their top D line. At the time that I ran these numbers (before Past switched to F), Kastelic accounted for about 47% of Riga's top forward line's TPA. Also, note Calgary's top D pairing; best in the league despite their 6/2/1 sitting in 8th.
Team
Top line total
Top 6 F total
Top pair total
Top 4 D total
Starting 5 total
Goaltending
Starting 6 total
Total
VAN
3085
4960
1359
2551
4444
798
5242
8309
SEA
2439
4202
1639
2707
4078
900
4978
7809
RIG
2379
3897
1730
2882
4109
869
4978
7648
MAL
2426
4054
1783
2724
4209
732
4941
7510
MOS
2405
4015
1770
2602
4175
620
4795
7237
HSK
2487
4106
1284
2182
3771
807
4578
7095
NYA
2357
3904
1580
2497
3937
630
4567
7031
CGY
1878
2979
1833
3092
3711
625
4336
6696
DCD
2221
3532
1271
2102
3492
860
4352
6494
PRG
1755
3039
1083
2116
2838
759
3597
5914
TOR
1400
2655
865
1373
2265
425
2690
4453
DAV
1600
2299
961
1521
2561
314
2875
4134
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