It may seem impossible to use a single statistic to define an NHL team.
However, we're going to try.
Some stats reveal plenty about a teams' problems, whether as a measure of positional play in goal, at the forward ranks or the group of defensemen. In some cases, it's a combination of these that proves to be insurmountable for a team trying to make it to the playoffs.
Using a mixture of advanced stats and your everyday numbers, we've discovered a wide range of statistics that trouble us and have applied one to every single NHL franchise based on its play in the 2015-16 season.