The dog days of the NHL offseason have arrived and news has slowed to a crawl. Justin Williams and Joe Thornton still haven’t re-signed, and Jake Gardiner remains without a home, but aside from that most of the biggest moves have been made. That makes it a good time to look at which teams stand to improve the most based on their offseason decisions.



There’ll be other confounding variables that decide how much better or worse a team is next season – team-wide regression, differing usage, breakouts, declines, roster make-up, rookies, luck, coaching – but this should give you a decent idea of which teams improved the most on paper. And which teams got worse.



That’s the only criteria here as we go down the list and measure how many wins a team added or subtracted from their bottom line based on who’s in and who’s out, though salary added is also an important criterion. Value is based on Game Score Value...