As free agency activity wore down, each of our beat writers took a look at what they expect next year’s lineup to look like for their respective team. Offseason projections are stuff of what-if’s and possibilities, but they might also be one of the times we look at a team individually without a lot of context from the league as a whole.



So the question came to mind — how would each of these rosters stack up against one another?



To answer this question, Shayna Goldman and I ran each writer’s expected lineup through Sean Tierney’s lineup tool to evaluate each roster against the same set of measures and calculations.



You can read more on how the lineup tool works here, but basically it evaluates a lineup in terms of combinations and the anticipated ice time based on role. Then, using wins above replacement (WAR) data from Evolving-Hockey, each team’s anticipated standings points is calculated.



There are some important...