It’s mid-July, the official dog days of the offseason. It’s the opposite of Bob Cole’s classic playoff call: Nothing is happening.



Nothing else will likely happen either (this guarantees that Erik Karlsson, Jeff Skinner and Justin Faulk all get traded within five minutes of posting) which makes it a good time to take a closer look at each team’s offseason so far and grade it appropriately.



There are many factors that go into what makes a good offseason, but this post will mostly focus on value: mainly which teams are better now than they were at the end of last season through the eyes of my model based on Game Score.



In a vacuum, here’s how that looks with regards to every player added and lost for each team.



In a vacuum. Context is key and for some teams the chart above isn’t the whole story, far from it. Some teams made big additions, but may only see marginal improvement. Other teams may have lost more than they...