Compare projected NHL lineups with forward lines, defense pairs, and special-teams units reconstructed from actual shift usage.
Fans should not have to fight through clutter or decode vague labels to understand who is playing together. We designed RosterLines to make full-team units easy to scan, changes easy to follow, and the origin of the information easy to understand.
Our best current view of how a team is expected to line up. Projections can change between games because of practices, injuries, roster moves, or coaching decisions.
A reconstruction of who actually shared the ice, inferred from synchronized NHL shift data. These are observed combinations—not official submitted lineup cards.
For every completed game, RosterLines aligns player shifts and identifies the exact skaters sharing the ice in each game state. Those appearances are aggregated into combinations with time together, games used, goals for and against, and scoring totals.
Because real NHL usage changes constantly, a player may appear in more than one historical combination. Confidence colors describe how much repeated evidence supports a combination—not how good the line is.
Trends compare the latest 3, 5, or 10 games with the immediately preceding equal-sized window. The default follows whichever competition has the newest ingested games—regular season or playoffs—and surfaces changes that may matter to fantasy players first.
Moving into the main power play, a top-line trio, a top-six trio, or a top defense pair receives the strongest ranking boost.
Team goals and combined points with the current group raise the ranking. Cards also show the featured player’s own goals, assists, and points when available.
Changes in group rank and usage share, current usage share, and appearances throughout the selected window contribute to the ranking.
These thresholds qualify a role signal; they do not declare an official depth-chart position or predict future fantasy points. The default Fantasy Impact view excludes penalty-kill changes, while the Penalty Kill filter remains available. Evidence describes how consistently a group appeared and is separate from fantasy relevance. Users can also sort by team goals, combined points, time-on-ice increase, or evidence strength.
Projected and historical views always remain distinct.
Published projections preserve sources and revision history.
Updates create a new revision instead of silently rewriting the past.