The NHL's 'most improved' club

Players who have bettered their points-per-game average from last season the most:

			2006-07		2007-08
	Name	Tm	Pts	PPG	Pts	PPG		Dif
1	Mike Richards	PHI	32	0.542	57	1.118		0.575
2	Joffrey Lupul	PHI	28	0.346	35	0.897		0.552
3	Jason Williams	CHI	32	0.410	19	0.950		0.540
4	R.J. Umberger	PHI	28	0.346	36	0.735		0.389
5	Mike Ribeiro	DAL	59	0.728	59	1.113		0.385
6	Nikolai Zherdev	COB	32	0.451	45	0.833		0.383
7	Matt Cullen	CAR	41	0.513	39	0.886		0.374
8	Ryan Getzlaf	ANA	58	0.707	58	1.074		0.367
9	Radim Vrbata	PHO	41	0.532	40	0.851		0.319
10	Tomas Plekanec	MON	47	0.580	47	0.887		0.307
11	Shawn Horcoff	EDM	51	0.638	50	0.943		0.306
12	Ilya Kovalchuk	ATL	76	0.927	64	1.231		0.304
13	Henrik Zetterberg	DET	68	1.079	65	1.383		0.304
14	Patrick Sharp	CHI	35	0.438	37	0.740		0.303
15	Brad Boyes	STL	46	0.568	44	0.863		0.295
16	Daniel Alfredsson	OTT	87	1.130	68	1.417		0.287
17	Corey Perry	ANA	44	0.537	46	0.821		0.285
18	Alexei Kovalev	MON	47	0.644	49	0.925		0.281
19	Jere Lehtinen	DAL	43	0.589	20	0.870		0.281
20	Antti Miettinen	DAL	25	0.338	27	0.614		0.276
21	Vaclav Prospal	TAM	55	0.671	50	0.943		0.273
22	Jiri Hudler	DET	25	0.329	32	0.593		0.264
23	Cory Stillman	CAR	27	0.628	45	0.865		0.237
24	Dustin Brown	LOS	46	0.568	41	0.788		0.221
25	Jaroslav Spacek	BUF	21	0.323	21	0.538		0.215
26	Brent Burns	MIN	25	0.325	28	0.538		0.214
27	Shane Doan	PHO	55	0.753	49	0.961		0.207
28	Mark Streit	MON	36	0.474	36	0.679		0.206
29	Pavel Kubina	TOR	21	0.344	24	0.545		0.201
30	Alexander Ovechkin	WAS	92	1.122	70	1.321		0.199

It's pretty impressive Ovechkin can sneak onto this list despite putting up 92 points last year.

Three Flyers take up three of the four top spots: The most improved team with a lot of the most improved players. And losing Jason Williams to injury has been a big blow for the Blackhawks.

A few other players of interest on this list:

Zherdev's finally becoming a top-flight scorer in Columbus, and a lot of the credit there has to go to GM Scott Howson and coach Ken Hitchcock for mending fences in the off-season.

The Ducks would be in big trouble if Getzlaf was a 58-point player again.

Zetterberg's slowed down since his early, 60-goal pace, but he's still headed for a big year if he can stay healthy.

Miettinen's very quietly had a nice breakout campaign for Dallas, which suddenly has some scoring depth.

And Doan's at long last headed for that big year everyone's waited 13 years for. Eighty points really isn't out of the realm of possibility.

I'll have the 'biggest disappointments' list up in the near future.