Jack Hughes and Kaapo Kakko were tied for the lowest plus/minus by a rookie in 2019-20, at -26.

	NAME	+/-	SEASON	TM	GP	G	A	P	PIM	PPG	PPA	SHG	SHA	GWG	OTG	S	S%	FOW	FO	FOW%	HIT	BKS	TKA	GVA	TOI/GP
1	Jack Hughes J. Hughes	-26	2019-20	NJD	61	7	14	21	10	4	5	0	0	2	1	123	5.7	167	462	36.1	12	21	42	53	15:52
2	Kaapo Kakko K. Kakko	-26	2019-20	NYR	66	10	13	23	14	2	11	0	0	3	1	109	9.2	2	6	33.3	20	11	35	21	14:17
3	Mario Ferraro M. Ferraro	-15	2019-20	SJS	61	2	9	11	30	0	0	0	1	0	0	63	3.2	0	0		120	58	15	20	15:54
4	Nick Suzuki N. Suzuki	-15	2019-20	MTL	71	13	28	41	6	6	8	0	0	1	0	138	9.4	305	659	46.3	64	32	31	37	15:59
5	Sam Steel S. Steel	-13	2019-20	ANA	65	6	16	22	20	1	7	0	0	1	1	85	7.1	369	734	50.3	24	25	25	37	15:33
6	Filip Zadina F. Zadina	-13	2019-20	DET	28	8	7	15	2	4	3	0	0	1	0	60	13.3	1	1	100.0	11	10	12	17	15:10
7	Drake Batherson D. Batherson	-12	2019-20	OTT	23	3	7	10	13	1	5	0	0	0	0	32	9.4	4	7	57.1	51	11	5	5	15:34
8	Taro Hirose T. Hirose	-12	2019-20	DET	26	2	5	7	6	0	5	0	0	0	0	21	9.5	0	5	0.0	13	16	6	20	12:33
9	Jesper Boqvist J. Boqvist	-11	2019-20	NJD	35	4	0	4	8	1	0	0	0	0	0	41	9.8	5	16	31.3	37	16	13	11	10:57
10	Quinn Hughes Q. Hughes	-11	2019-20	VAN	68	8	45	53	22	3	22	0	0	2	1	126	6.3	0	0		7	46	35	60	21:53
11	Emil Bemstrom E. Bemstrom	-10	2019-20	CBJ	56	10	10	20	8	5	3	0	0	4	1	97	10.3	4	13	30.8	52	17	10	16	12:16
12	Mitchell Stephens M. Stephens	-9	2019-20	TBL	38	3	3	6	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	43	7.0	187	356	52.5	36	9	6	4	10:47
13	Carter Verhaeghe C. Verhaeghe	-9	2019-20	TBL	52	9	4	13	8	1	0	0	0	1	0	57	15.8	14	31	45.2	29	8	19	11	9:22
14	Erik Brännström E. Brännström	-9	2019-20	OTT	31	0	4	4	16	0	1	0	0	0	0	38	0.0	0	0		15	36	5	20	14:50
15	Andreas Englund A. Englund	-8	2019-20	OTT	24	0	3	3	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	10	0.0	0	0		58	16	4	5	10:54
16	Dylan Gambrell D. Gambrell	-8	2019-20	SJS	50	5	6	11	17	0	1	0	0	1	0	43	11.6	170	370	45.9	40	29	11	17	11:57
17	Dennis Gilbert D. Gilbert	-8	2019-20	CHI	21	1	2	3	38	0	0	0	0	0	0	12	8.3	0	0		74	33	2	4	15:41
18	Filip Chlapik F. Chlapik	-7	2019-20	OTT	31	3	3	6	10	0	0	0	0	1	0	27	11.1	12	31	38.7	71	11	8	6	8:46
19	Dante Fabbro D. Fabbro	-7	2019-20	NSH	64	5	6	11	38	1	0	0	0	0	0	92	5.4	0	0		54	85	23	39	19:02
20	Cody Glass C. Glass	-7	2019-20	VGK	39	5	7	12	6	1	5	0	0	1	0	51	9.8	60	143	42.0	15	6	18	17	13:22
21	Rasmus Sandin R. Sandin	-7	2019-20	TOR	28	1	7	8	10	0	2	0	0	1	0	22	4.5	0	0		33	22	2	15	14:19
22	Nikolai Prokhorkin N. Prokhorkin	-6	2019-20	LAK	43	4	10	14	6	0	3	0	0	1	0	63	6.3	101	212	47.6	38	7	19	14	12:06
23	Gustav Lindstrom G. Lindstrom	-6	2019-20	DET	16	0	1	1	14	0	1	0	0	0	0	9	0.0	0	0		19	15	3	7	16:32
24	Martin Necas M. Necas	-6	2019-20	CAR	64	16	20	36	20	5	4	0	0	3	0	88	18.2	13	48	27.1	65	19	23	36	14:10
25	Alexander Volkov A. Volkov	-6	2019-20	TBL	9	0	1	1	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	0.0	1	4	25.0	10	2	4	2	10:16