Andrew Copp

Last Season

Nine goals and 34 assists in 79 games — 43 points, plus-three, at 16:34 a night.

The Finesse Game

The most frustrating shot chart in this edition. Sixty per cent of his unblocked attempts came from inside twenty feet, with a median of fifteen — the second-shortest average distance of any forward covered here, level with the men scoring thirty.

Nine goals came out of 182 attempts.

That is not a positioning problem, a system problem or a usage problem. He is standing in exactly the right place and cannot finish, and 123 goals in 779 career games says he never could.

The thirty-four assists are real and are the reason he plays.

The Physical Game

Six foot one, 200, and he plays a hard two-way game. Twenty-four penalty minutes. He wins faceoffs and kills penalties on the seventh-best unit in the league.

The Intangibles

Forty-nine point three per cent of the expected goals, 47th percentile — the club average, in the middle six.

No goals in his last ten. He is 32, a fourth-round pick with 343 points, and a genuinely useful third-line centre.

If you want one page that explains why expected goals and goals are different things, it is this one: he generates chances from the best ice on the roster and converts them at half the rate a finisher would.