Barrett Hayton

Last Season

Ten goals and 15 assists in 67 games — 25 points, plus-three, at 15:07 a night with four power-play goals and 54 penalty minutes. Fifteen games missed.

A hundred and fifty-five points in 358 career games.

The Finesse Game

The shot chart is excellent and the finish is not. A hundred and sixty-six unblocked attempts with 55 per cent from inside twenty feet and a median of sixteen, and only ten goals.

That is a centre standing in exactly the right place and not converting, which is the least alarming version of a scoring problem and also the most persistent one — seven seasons in, he has never scored twenty.

Fifteen assists in 67 games is modest.

The Physical Game

Six foot one, 200, and he plays a genuinely hard two-way game. Fifty-four penalty minutes in fifteen minutes a night is a high rate.

He wins draws, kills penalties, and goes to the interior. The compete has never been the question.

The Intangibles

Fifty-six point four per cent of the expected goals, 94th percentile, and 54.2 per cent of the shot attempts, 87th, across 854 minutes, with the chances 38.7 to 29.9 in his favour and the goals 40-34.

Those are the second-best chance-share figures on the club and they sit under twenty-five points.

Four points in his last ten, three of them goals. He is 26, the fifth pick in 2018, and the gap between what the underlying numbers say about his season and what the scoresheet says is as wide as any in this edition.