Braden Schneider

Last Season

Two goals and 16 assists in all 82 games — 18 points, minus-five, at 20:27 a night with 1,437 five-on-five minutes.

The Finesse Game

Almost none. A hundred and fifty-seven unblocked attempts from a median of 53 feet, four per cent from inside twenty, two goals. Eighty-seven points in 368 career games.

Sixteen assists in a full season of twenty-minute nights is a low number and there is no sign of more coming.

The Physical Game

Six foot three, 206, and this is the case for him. He hits hard, closes gaps aggressively, and is genuinely difficult to get past in a straight line. Twenty-six penalty minutes is disciplined for that style.

The Intangibles

Forty-four point one per cent of the expected goals, tenth percentile, and 45.9 per cent of the shot attempts, 16th, with the chances 47.1 to 59.7 against across fourteen hundred minutes.

That is a twelve-goal deficit in chances alone, in the second-most minutes on the club.

New York finished eleventh in even-strength expected goals against, which is a good number, and it was produced by Fox at the ninety-first percentile and Gavrikov at the fifty-second carrying two defencemen in the bottom sixth.

He is 24, a nineteenth overall pick, and 368 games in. No goals in his last ten. The physical game is real and the results have never once agreed with it.