Brayden McNabb

Last Season

Five goals and seven assists in 63 games — 12 points, plus-two, at 20:31 a night with 26 penalty minutes. Nineteen games missed.

His 885th career game.

The Finesse Game

A hundred and twenty-eight unblocked attempts from a median of 52 feet, 66 per cent from beyond forty, five goals.

Thirty-eight goals in 885 career games. Seven assists in 63 games is close to the bottom of this edition and no club has ever asked him for anything else.

The Physical Game

Six foot four and 215 pounds, and one of the most consistently punishing defencemen of the last decade — he clears his crease, finishes every check, and blocks a great many shots.

Twenty-six penalty minutes at twenty minutes a night is remarkably disciplined for the way he plays.

The Intangibles

Fifty-four point one per cent of the expected goals, 83rd percentile, and 51.8 per cent of the shot attempts, 74th, across 1,133 minutes, with the chances 49.1 to 41.7 in his favour.

The goals came out 41-40. Nine seasons in Vegas, from the expansion draft to a Stanley Cup, in the same role throughout.

Four points in his last ten. He is 35, a third-round pick, and nineteen games missed is the number to watch on a blue line that is otherwise the best part of this club.