Armchair Scout
Colin Blackwell

Photo by Jenn G, CC BY-SA 2.0

Colin Blackwell

Dallas Stars Center #15

Five foot eight, a hundred and ninety-fourth overall, and three hundred and sixty-eight NHL games.

SeasonGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2025-267041115-240001616.611:54
Career3684561106-811344644210.212:18

Last Season

Four goals and 11 assists in 70 games — 15 points, minus-two, at 11:54 a night with 40 penalty minutes.

The Finesse Game

Thin. A hundred unblocked attempts from a median of 29 feet, four goals, with only 32 per cent from inside twenty — one of the few Dallas forwards whose shot chart does not point at the net.

A hundred and six points in 368 career games. He is not here to score.

The Physical Game

Five foot eight and 181 pounds, and forty penalty minutes in eleven minutes a night. That rate, at that size, is the entire report: he forechecks hard, finishes checks on men who outweigh him by forty pounds, and does not back away from anything.

The Intangibles

Forty-six point three per cent of the expected goals, 21st percentile, in 697 minutes — fourth-line results on a club whose fourth line was outshot by design.

Six points in his last ten.

He is 33, a hundred and ninety-fourth overall pick out of Harvard, and he has made 368 NHL games out of a body nobody would have bet on. That is the story, and there is no version of the arithmetic that captures it.