Colton Parayko

Last Season

Four goals and 14 assists in 77 games — 18 points, minus-six, at 22:12 a night with 23 penalty minutes. His 800th career game.

The Finesse Game

A hundred and seventy-four unblocked attempts from a median of 53 feet, 73 per cent of them from beyond forty, four goals.

The point shot used to be one of the heaviest in the league and it produced four goals last season. Eighty-one goals in 800 career games, and 232 assists.

Fourteen assists in 77 games is thin even for a defensive defenceman playing this many minutes.

The Physical Game

Six foot six and 228, and it is the whole game — he closes on a puck carrier with reach nobody else has, clears his crease, and blocks a great many shots.

Twenty-three penalty minutes in a full season at twenty-two minutes a night is remarkably disciplined for a man his size.

The Intangibles

Fifty-one per cent of the expected goals, 62nd percentile, against only 46.8 per cent of the shot attempts, 24th, across 1,463 minutes.

That four-point split is the same one Broberg posted beside him and it is what St. Louis is: a club that concedes volume from the outside and defends the slot. It works when the goaltending holds and it did not, quite.

Four points in his last ten, three of them goals. He is 33, a third-round pick, and one of four men left from the 2019 team. Eighteen points is the lowest full-season total of his career.