Colton Sissons

Last Season

Six goals and five assists in 66 games — 11 points, minus-11, at 12:30 a night with 28 penalty minutes. His five-on-five work was done in Vegas.

His 756th career game.

The Finesse Game

A hundred and six unblocked attempts, six goals, median 18 feet with 53 per cent from inside twenty — the location is right and the volume and the finish are not.

Two hundred and thirty-two points in 756 career games. Five assists in 66 games is among the lowest returns in this edition.

The Physical Game

Six foot one, 200, and a hard, positionally disciplined checking centre. Twenty-eight penalty minutes.

He wins faceoffs, kills penalties, and takes the defensive-zone start. That has been the entire job for twelve seasons and he does it well.

The Intangibles

Forty-nine point four per cent of the expected goals, 47th percentile, and 48.4 per cent of the shot attempts, 39th, across 704 minutes in Vegas.

Level chance share in a fourth-line role is the ceiling of this player and the number is honest.

He is 32, a fiftieth overall pick, and joins a club whose bottom six was the thinnest part of a very thin roster. Eleven points is what he is now; the checking is what he is being paid for.