David Jiricek

Last Season

No goals and no assists in 26 games, even in plus-minus, at 12:01 a night with 16 penalty minutes.

Thirteen points in 85 career games.

The Finesse Game

Twenty-three unblocked attempts from a median of 55 feet, four per cent from inside twenty, and none went in. Sixteen shots on goal across 26 games.

He was drafted sixth overall as an offensive defenceman with a heavy shot. Four seasons in there is no evidence of either.

The Physical Game

Six foot four, 204, and he defends adequately. Sixteen penalty minutes in 26 games.

The skating is the recurring criticism and it is why two organisations have now moved him.

The Intangibles

Forty-five point seven per cent of the expected goals, 16th percentile, and 46.3 per cent of the shot attempts, 20th, across 298 minutes.

Small sample, poor numbers, no points.

He is 22, the sixth pick in 2022, and already on his third organisation — Columbus traded him after two seasons, which for a top-ten pick that recent is a loud statement.

There is time. There is not much evidence, and a scoreless twenty-six games at twenty-two is not the sort of thing that gets better on its own.