Dylan Strome

This Season So Far

The 2022-23 season has not started. The empty row above is his, and both it and this paragraph fill in on their own from the morning after he first plays: what he has done, what it is worth against his own last season, and the run he is on when the two disagree.

Last Season

69 games for Chicago, 22 goals and 26 assists at 17:26 a night, minus-6, twenty-eight penalty minutes, 126 shots, five power-play goals and two game-winners. Third overall in 2015 by Arizona, six seasons, 273 games, 170 points.

The Finesse Game

Seventy-one per cent of his attempts came from inside twenty feet, the 8th-highest slot share of the 393 forwards who played forty games, at 6-4 and 200 pounds.

Twenty-two goals from 126 shots is 17.5 per cent, the 92nd percentile, off 6.28 shots per 60 at the 31st. Low volume, high conversion, an 18-foot median — the whole goal column comes from standing in the right place.

1.89 even-strength points per 60 is the 56th percentile and thirty-three per cent of his points came on the power play, off 2:42 a night.

2.34 takeaways per 60 is the 90th percentile against 1.10 giveaways at the 22nd, which is a genuinely good pair.

48.8 per cent of the expected goals is the 41st percentile and 48.4 per cent of the attempts the 33rd, out of 71.1 per cent offensive-zone starts — the 7th-highest of the 652 skaters who took two hundred end-zone starts. Three hundred and eighty-six attacking-zone shifts against 157, and shares beneath even out of them.

Chicago finished 29th in the league in attempt share, which explains a great deal and does not explain a 33rd-percentile share from the seventh-softest chair in hockey.

His ice went 46-41 against an expectation of 39.33-41.33 — nearly seven ahead in front and level behind.

The Physical Game

0.548 hits per 60 is the 8th-fewest of all 393 forwards, at 6-4 and 200 pounds.

1.65 blocks per 60 is the 46th percentile, and twenty-eight penalty minutes came out of sixty-nine games.

0.55 penalties drawn per 60 against 0.65 taken.

The Intangibles

1.346 bursts over twenty miles an hour per 60 is the 17th-fewest of the 365 tracked forwards and 22.2 mph is the 35th percentile, against 9.60 miles per 60 at the 45th.

He is 25, third overall in 2015, with 170 points in 273 games and a career minus-30. The shot chart, the conversion and the takeaway rate are real and they are worth a middle-six job. A 6-4 forward who records the eighth-fewest hits in the league and cannot beat even out of the seventh-softest chair in it is the reason a third-overall pick is on his third organisation at 25.