Ivan Barbashev

Last Season

Twenty-three goals and 38 assists in all 82 games — 61 points, plus-20, at 16:15 a night with only fourteen penalty minutes.

His 667th career game and his 351st point.

The Finesse Game

A hundred and ninety-three unblocked attempts, 23 goals, median 19 feet with 51 per cent from inside twenty and only fifteen per cent from beyond forty.

That is a very good chart and twenty-three goals in sixteen minutes a night is a career-best rate.

Thirty-eight assists is a career high by ten and the reason this was the best season of his life.

The Physical Game

Six foot even, 203, and he plays a heavy, honest forechecking game — he finishes checks, wins the wall, and goes to the net.

Fourteen penalty minutes in a full season is remarkably disciplined for the way he plays.

The Intangibles

Fifty-five point two per cent of the expected goals, 89th percentile, and 51.7 per cent of the shot attempts, 73rd, across 1,235 minutes, with the chances 56.6 to 45.9 in his favour and the goals 45-38.

Twelve points in his last ten. He is 30, a thirty-third overall pick, and two Stanley Cups — one in St. Louis as a fourth-liner, one in Vegas as a top-six winger. Sixty-one points is what the second version looks like now.