Jacob Bernard-Docker

Last Season

One goal and four assists in 63 games — five points, even in plus-minus, at 14:49 a night with 25 penalty minutes.

The Finesse Game

Almost none. Sixty-four unblocked attempts from a median of 61 feet — the longest average distance in this edition — with two per cent inside twenty, and one goal.

Twenty-nine points in 207 career games. He is a defensive defenceman without the physical presence that usually accompanies the label.

The Physical Game

Six foot one, 196, and he defends with position rather than force. Twenty-five penalty minutes in 63 games.

The Intangibles

Forty-six per cent of the expected goals, 18th percentile, and 45 per cent of the shot attempts, 12th, across 842 minutes.

One point in his last ten.

He is 26, a first-round pick in 2018 on his second organisation, and a sixth defenceman. On a Detroit blue line where four of six regulars posted numbers in the bottom fifth, he is the least surprising of them and the least consequential.