Jordan Martinook

Last Season

Twelve goals and 17 assists in 77 games — 29 points, plus-six, at 14:50 a night. Seven points in his last ten games.

The Finesse Game

Limited and honestly deployed. A hundred and eighty-nine unblocked attempts from a median of 29 feet with 34 per cent inside twenty, and twelve goals. A hundred and seven goals in 797 career games.

He is not going to create anything. He is going to get the puck deep, chase it down, and give it to somebody who can.

The Physical Game

Six foot one, 208, and it is what he is for. He forechecks with genuine violence, finishes every check, and kills penalties on the best unit in the league. Thirty-five penalty minutes.

At 34 he is still doing all of it, which is the part that surprises.

The Intangibles

Fifty-three point four per cent of the expected goals, 79th percentile, and 59.4 per cent of the shot attempts, 98th, across 959 minutes.

The goals went 34-48 against him — the worst margin on the club — while the expected goals went 42.6 to 37.2 in his favour. A twenty-goal swing the wrong way, in the hardest minutes, and none of it is visible in anything he did.

He is a twelve-year veteran, an alternate captain, and precisely the kind of player a possession team needs when the ice tightens in the spring. This is a page where the scouting read matters more than the arithmetic, and it says he is worth more in May than in November.