Kailer Yamamoto

Last Season

Thirteen goals and 10 assists in 59 games — 23 points, plus-11, at 11:48 a night with only fourteen penalty minutes.

A hundred and sixty points in 374 career games.

The Finesse Game

Seventy-seven unblocked attempts produced thirteen goals — a seventeen per cent conversion, the highest of any forward on the club — from a median of 21 feet with 48 per cent from inside twenty and only six per cent from beyond forty.

That is a remarkable rate off very low volume, and it is not a rate anybody sustains.

Ten assists in 59 games is thin. Seventy-three goals in 374 career games is the real level.

The Physical Game

Five foot nine and 178 pounds, and light. Fourteen penalty minutes.

He works hard on the forecheck for his size and cannot win the exchanges he starts. He gets to the interior by being quick and by being ignored.

The Intangibles

Fifty-four point five per cent of the expected goals, 85th percentile, and 52.6 per cent of the shot attempts, 79th, across 666 minutes, with the goals 37-30 in his favour.

Six points in his last ten, four of them goals. He is 27, a twenty-second overall pick who Edmonton gave up on at 25, and on a fourth line with Carcone this club has two undersized wingers posting some of the best possession numbers on the roster and playing twelve minutes.