Kris Letang

Last Season

Three goals and 31 assists in 74 games — 34 points, minus-four, at 21:41 a night with 1,334 five-on-five minutes, the most on the club. His 1,235th career game.

He turns 39 in April.

The Finesse Game

The skating has held up better than anyone had a right to expect. He still leaves the zone with the puck and still joins the rush, and 31 assists in 74 games says the passing is intact.

The shot has gone: 157 unblocked attempts from a median of 46 feet, three goals. A hundred and seventy-eight goals in 1,235 games says what it was.

The Physical Game

Six foot even, 199, and he competes far harder than his size. Thirty-eight penalty minutes.

Two strokes, a heart condition, and the loss of his father inside three years, and he has played through all of it. There is nothing in a scouting report that captures that.

The Intangibles

Fifty-one point four per cent of the expected goals, 66th percentile, with the goals 66 for and 38 against — the best margin on the club — across the most minutes.

Some of that is Pittsburgh finishing thirty-five goals above its chances, second-best in the league.

Seven points in his last ten. Twenty seasons, 806 points, three Stanley Cups, all for one organisation. He is still playing twenty-two minutes a night and the results are still good, which at his age is the whole report.