Armchair Hockey Scout

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2026-27 edition Ask a direct question about this edition of the book — who, how many, how common, which group more — and it is answered with a table computed on this page from the edition’s index: the season line, height and age, the on-ice percentiles, the grades and the traits read out of every report. Ask for a view on named players — what a comparison comes down to, what makes a man — and you get the book’s reading of their own pages, and only those. The model turns your question into a query and phrases the result, or reads the pages it is handed; it never originates a figure, and an answer carrying a figure that is on neither the table nor the pages is withheld. It does not forecast, and it says so when a question is outside what the book holds.

Tables are computed on this page from the 2026-27 edition’s index; readings rest on the players’ own pages; the model never counts. Twenty questions an hour.

Kyle Burroughs

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Kyle Burroughs

Dallas Stars Defense #28

39 penalty minutes in under 8 minutes a night.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2020-21COL5011+1500030.010:05
2021-22VAN42145-339000392.612:56
2022-23VAN48235-462000474.317:22
2023-24SJS73268-4271001792.519:09
2024-25LAK33033+33900060.07:49
2026-27 so far—————————————
Career—20151722-452160011742.915:20

No games in 2025-26. The season above is the last one he played, and everything on this page should be read with that gap in it.

This Season So Far

The 2026-27 season has not started. The empty row above is his, and both it and this paragraph fill in on their own from the morning after he first plays: what he has done, what it is worth against his own last season, and the run he is on when the two disagree.

2024-25

No goals and 3 assists in 33 games, plus-3, at 7:49 a night — the lightest workload of any regular in this edition — with 39 penalty minutes. He did not play enough 5-on-5 to register an on-ice record. He did not appear in the NHL last season.

The Finesse Game

6 shots on goal in 33 games. 22 points in 201 career games.

There is nothing here and nothing claimed. He is a seventh defenceman who is dressed when a club expects a difficult night.

The Physical Game

6 foot even, 193, and the entire proposition. 39 penalty minutes in under 8 minutes a night is one of the highest rates in the league, and he will fight anybody.

He is not big. He is willing, which for this job has always mattered more.

The Intangibles

a 196th overall pick in 2013 who spent 6 years in the minors and has made 201 NHL games out of being the man a coach trusts to answer for something.

There is no meaningful on-ice sample and there will not be one, because the role does not produce minutes.

Dallas is built to defend and expects to be in tight games in the spring. Whether a roster like that still has a place for 8 minutes of this is the same question Deslauriers’s page in Carolina asks, and the answer will be given in April rather than October.