Kyle Capobianco

Last Season

Two goals and three assists in 33 games — five points, plus-one, at 12:08 a night with eight penalty minutes.

The Finesse Game

Thirty-one unblocked attempts from a median of 57 feet, and none at all from inside twenty. Two goals. Seventeen points in 107 career games.

He is a right-shot defenceman who moves the puck adequately and stands at the blue line. That is the whole description.

The Physical Game

Six foot three, 194, and light for the frame. Eight penalty minutes in 33 games. He defends positionally and avoids contact where he can.

The Intangibles

The numbers are surprisingly good: 53.4 per cent of the expected goals, 79th percentile, and the goals 17-9 in his favour across 388 minutes.

Three hundred and eighty-eight sheltered minutes as a seventh defenceman on the fourth-best defensive team in the league is exactly the context in which a flattering number appears, and this is one.

He is 29, a third-round pick in 2015, and has spent eight seasons as organisational depth. One point in his last ten. There is not enough evidence here for anything stronger than that, and there probably never will be.