Armchair Scout
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Kyle MacLean

New York Islanders Center

Undrafted, a hundred and seventy-two games, and forty penalty minutes from the fourth line.

SeasonGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2025-2659257-640000434.710:31
Career172101727-16650001307.710:11

Last Season

Two goals and five assists in 59 games — seven points, minus-six, at 10:31 a night with 40 penalty minutes.

The Finesse Game

Thin. Seventy-seven unblocked attempts, two goals, median 23 feet with 47 per cent from inside twenty — good ice and no finish.

Twenty-seven points in 172 career games. There is no offensive case and the club is not making one.

The Physical Game

Six foot one, 190, and he plays a hard checking game. Forty penalty minutes in ten and a half minutes a night is a high rate and the clearest thing on the page.

He forechecks, he blocks shots, and he kills penalties on a unit that finished last in the league.

The Intangibles

Forty-nine point two per cent of the expected goals, 46th percentile, against 47.2 per cent of the shot attempts, 27th, across 610 minutes.

That is a fourth line holding its own on a club that could not, and it is better than several forwards ahead of him on this depth chart managed.

He is 27, undrafted, and the son of a former NHL player. Two points in his last ten. This is a thirteenth-forward job held by being useful, which is the only way anybody holds one.