Luke Schenn

Last Season

One goal and six assists in 50 games — seven points, minus-12, at 13:39 a night with 43 penalty minutes. His five-on-five work was done in Winnipeg.

His 1,122nd career game.

He turns 37 in November.

The Finesse Game

Fifty-six unblocked attempts from a median of 57 feet, 89 per cent of them from beyond forty and two per cent from inside twenty — the most extreme perimeter chart of any defenceman on this roster.

Forty-five goals in 1,122 career games. Six assists in 50 games is close to the bottom of this book.

The Physical Game

Six foot two, 225, and he has built an eighteen-season career entirely on hitting — he is among the league’s leaders in hits most years and has been since he was nineteen.

Forty-three penalty minutes in fourteen minutes a night is a high rate.

The skating was never good and is now poor.

The Intangibles

Forty-one point seven per cent of the expected goals, fourth percentile, and 44.3 per cent of the shot attempts, eighth, across 605 minutes in Winnipeg, with the goals 30-18 in his favour on the strength of that club’s goaltending.

He is 36, the fifth pick in 2008, two Stanley Cup rings from Tampa, and on his ninth organisation. A thousand and a hundred games is a career; the numbers say the last of them should be short shifts.