Mackie Samoskevich

Last Season

Twelve goals and 20 assists in 77 games — 32 points, minus-five, at 14:28 a night with four power-play goals. His five-on-five work was done in Florida.

The Finesse Game

Clever and quick, with the puck skills of a first-round pick and a shot that has not yet caught up to them.

Two hundred and fifty-two unblocked attempts produced only twelve goals — from a median of 28 feet with 37 per cent from inside twenty, which is decent ice and a poor return.

Twenty assists in fourteen minutes a night is the more encouraging half. Sixty-three points in 156 career games.

The Physical Game

Five foot eleven, 180, and light. Thirty penalty minutes.

He avoids the interior and works the perimeter and the half-wall, which is where the assists come from and also why the shooting numbers look like this.

The Intangibles

Fifty-six point three per cent of the expected goals, 93rd percentile, and 57 per cent of the shot attempts, 95th, across 941 minutes — with the chances 45.9 to 35.6 in his favour.

Those are outstanding numbers and they were earned inside Florida’s structure, which is the caveat that attaches to every number that leaves that building.

He is 23, the twenty-fourth pick in 2021, and moves from the best-coached club in the league to one that finished in the bottom five in chance share. This is the single most interesting transfer on Seattle’s roster: if the underlying work travels, they have a top-six winger. If it was the system, they have a twelve-goal scorer.