Marco Rossi

Last Season

Twelve goals and 23 assists in 50 games — 35 points, minus-26, at 17:28 a night with three power-play goals and only ten penalty minutes. Thirty-two games missed.

A hundred and thirty-six points in 235 career games.

The Finesse Game

A hundred and three unblocked attempts produced thirteen goals — a very high conversion — from a median of 24 feet with 40 per cent from inside twenty.

Twenty-three assists in fifty games is a genuine second-line playmaking rate and the best part of the page.

The Physical Game

Five foot nine and 182 pounds, and among the smallest centres in the league. Ten penalty minutes in 50 games.

He wins more pucks than the size suggests — the compete has never been in question — and he cannot hold the interior against men. He wins draws at a fair rate.

The Intangibles

Forty-two point nine per cent of the expected goals, seventh percentile, and 46.1 per cent of the shot attempts, 18th, across 689 minutes, with the goals 23-35 against.

Every Vancouver forward except two finished under the twentieth percentile in chance share. That is the context for a minus-26 in fifty games.

Seven points in his last ten, three of them goals. He is 24, the ninth pick in 2020, and Minnesota traded a point-every-other-game centre at twenty-four. Vancouver’s problem is not the players it has acquired.