Martin Fehérváry

Last Season

Five goals and 22 assists in 81 games — 27 points, plus-15, at 19:17 a night with 39 penalty minutes.

His 380th career game.

The Finesse Game

Ninety-eight unblocked attempts from a median of 45 feet, 61 per cent from beyond forty, five goals. Twenty-seven goals in 380 career games.

Twenty-two assists is a career high and a fair return for a defenceman whose job is the retrieval and the first pass.

The Physical Game

Six foot two, 215, and genuinely physical — he finishes checks hard, defends his crease, and blocks a great many shots. Thirty-nine penalty minutes.

The skating is good for the size and it is why he can take nineteen minutes against top lines.

The Intangibles

Forty-eight point eight per cent of the expected goals, 43rd percentile, and 47.2 per cent of the shot attempts, 27th, across 1,291 minutes, with the chances 55.3 to 58.1 against.

The goals came out 67 for and 52 against — a fifteen-goal margin on chances that were three the wrong way, which is the largest single gap on the roster and the clearest illustration of what Thompson did for this club.

Six points in his last ten. He is 26, a second-round pick, and a solid, unspectacular second-pair defenceman whose plus-15 is worth about half what it looks like.