Max Pacioretty

This Season So Far

The 2024-25 season has not started. The empty row above is his, and both it and this paragraph fill in on their own from the morning after he first plays: what he has done, what it is worth against his own last season, and the run he is on when the two disagree.

Last Season

47 games with Washington, 4 goals and 19 assists for 23 points, 2 on the power play, 25 penalty minutes, 14:26 a night and minus-14. He took 48.7 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 580 minutes, the 43rd percentile, and his ice went 20-30 against an expectation of 22.57-23.75.

Three goals of finishing below what the chances were worth and six more conceded than they called for. He shot 4.2 per cent against a career 11.08, which is barely a third of his own rate.

The Finesse Game

141 attempts at a median of 34 feet with 25 per cent of them from inside twenty and 32 per cent from beyond forty, 94 of those on goal, converted at 4.2 per cent against a career 11.08 across 2,978 shots.

330 career goals and 65 game-winners in 902 games. The shot has always been the asset — a heavy, flat release off the wing that does not need much room — and a thirty-four-foot median attempt says he is still taking it from where he always did.

The Physical Game

He is 6-2 and 217 and took 25 penalty minutes.

493 career penalty minutes in 902 games. He is a large winger who goes to the net through people rather than around them, and sixteen seasons of doing that at that size is why the penalty total is what it is.

The Intangibles

Twenty-second overall in 2007 by Montreal, sixteen seasons, and Toronto will be his fifth organisation.

A career plus-55 and 80 power-play goals in 902 games. He has scored thirty or more in six different seasons and is 35, and 47 games at 4.2 per cent is either the end or a season nobody should read much into.