Mikhail Sergachev

Last Season

Ten goals and 49 assists in 78 games — 59 points, plus-two, at 24:18 a night — the heaviest workload on the club — with five power-play goals and 44 penalty minutes.

His 630th career game and his 369th point.

The Finesse Game

Two hundred and fourteen unblocked attempts from a median of 49 feet, 70 per cent from beyond forty, ten goals. That is an excellent conversion for a point shot and the shot is genuinely heavy.

Forty-nine assists is a top-ten figure among defencemen and the best of his career. Two hundred and ninety-six career assists.

The Physical Game

Six foot three, 212, and he defends with reach and skating rather than by punishing people. Forty-four penalty minutes.

He has come back from a broken leg that cost him most of a season and the mobility appears intact, which was the open question when Utah traded for him.

The Intangibles

Fifty-two point two per cent of the expected goals, 72nd percentile, and 52.9 per cent of the shot attempts, 81st, across 1,364 minutes, with the goals 75 for and 55 against — the best margin on the club.

Thirteen points in his last ten, none of them goals.

He is 28, two Stanley Cups in Tampa, and the number-one defenceman on a club that finished level in possession and has never been to a playoff round in this city or the last one.