Mitchell Stephens

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

23 games with Montreal, 2 goals and 1 assist, 4 penalty minutes, 9:03 a night and plus-2.

Nine minutes a night in 23 games, after a season in which he played none at all. Two goals on 16 shots is a 12.5 per cent rate against a career 6.33, on a sample too small to mean anything.

The Finesse Game

19 attempts at a median of 32 feet with 37 per cent of them from inside twenty, 14 of those on goal, converted at 12.5 per cent against a career 6.33 across 79 shots.

Five career goals and 11 assists in 95 games. There is no scoring here and the second-round pick has produced nothing that a club would pay for; what he offers is a fourth-line shift that does not cost anything.

The Physical Game

He is 6-0 and 203 and took 4 penalty minutes.

Twenty-two career penalty minutes in 95 games. He is compact and solid and finishes checks on the forecheck, which is the reason four different clubs have given him a look.

The Intangibles

Thirty-third overall in 2015 by Tampa Bay, four seasons, four organisations, and 16 points in 95 games.

A career minus-20 and no NHL games at all in 2022-23. He is 27, he was a second-round pick, and 95 games in nine years since the draft is the whole record.