Ondrej Palat

Last Season

Five goals and 10 assists in 80 games — 15 points, minus-11, at 12:49 a night with 14 penalty minutes.

The Finesse Game

Almost gone. A hundred and thirty-three unblocked attempts, five goals, median 24 feet with 43 per cent from inside twenty — the ice is still right and nothing goes in.

A hundred and eighty-two goals and 338 assists in 905 career games is a very good career, most of it on a line with Kucherov and Stamkos in Tampa.

Fifteen points in 80 games is the lowest full-season total of his life.

The Physical Game

Six foot even, 194, and he was never physical; the game was always reading and positioning. Fourteen penalty minutes.

The skating is what has gone, and at 35 it does not come back.

The Intangibles

Forty-eight point one per cent of the expected goals, 36th percentile, with the goals 31 for and 54 against across 951 minutes — the worst margin of any Islander forward.

Some of that is a club that finished 28th in expected goals against and last on the penalty kill. Most of it is a fourth-line winger who cannot help.

One point in his last ten. He is 35, a two hundred and eighth overall pick, two Stanley Cups, and a contract that has outlived the player.