Owen Tippett

Last Season

Twenty-eight goals and 23 assists in 81 games — 51 points, minus-six, at 16:51 a night. Two hundred and twenty shots on goal, the most on the club.

The Finesse Game

A volume shooter with genuine speed. Three hundred and twenty-five unblocked attempts, 26 goals, median 29 feet with only 31 per cent from inside twenty.

That is a lot of shooting from the middle distance, and it works because he arrives at pace with a defenceman turning. A hundred and twenty-one goals in 428 career games.

Twenty-three assists is the honest ceiling on the playmaking.

The Physical Game

Six foot one, 210, and he plays fast rather than heavy. Thirty-two penalty minutes.

The skating is the asset — he is among the quicker wingers in the league in a straight line — and it is what makes a middling shot chart produce twenty-eight goals.

The Intangibles

Fifty-three point two per cent of the expected goals, 78th percentile, with the chances 45.6 to 40.0 in his favour across 1,083 minutes.

The minus-six beside that is the club’s goaltending, which cost twelve.

Nine points in his last ten, four of them goals. He is 27, a tenth overall pick, and on a roster that finished 26th at generating even-strength offence he is one of only two forwards whose chance share was genuinely good.