Pius Suter

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

67 games, 14 goals and 15 assists for 29 points, 2 on the power play, 16 penalty minutes, 15:30 a night and plus-17, with 3 game-winners. He took 55.6 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 838 minutes, the 90th percentile, and his ice went 39-20 against an expectation of 33.76-26.94.

Five goals of finishing above what the chances were worth and seven goals of goaltending above them. Thirty-nine goals for and 20 against in 838 minutes is nineteen goals to the good in sixty-seven games.

The Finesse Game

141 attempts at a median of 17 feet with 57 per cent of them from inside twenty and 12 per cent from beyond forty, 101 of those on goal, converted at 13.3 per cent against a career 11.66 across 489 shots.

Fifty-seven career goals and 59 assists in 283 games. A seventeen-foot median attempt from a third-line centre is a man who does his work in the slot; he arrives late, finds the puck on the second chance and puts it in from six feet.

The Physical Game

He is 5-11 and 172 and took 16 penalty minutes.

Fifty-eight career penalty minutes in 283 games. He is one of the lightest forwards on the roster and plays the middle of the ice anyway; the survival is positional rather than physical and the penalty totals show a man who is never late enough to have to foul.

The Intangibles

Undrafted, four seasons, and Vancouver is his third organisation.

A career minus-2 and 3 shorthanded goals in 283 games from a man nobody drafted. He came out of Switzerland at 24, has scored between 24 and 36 points in each of his four seasons, and Vancouver is his third club in those four.