Scott Morrow

This Season So Far

The 2026-27 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

6 assists and no goals in 29 games at 15:40 a night, minus-5, with 4 penalty minutes. A second-round pick of Carolina’s in 2021 who has played for New York since.

45 NHL games across 3 seasons, and 1 goal in all of them.

The Finesse Game

38 unblocked attempts from a median of 56 feet, 87 per cent from beyond 40 and 5 per cent from inside 20. 24 of them reached the goaltender and none went in.

That is a shot chart with no second half to it. He is a right-shot defenceman who takes the shot the point gives him and does not go looking for another one, and on 24 attempts nothing can be said about the finish except that it has not happened yet — his career is 1 goal on 53 shots.

6 assists in 29 games is a fair rate for a third pair, and it is the half of his game the record likes.

The Physical Game

6-2 and 210, which is a man’s frame already, and 4 penalty minutes in 29 games. Almost nobody at the position is that quiet, and the reading cuts both ways: a defenceman takes few penalties either because he is never beaten or because he does not contest what he cannot win.

The league’s tracking chips have no record of him last season. He is one of 17 skaters in this edition with none, so everything in this section about how he moves is an eye read with nothing under it, and it is written here rather than left for the reader to assume otherwise.

The Intangibles

48.5 per cent of the expected goals and 50.4 per cent of the shot attempts, across 410 minutes, with the chances 16.88 for and 17.93 against and the goals 12-16.

The Rangers were outchanced as a club, 151.2 expected goals against 163.5, and took 48.9 per cent of the attempts, so he came out ahead of the club he was on. Only Adam Fox did better among their defencemen, and only Vladislav Gavrikov was close.

And zone starts came out exactly even at 50 per cent — 106 attacking draws against 106 — so it was not a sheltered 29 games. Half his even-strength time came beside Matthew Robertson, who finished at 48.7 on easier starts than that.

410 minutes is a third of a season and the interval around every number above is wide enough to drive through. What can be said is that a 23-year-old played a third pair on even terms, was not hidden, and did not sink. That is the whole of the case, and it is a real one.