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2026-27 edition Ask a direct question about this edition of the book — who, how many, how common, which group more — and it is answered with a table computed on this page from the edition’s index: the season line, height and age, the on-ice percentiles, the grades and the traits read out of every report. Ask for a view on named players — what a comparison comes down to, what makes a man — and you get the book’s reading of their own pages, and only those. The model turns your question into a query and phrases the result, or reads the pages it is handed; it never originates a figure, and an answer carrying a figure that is on neither the table nor the pages is withheld. It does not forecast, and it says so when a question is outside what the book holds.

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Scott Perunovich

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Scott Perunovich

Los Angeles Kings Defense #48

A gifted small puck-mover who has spent 5 professional seasons unable to stay healthy or hold a spot.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2021-22STL19066+28000140.015:27
2023-24STL5401717+112000360.015:16
2024-25STL/NYI35279-3100001811.116:00
2026-27 so far—————————————
Career—10823032030000682.915:32

No games in 2025-26. The season above is the last one he played, and everything on this page should be read with that gap in it.

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.

2024-25

2 goals and 9 points in 35 games, minus-3, on 16 minutes a night. Across 108 career games he has 32 points, which is a real rate for a defenceman who cannot get into the lineup. He did not appear in the NHL last season.

The Finesse Game

The passing is legitimately good. He was a college star for exactly this reason — he escapes pressure with his feet, makes a clean outlet under a forecheck, and can quarterback a power play at the AHL level and probably at this one. The vision is the best thing about him.

He does not shoot much and the shot is not heavy. The offence comes from moving the puck rather than from finishing.

The Physical Game

5-10 and 175, and this is the whole problem. He cannot defend the front of his own net against NHL forwards, he loses wall battles to wingers, and the injuries that have shadowed his career are at least partly a consequence of playing this position at this size.

The Intangibles

A second-round pick and a Hobey Baker finalist whose professional career has been a series of interrupted starts. He has never played more than 50 games in a season.

He is 28 now, past the point where the injuries can be treated as bad luck rather than a pattern. The skill is real, and it has never been available for long enough to matter.