Sean Couturier

Last Season

Twelve goals and 24 assists in 78 games — 36 points, minus-five, at 16:39 a night with 30 penalty minutes.

The Finesse Game

The reads are still the best on the club. He is where the play is going, which at 33 and after two back surgeries is the only way he still takes hard minutes.

A hundred and seventy-seven unblocked attempts, ten goals, median 25 feet with 41 per cent inside twenty. The shot has faded; 218 goals in 952 games says what it was.

Twenty-four assists is honest second-line work.

The Physical Game

Six foot four, 210, and he protects pucks below the goal line as well as anyone here. Thirty penalty minutes.

The skating is gone. Two back surgeries cost him the better part of two seasons and there is no version of him that gets that back.

The Intangibles

Fifty-two point three per cent of the expected goals, 73rd percentile, with the chances 39.6 to 36.1 in his favour across 1,024 minutes.

That is a genuinely good number in the hardest available minutes on a club that finished third in expected goals against.

Five points in his last ten. He is 33, a Selke winner, the captain, and 579 points into a career that would look very different without the injuries. He is still doing the difficult half properly.