Shane Wright

Last Season

Twelve goals and 15 assists in 74 games — 27 points, plus-six, at 13:48 a night with ten penalty minutes.

The Finesse Game

The shot chart is the encouraging part and almost nobody has noticed it. Fifty-one per cent of his unblocked attempts came from inside twenty feet, median 20, with only ten per cent from beyond forty — the best location profile of any forward on the club after Eberle.

Twelve goals from 154 tries is a modest conversion off that ice, which is a finishing problem rather than a positional one, and finishing is the part that usually arrives last.

Seventy-eight points in 169 career games.

The Physical Game

Six foot even, 192, and he plays a heavier game than the draft profile suggested. Ten penalty minutes in 74 games is very disciplined.

He wins his draws, works the wall, and is genuinely reliable without the puck. The skating is ordinary and it is the reason the ceiling talk has quieted.

The Intangibles

Forty-nine point six per cent of the expected goals, 49th percentile, against only 45.9 per cent of the shot attempts, 16th, across 888 minutes.

Dead average in chance share on a club that finished in the bottom five of the league at it is a genuinely good result, and the plus-six is the only positive figure among Seattle’s busier forwards.

Seven points in his last ten, three of them goals. He is 22, was taken fourth overall and spent two years being discussed as a disappointment, and this is the first season where the underlying work says third-line centre now and more later.