Travis Konecny

This Season So Far

The 2023-24 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

31 goals and 30 assists in 60 games — 61 points — at 20:07 a night. Minus-12, 191 shots at 16.2 per cent, five on the power play, three shorthanded, five game-winners, 77 penalty minutes.

Thirty-one goals in sixty games is a forty-two-goal pace and the best rate of a seven-season career.

46.9 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 33rd percentile, with his ice at 37-43 against an expectation of 36.46-41.3 across 869 minutes — which is a modest share on a club that finished twenty-third in chances, and roughly what the chances said.

He started 51.3 per cent of his shifts in the attacking zone, the 53rd percentile.

Seven seasons, 488 games, 332 points, all of them here.

The Finesse Game

191 shots at a median of 27 feet, and the distance chart is the best on the club by a distance.

Inside twenty feet: 66 shots on goal and 17 goals — 25.76 per cent, against a league forward rate of 17.71. From twenty to forty: 72 shots and 12 goals — 16.67 per cent, against a league rate of 11.05. Beyond forty: 51 shots and 2 goals.

Half again the league’s rate from close and half again from the mid-slot, on real volume from both. He is one of forty-four forwards in the league who beat the positional rate from both of those bands on fifty or more shots on goal in each, and on a team that scored 222 goals — twenty-ninth in the league — he is most of what worked.

166 wrist shots out of 272 tracked attempts and only 14 slap. 90.5 mph at the 47th percentile, on fourteen slap shots, so the number is about selection.

The release is the asset. He shoots off the wrong foot and out of the turn, which is why a 5-10 winger gets a hundred and thirty-eight shots away from inside forty feet.

The Physical Game

5-10 and 192 pounds, with 77 penalty minutes in sixty games.

2.3 bursts above twenty miles an hour a game, the 90th percentile; 3.19 miles a game, the 90th. Top speed 22.5 mph, the 60th.

High in sprints and in ground covered from ordinary top-end speed, which describes a player who is always moving and rarely in a straight line.

He forechecks into contact, agitates, and takes and gives more punishment than a man his size should. 343 career penalty minutes from a scoring winger is the record of somebody who has never once got out of the way.

He kills penalties, and the three shorthanded goals are the tell: he is on the first unit and he is the one who leaves it with the puck.

Sixty games is the fewest he has played in a full season, and at 192 pounds the availability is the standing risk in this file.

The Intangibles

Twenty-fourth overall in 2015, and 488 games in one uniform.

141 goals and 191 assists, with the 61 points in sixty games the best rate of the seven seasons and the 24 goals in each of 2017-18, 2018-19 and 2019-20 the consistent floor underneath it.

He is twenty-six on the worst offensive club in the conference. The measurements say he is a genuinely good top-line winger and the surrounding roster says nobody will find that out for a while.