Trevor Zegras

Last Season

Twenty-six goals and 41 assists in 81 games — 67 points, even in plus-minus, at 18:43 a night with ten power-play goals and 62 penalty minutes.

The Finesse Game

The creativity is the reason he was a top-ten pick and it has finally been attached to a full season. Forty-one assists, and the good ones are the no-look feeds through a seam that most forwards do not see.

The shooting has improved sharply: 269 unblocked attempts, 33 goals across all situations, median 25 feet with 39 per cent from inside twenty.

Two hundred and fifty-three points in 349 career games.

The Physical Game

Six foot even and 185, and light. Sixty-two penalty minutes is more than his game suggests and mostly comes from frustration.

He does not win wall battles and does not go to the net front, which was the entire criticism in Anaheim and has not changed.

The Intangibles

Fifty-two point six per cent of the expected goals, 75th percentile — the best forward mark on the club — with the chances 51.6 to 46.6 in his favour across 1,190 minutes.

The goals went 27-33 against him, which on a club whose goaltending cost twelve is not his doing.

Twelve points in his last ten. He is 25, and after three years of being treated as a highlight reel rather than a hockey player, this was the season the underlying numbers agreed with the talent.