Urho Vaakanainen

Last Season

No goals and six assists in 34 games, even in plus-minus, at 13:51 a night with 14 penalty minutes.

The Finesse Game

Forty-two unblocked attempts from a median of 55 feet, and not one from inside twenty. No goals. Three goals in 221 career games.

Six assists in 34 games. He makes the safe pass and gets off the ice, and there has never been any evidence of more.

The Physical Game

Six foot two, 202, and he defends positionally. Fourteen penalty minutes in 34 games.

He is not a physical presence and does not clear his net front, which for a defenceman with no offence is the awkward combination.

The Intangibles

Forty-six point six per cent of the expected goals, 22nd percentile, and exactly 50 per cent of the shot attempts, 57th, across 448 minutes.

The split says the puck was in the right end and the chances against were the dangerous kind, which is the third pair being sheltered and still leaking.

He is 27, the eighteenth pick in 2017, on his third organisation, and 221 games in. Three points in his last ten. A first-round defenceman who has produced three goals in seven seasons is what he is now.