Victor Mancini

Last Season

No goals and three assists in 24 games — three points, minus-12, at 13:44 a night with seven penalty minutes.

Eleven points in 55 career games.

The Finesse Game

Sixteen unblocked attempts from a median of 52 feet, none of them from inside twenty feet, and none went in.

Two goals in 55 career games. Three assists in 24 games is close to the bottom of this edition and there is no offensive component to speak of.

The Physical Game

Six foot three and 229 pounds, and heavy. Seven penalty minutes in 24 games is a low rate for a defenceman of this type.

He clears his crease and blocks shots. The skating is the limitation and it is why he has not held a job.

The Intangibles

Thirty-seven per cent of the expected goals and 37.5 per cent of the shot attempts — the nought-th percentile in both — across 319 minutes, with the goals seven for and eighteen against.

Those are among the worst figures in this book. Three hundred and nineteen minutes is a small sample and it is not small enough to explain a seven-to-eighteen goal margin.

Three points in his last ten. He is 24, a hundred and fifty-ninth overall pick, and a depth defenceman on a club that had to dress seven of them.