Ville Koivunen

Last Season

Two goals and five assists in 39 games — seven points, minus-10, at 12:44 a night. His first real NHL season, at 22.

The Finesse Game

A passer. Fifty-seven unblocked attempts, two goals, median 24 feet with 46 per cent from inside twenty — good ice and almost no volume.

Fourteen points in 47 career games. He was a prolific junior and American League playmaker and none of it has arrived yet.

The Physical Game

Six foot even and 184 pounds, and light. Ten penalty minutes in 39 games. He does not go near the interior and cannot hold a puck under pressure.

The Intangibles

Sixty point one per cent of the expected goals — 99th percentile — and 57.9 per cent of the shot attempts, 96th, across 460 minutes, with the chances 23.6 to 15.7 in his favour.

Those are among the best figures in this book and they belong to a player with seven points, in 460 sheltered minutes, on a club that finished fourth at generating offence.

Both halves of that need holding at once. The ice tilted hard whenever he was on it; nothing came of it.

He is 23, a fifty-first overall pick acquired from Carolina, and the most interesting small-sample page on this roster. Ask again after a hundred games.