Yegor Sharangovich

Last Season

Fifteen goals and 14 assists in 78 games — 29 points, minus-20, at 16:03 a night. A hundred and forty-two shots on goal.

The Finesse Game

The shot is real and he keeps taking it from the wrong places. Two hundred and fourteen unblocked attempts, only 32 per cent from inside twenty feet and 29 per cent from beyond forty, median 30.

He has scored 116 goals in 438 games, including a thirty-goal season, so the finishing is genuine when the chances are. Fifteen goals from that volume is a player being asked to create for himself and not being able to.

Fourteen assists in 78 games is the flat truth about the playmaking.

The Physical Game

Six foot two, 196, and unengaged. Twelve penalty minutes in 78 games. He is not winning pucks, not going to the net front, and not making life difficult for anybody.

The Intangibles

The numbers are among the worst on a bad team: 44.6 per cent of the expected goals, 13th percentile, with the expected goals 37.4 to 46.4 against across a thousand minutes.

He is 28 and this is now two seasons of decline from the thirty-goal year. The shot has not gone. The willingness to get to where it works never arrived, and at this age it is not going to.