Zack MacEwen

This Season So Far

The 2024-25 season has not started. The empty row above is his, and both it and this paragraph fill in on their own from the morning after he first plays: what he has done, what it is worth against his own last season, and the run he is on when the two disagree.

Last Season

30 games, 2 goals and 1 assist for 3 points, 57 penalty minutes, 6:24 a night and minus-4, with 1 game-winner.

Fifty-seven penalty minutes in thirty games at six and a half minutes a night. Thirty games at six and a half minutes leaves too little five-on-five ice to read a chance share from, which is itself the description of the role.

The Finesse Game

28 attempts at a median of 38 feet, 17 of those on goal, converted at 11.8 per cent against a career 6.76 across 222 shots.

15 goals and 16 assists in 216 games. There is no offensive game to describe: the hands are heavy, the shot is ordinary and nothing about the six minutes a night is designed to produce points.

The Physical Game

He is 6-4 and 226 and took 57 penalty minutes in 30 games.

302 career penalty minutes in 216 games. He fights, he finishes every check available to him and he answers for teammates; the whole of the employment is being the largest and least pleasant man on the fourth line, and 110 penalty minutes in a season in Philadelphia is what that looks like at full usage.

The Intangibles

Undrafted, out of Charlottetown, six seasons, four organisations and 31 points in 216 games.

An undrafted forward who has made two hundred and sixteen NHL games out of being willing. He is 28 and the role he plays is being asked for by fewer clubs every season.