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Buyer Beware

The biggest knock against Henrique is his footspeed. He isn’t a burner by any means, so if a team is looking for pure speed, he isn’t the guy. According to NHL EDGE, Henrique is well below league average in top speed and number of speed bursts. Again, Henrique is a heady player who plays with poise. He doesn’t rush to spots. And that converse of that is he is rarely in the wrong spot.

Henrique also should not be confused as a defensive forward. He isn’t near the top in any defensive category. His defensive zone touches aren’t high. He is in the middle of the pack among forwards to recover pucks, which sometimes leads longer stretches where his team is pinned in their own end – but it’s always tough to determine how much of that is on Henrique, the four other players he is with, or his team’s planned structure.

Henrique plays a lot on the penalty kill, fifth in the NHL among centers in shorthanded time on ice per game (2:36), but the Ducks struggle on the kill. They rank 25th in the league (77.4 percent) and Henrique has been on the ice for 14 of the 44 goals that unit has given up.