Alex Tuch

Last Season

Thirty-three goals and 33 assists in 79 games — 66 points, plus-24, at 19:00 a night with seven power-play goals and 57 penalty minutes. His five-on-five work was done in Buffalo.

His 615th career game and his 448th point. Two hundred career goals.

The Finesse Game

Three hundred and twenty-three unblocked attempts, 34 goals, median 28 feet with 39 per cent from inside twenty.

That is high volume, fair ice, and a good conversion — and thirty-three goals is a career high for a player who has now scored twenty-five or more four times.

Thirty-three assists is a genuine second-line playmaking rate.

The Physical Game

Six foot four and 219 pounds, and quick for the size — he is among the faster big forwards in the league and it is the whole reason the shot chart looks like it does. Fifty-seven penalty minutes.

He forechecks with weight, wins the wall, and goes to the net.

The Intangibles

Fifty point five per cent of the expected goals, 58th percentile, and 50.4 per cent of the shot attempts, 62nd, across 1,153 minutes in Buffalo, with the chances essentially level at 49.1 and 48.1.

He is 30, an eighteenth overall pick, and joins a Washington top six that already has Tuch’s exact profile in Tom Wilson and Aliaksei Protas. Three forwards of six foot four or better who can all score twenty-five is an unusual thing to own, and in a seven-game series it is the right unusual thing.