Alexander Kerfoot

Last Season

Seven goals and six assists in 34 games — 13 points, even in plus-minus, at 12:47 a night. His five-on-five work was done in Utah.

The Finesse Game

Modest and well placed. Forty-four unblocked attempts, seven goals, median 23 feet with 43 per cent from inside twenty — a good conversion in a small sample.

Three hundred and five points in 639 career games is a genuine middle-six career, most of it assists. He makes the simple play quickly and does not turn it over.

The Physical Game

Five foot eleven, 185, and light. Twenty-three penalty minutes in 34 games. He does not win battles and does not try; the game is positioning and anticipation.

The Intangibles

Fifty-four and a half per cent of the expected goals, 85th percentile, in 369 minutes — a good number from a small sample in a sheltered role.

The goals went 22-14 in his favour.

He is 32, a hundred and fiftieth overall pick out of Harvard, and has quietly assembled a six-hundred-game career as the forward a coach uses when he needs something done properly. On a Nashville bottom six that was outchanced all season, that is more valuable than it sounds.