Alexey Toropchenko

Last Season

Four goals and seven assists in 65 games — 11 points, minus-11, at 11:59 a night with 28 penalty minutes.

The Finesse Game

Thin. Eighty-six unblocked attempts, four goals, median 26 feet with 43 per cent from inside twenty — reasonable ice, no finish.

Seventy-one points in 324 career games. Seven assists in 65 games is close to the bottom of this edition.

The Physical Game

Six foot six and 225, and it is the entire proposition — he forechecks with real weight, is difficult to move off a wall, and kills penalties.

Twenty-eight penalty minutes in twelve minutes a night is a moderate rate for a man his size, and it points at the criticism: he occupies space rather than imposing on it.

The Intangibles

Forty-three point three per cent of the expected goals, eighth percentile, and 42.1 per cent of the shot attempts, third percentile, across 668 minutes, with the chances 19.6 for and 25.6 against.

Those are the worst figures on the club and the sample is large enough to mean it.

Three points in his last ten. He is 27, a fourth-round pick, and a fourth-line winger whose ice time has been falling for two seasons. On a roster where the young forwards are pushing hard, this is the page most likely to disappear next year.