Bo Horvat

Last Season

Thirty-one goals and 26 assists in 68 games — 57 points, plus-eight, at 20:46 a night with seven power-play goals. Two hundred and twenty-six shots on goal.

The Finesse Game

A finisher who does his work in the middle distance. Three hundred and eighteen unblocked attempts, 33 goals, median 27 feet with 30 per cent from inside twenty.

That is further out than most thirty-goal scorers work from, and it holds because the release is heavy and quick off the wall. Three hundred career goals in 881 games.

Twenty-six assists is what the playmaking gives you and always has been.

The Physical Game

Six foot one, 225, and genuinely heavy. Forty penalty minutes. He wins faceoffs, protects pucks below the goal line, and is difficult to move from in front of the net on the power play.

The Intangibles

Fifty point six per cent of the expected goals, 59th percentile, and 52.4 per cent of the shot attempts, 78th, with the goals 31-32 across 944 minutes.

Plus-eight on a club that finished minus-16 and last in the league on the penalty kill.

Six points in his last ten. He is 31, the captain in all but name, and the second-most reliable thing on this roster after the goaltender.