Bobby McMann

Last Season

Twenty-nine goals and 17 assists in 78 games — 46 points, minus-three, at 15:56 a night with 42 penalty minutes. His five-on-five work was done in Toronto.

The Finesse Game

A straight-line power winger who scores by arriving. Two hundred and fifty-two unblocked attempts produced 29 goals from a median of 28 feet with 35 per cent from inside twenty.

That is a very high conversion from ordinary ice and it is the second season running. Sixty-four goals in 218 career games, and he did not play an NHL game until he was 26.

Seventeen assists in 78 games is the flat truth about the rest of it.

The Physical Game

Six foot two, 217, and genuinely quick for the size — the combination is the whole player. Forty-two penalty minutes.

He forechecks hard, finishes checks, and gets to the net through people rather than around them.

The Intangibles

Forty-five point six per cent of the expected goals, 16th percentile, and 47 per cent of the shot attempts, 26th, across 1,120 minutes on a Toronto club that was better than that.

The chances were 42.9 for and 51.1 against, and he scored twenty-nine goals anyway.

Three points in his last ten, all of them goals. He is 30, undrafted out of Colgate, and arrives on a club that scored 153 goals at five-on-five and badly needs somebody who can put the puck in the net without being set up.