Boone Jenner

Last Season

Thirteen goals and 25 assists in 67 games — 38 points, plus-three, at 16:05 a night with 44 penalty minutes. His five-on-five work was done in Columbus.

His 808th career game and his 421st point.

The Finesse Game

Two hundred and five unblocked attempts, thirteen goals, median 22 feet with 44 per cent from inside twenty — good ice, ordinary conversion.

Twenty-five assists is a career-high sort of rate and the most encouraging thing here. Two hundred and twelve goals in 808 career games.

The Physical Game

Six foot two, 204, and one of the more physically committed forwards of his generation — he forechecks, blocks shots, wins draws, and has an injury record to prove all of it.

Forty-four penalty minutes is moderate for the way he plays.

The Intangibles

Fifty-one point four per cent of the expected goals, 66th percentile, and 51.7 per cent of the shot attempts, 73rd, across 912 minutes in Columbus, with the goals 44-30 in his favour.

Those are good figures for a 33-year-old taking hard minutes on a middling club.

He is 33, a thirty-seventh overall pick, the captain in Columbus for six years, and joins a Washington club that is trying to win now and needed a third-line centre who can take a defensive-zone draw. That is exactly what arrived.