Cale Fleury

Last Season

One goal and two assists in 23 games — three points, plus-one, at 16:18 a night with seven penalty minutes.

The Finesse Game

None. Thirty-six unblocked attempts from a median of 58 feet, 81 per cent of them from beyond forty, three per cent from inside twenty.

Two goals in 100 career games. Two assists in 23 games. There is no offensive component and none is expected.

The Physical Game

Six foot one, 204, and a positional, physical defender who defends his crease and blocks shots. Seven penalty minutes in 23 games is disciplined.

The skating is heavy and it is why he has been a seventh defenceman for six seasons across three organisations.

The Intangibles

Forty-seven point six per cent of the expected goals, 33rd percentile, against 40.5 per cent of the shot attempts, first percentile, across 350 minutes.

That is a seven-point gap between chance share and attempt share, and it is the widest on the club — the puck lived in his end and the shots that came were from the outside.

Two points in his last ten, one a goal. He is 27, a third-round pick, younger brother of the defenceman Haydn Fleury, and a depth defenceman on a roster that needed six of them last season. This is a small sample and there is not much in it.