Drew O'Connor

Last Season

Seventeen goals and 12 assists in all 82 games — 29 points, minus-12, at 14:35 a night with 47 penalty minutes.

His 323rd career game.

The Finesse Game

Two hundred and five unblocked attempts, sixteen goals, median 21 feet with 49 per cent from inside twenty — good ice and a fair conversion.

Seventeen goals is a career high. Twelve assists in a full season is the flat truth about everything else, and 104 points in 323 career games is the honest rate.

The Physical Game

Six foot four and 209 pounds, and quick for the size — the combination is why an undrafted forward out of Dartmouth has three hundred NHL games. Forty-seven penalty minutes.

He forechecks hard, goes to the net, and is difficult to defend on a straight line.

The Intangibles

Forty-four point nine per cent of the expected goals, 14th percentile, and 47.7 per cent of the shot attempts, 33rd, across 1,059 minutes, with the goals 37 for and 60 against.

That three-point gap between attempts and chances is the wrong way round and it is the whole club: Vancouver finished 46.5 per cent in attempts and 43.5 per cent in expected goals, second-worst in the league behind Chicago.

Two points in his last ten. He is 28, and on a better team he is a useful third-line winger who scores fifteen.