Ethen Frank

Last Season

Twelve goals and 12 assists in 62 games — 24 points, plus-eight, at 12:14 a night with two power-play goals.

Thirty-one points in 86 career games.

The Finesse Game

The shot chart is one of the best on the club. A hundred and twenty-seven unblocked attempts with 58 per cent from inside twenty feet and a median of eighteen, and only nine per cent from beyond forty.

Twelve goals in twelve minutes a night is a strong rate and the location is why.

Twelve assists in 62 games is the flat part.

The Physical Game

Five foot eleven, 188, and light. Eighteen penalty minutes.

The speed is the tool — he is among the fastest skaters in the league by raw straight-line pace — and it is how a small, undrafted winger gets to the interior at all.

The Intangibles

Forty-eight point nine per cent of the expected goals, 44th percentile, against 46.6 per cent of the shot attempts, 23rd, across 673 minutes.

Below average in attempts and near even in chances — fewer shots, better ones — which for a fourth-line winger is the right shape.

One point in his last ten. He is 28, undrafted out of Western Michigan, and did not play an NHL game until 26. Twelve goals in twelve minutes a night is a genuinely useful thing to have found for nothing.