Evan Rodrigues

Last Season

Eleven goals and 20 assists in 69 games — 31 points, minus-16, at 17:00 a night. His five-on-five work was done in Florida.

The Finesse Game

A useful, versatile forward who has made a long career out of being the fourth man on a good line. Two hundred and forty unblocked attempts, twelve goals, median 34 feet with only 30 per cent from inside twenty.

That is a lot of shooting from the outside for eleven goals, and 107 goals in 616 career games is the honest rate.

Twenty assists is where the value is.

The Physical Game

Five foot eleven, 182, and light. Thirty-eight penalty minutes. He does not go to the net front and does not win pucks by force; the game is speed and support.

The Intangibles

Fifty-five point three per cent of the expected goals, 89th percentile, with the chances 41.4 to 33.5 in his favour — and the goals 37-40 against, on a club whose goaltending was forty goals worse than the chances faced.

The minus-16 belongs to Markstrom.

He is 32, undrafted out of Boston University, with a Stanley Cup. He returns to a New Jersey club that needs finishing more than it needs another perimeter shooter, which is the one awkward note on an otherwise useful page.