Gage Goncalves

Last Season

Eleven goals and 22 assists in 74 games — 33 points, plus-26, at 13:05 a night with 41 penalty minutes.

The Finesse Game

The shot chart is very good. A hundred and fifteen unblocked attempts, fourteen goals, median 19 feet with 52 per cent from inside twenty and only thirteen per cent from beyond forty.

Fourteen goals from a hundred and fifteen attempts is an excellent conversion and it came in thirteen minutes a night.

Twenty-two assists is a genuine rate for the ice. Fifty-three points in 136 career games.

The Physical Game

Six foot one, 189, and willing rather than heavy. Forty-one penalty minutes in thirteen minutes a night is a high rate.

He forechecks properly and goes to the interior, which is why the shot chart looks the way it does.

The Intangibles

Fifty-six point seven per cent of the expected goals, 95th percentile, and 52.8 per cent of the shot attempts, 81st, across 871 minutes, with the chances 37.2 to 28.4 in his favour and the goals 52-34.

That is the second-best chance share among Tampa’s forwards, behind only Hagel, from a third-line role.

Six points in his last ten, none of them goals. He is 25, a sixty-second overall pick, and precisely the kind of cheap, effective, entirely unknown middle-six forward that this organisation has produced for a decade and other clubs cannot seem to find.