Jack Roslovic

Last Season

Twenty-one goals and 15 assists in 69 games — 36 points, minus-nine, at 15:46 a night with four power-play goals and only sixteen penalty minutes. His five-on-five work was done in Edmonton.

His 595th career game.

The Finesse Game

A skilled, quick forward whose production has never quite matched the tools. Two hundred and twenty-one unblocked attempts, 21 goals, median 27 feet with 35 per cent from inside twenty.

Fifteen assists in 69 games is thin for a player with his hands, and 296 points in 595 career games is the rate of a useful third-liner rather than the top-six forward he keeps being signed as.

The Physical Game

Six foot one, 198, and he does not engage. Sixteen penalty minutes in 69 games is very low.

There is no forechecking game and no wall work. The skating is genuinely good and it is used to find space rather than to take it.

The Intangibles

Fifty point two per cent of the expected goals, 55th percentile, and 52.3 per cent of the shot attempts, 77th, across 981 minutes in Edmonton, with the goals 37-53 against.

That goal margin is Edmonton’s goaltending, which finished sixteen goals worse than its chances.

He is 29, a twenty-fifth overall pick, and joins a club where a 55th percentile would have been the best figure in the lineup. Whether that survives the move is the same question this whole section keeps asking.