Jamie Oleksiak

Last Season

Five goals and 10 assists in 78 games — 15 points, plus-nine, at 16:56 a night with 36 penalty minutes. His five-on-five work was done in Seattle.

His 758th career game.

The Finesse Game

A hundred and seventeen unblocked attempts from a median of 54 feet, 73 per cent from beyond forty, five goals. Forty-five goals in 758 career games.

Ten assists in 78 games is near the bottom of this edition and there has never been an offensive component.

The Physical Game

Six foot seven and 252 pounds — only Matt Rempe, Nikita Zadorov and Elmer Soderblom carry more. Thirty-six penalty minutes.

He clears a crease by simply being in it, and forwards do not go around him because there is no route. The skating for a man this size is better than it has any right to be, and it is why he has played seven hundred and fifty games rather than two hundred.

The Intangibles

Forty-seven point one per cent of the expected goals, 27th percentile, and 45.7 per cent of the shot attempts, 16th, across 1,188 minutes in Seattle, with the goals level at 53-52.

That is a middling season on a club where three of the five busiest skaters finished at or below the twelfth percentile.

He is 33, the fourteenth pick in 2011, and joins a blue line whose two best young defencemen weigh 183 and 180 pounds. That is a specific and obvious reason to sign him.