Lawson Crouse

Last Season

Twenty-four goals and 20 assists in 81 games — 44 points, plus-20, at 16:36 a night with 46 penalty minutes.

His 666th career game.

The Finesse Game

The shot chart is very good for a power forward. Two hundred and nineteen unblocked attempts with 48 per cent from inside twenty feet and a median of twenty, and 23 goals came out of it.

Twenty-four goals is a career high and it came from getting to the same ice more often, not from shooting more.

Twenty assists in 81 games is the flat truth about the playmaking. Two hundred and fifty-nine points in 666 career games.

The Physical Game

Six foot four and 214 pounds, and he plays to every inch of it — he forechecks with real weight, wins the wall, and is difficult to move from the front of the net. Forty-six penalty minutes.

The skating is adequate for the size and it is what took him from a disappointing eleventh overall pick to a useful top-nine winger.

The Intangibles

Fifty-two per cent of the expected goals, 70th percentile, and 52.7 per cent of the shot attempts, 80th, across 1,042 minutes, with the chances 44.1 to 40.7 in his favour.

The goals came out 39-45 against him, which is the goaltending.

Six points in his last ten, four of them goals. He is 29, and on a club whose skill players are all under 190 pounds he is one of two forwards — with Lee — who can win a physical exchange.