Linus Karlsson

Last Season

Fifteen goals and 20 assists in 79 games — 35 points, minus-28, at 12:31 a night with 42 penalty minutes.

Forty-one points in 106 career games.

The Finesse Game

The shot chart is the best on the club after DeBrusk’s. A hundred and eighty unblocked attempts with 56 per cent from inside twenty feet and a median of seventeen, and only ten per cent from beyond forty.

Sixteen goals from that ice in twelve and a half minutes a night is a strong rate, and it is a career high by some distance.

Twenty assists is a fair return for the role.

The Physical Game

Six foot one and 178 pounds, and light for a player who does his shooting in the crease. Forty-two penalty minutes in twelve minutes a night is a high rate.

He goes to the interior and takes what comes for it. The skating is ordinary.

The Intangibles

Fifty point four per cent of the expected goals, 57th percentile, and 50.9 per cent of the shot attempts, 65th — the best figures of any Vancouver regular — across 869 minutes.

On a club that finished 43.5 per cent in expected goals as a team, one forward being above water is worth noticing.

Six points in his last ten, three of them goals. He is 26, an eighty-seventh overall pick, and the minus-28 on this page describes his club rather than him.