Nick Robertson

Last Season

Sixteen goals and 16 assists in 78 games — 32 points, minus-13, at 12:40 a night with ten penalty minutes. His five-on-five work was done in Toronto.

The Finesse Game

A shooter and nothing else. A hundred and seventy-nine unblocked attempts, sixteen goals, median 25 feet with 37 per cent from inside twenty.

Eighty-eight points in 234 career games, of which forty-eight are goals. Sixteen assists in 78 games says the playmaking is not part of it.

The Physical Game

Five foot nine and 180 pounds, and light. Ten penalty minutes in 78 games. He does not go to the net front, does not win pucks, and cannot hold the wall.

He was a prolific junior scorer whose game has never translated cleanly because there is nowhere on an NHL rink he can win a physical exchange.

The Intangibles

Forty-six point seven per cent of the expected goals, 24th percentile, and 44.3 per cent of the shot attempts, eighth percentile, across 897 minutes on a good Toronto club.

That is a bad number in a large sample.

He is 24, a second-round pick, and arrives on a club that finished fourth at generating offence — the best possible circumstances for a shooter who cannot create his own. Sixteen goals in twelve minutes is real. Almost nothing else here is.