Oskar Sundqvist

Last Season

Five goals and 12 assists in 52 games — 17 points, minus-18, at 12:58 a night with 26 penalty minutes. His 545th career game.

The Finesse Game

Fifty-seven unblocked attempts, five goals, median 29 feet with 39 per cent from inside twenty. A hundred and eighty-one points in 545 career games is a fourth-line rate and that is what he has always been.

Twelve assists in 52 games is a fair return for the role.

The Physical Game

Six foot three, 210, and heavy — he forechecks hard, wins pucks on the wall, and takes defensive-zone draws. Twenty-six penalty minutes.

The skating has slowed noticeably and it is what has taken him from a checking-line regular to a thirteenth forward.

The Intangibles

Forty-three point five per cent of the expected goals, eighth percentile, and 38.9 per cent of the shot attempts — the nought-th percentile, across 544 minutes.

That attempt share is among the three or four worst of any forward in this book, and the minus-18 in fifty-two games follows from it.

Five points in his last ten, three of them goals. He is 32, a third-round pick, and one of four men on this roster with a 2019 ring — Binnington, Parayko and Thomas are the others. That season is now seven years gone and this page is what is left of it.