Rasmus Sandin

Last Season

Five goals and 24 assists in 73 games — 29 points, plus-four, at 19:12 a night with only twelve penalty minutes.

His 382nd career game and his 145th point.

The Finesse Game

A puck-mover by trade. A hundred and thirty-one unblocked attempts from a median of 51 feet, 70 per cent from beyond forty, five goals.

Twenty-four assists is a fair rate and 120 assists against 25 goals in 382 games says exactly what kind of defenceman he is: the outlet and the power-play half-wall, not the shot.

The Physical Game

Five foot eleven and 189 pounds, and light. Twelve penalty minutes across 73 games is one of the lowest rates of any defenceman in this edition.

He cannot clear a crease and is moved off his own net front routinely. The skating covers a great deal of it and not all of it.

The Intangibles

Exactly 50 per cent of the expected goals, 53rd percentile, against 47.6 per cent of the shot attempts, 31st, across 1,215 minutes, with the chances level at 49.4 and 49.5.

Dead level in a top-four role is a fair season, and the plus-four is honest by the standards of this particular club.

Five points in his last ten. He is 26, a twenty-ninth overall pick Toronto gave up on at 23, and a perfectly useful second-pair defenceman ever since.