Teddy Blueger

Last Season

Nine goals and eight assists in 35 games — 17 points, minus-12, at 16:31 a night with 22 penalty minutes. Forty-seven games missed. His five-on-five work was done in Vancouver.

His 453rd career game.

The Finesse Game

Seventy-four unblocked attempts produced nine goals — a twelve per cent conversion from a median of 30 feet with only 28 per cent from inside twenty, which is a rate nobody sustains.

A hundred and sixty-nine points in 453 career games is the real level. Eight assists in 35 games is fair.

The Physical Game

Six foot even, 185, and light. Twenty-two penalty minutes.

He is a penalty-killing centre first — good on draws, good with his stick, reliable in his own end — and the physical game is willing rather than imposing.

The Intangibles

Forty-one point one per cent of the expected goals, third percentile, and 44 per cent of the shot attempts, seventh, across 499 minutes in Vancouver, with the chances 16.3 for and 23.4 against.

Those are poor numbers on a club that conceded 210 goals at five-on-five, the most in the league.

He is 32, a fifty-second overall pick, and joins Toronto to do what he did in Pittsburgh and Vancouver: kill penalties and take the hard draw. Forty-seven games missed is the thing to watch.