Tom Wilson

Last Season

Thirty goals and 32 assists in 72 games — 62 points, plus-15, at 19:28 a night with seven power-play goals and 117 penalty minutes.

His 907th career game and his 457th point.

The Finesse Game

The shot chart is very good. Two hundred and twenty-nine unblocked attempts with 53 per cent from inside twenty feet and a median of nineteen, and thirty goals came out of it.

Thirty goals is a career high at 32 and it comes from ice that a six-foot-four winger who fights can simply take.

Thirty-two assists is a genuine rate and 457 points in 907 games is a considerably better career than the reputation suggests.

The Physical Game

Six foot four and 225 pounds, and 117 penalty minutes — the third-highest total in the league.

He is the most feared hitter of his generation, has been suspended repeatedly, and has built the second half of his career on being able to score as well as all that.

The Intangibles

Fifty-four point eight per cent of the expected goals, 86th percentile, and 53.3 per cent of the shot attempts, 83rd — the best figures on the club — across 985 minutes, with the chances 45.7 to 37.8 in his favour.

Ten points in his last ten, five of them goals.

He is 32, a Stanley Cup, and the rare heavyweight who is also his club’s best possession forward. That combination is what a checking series is made of.