Tyler Myers

Last Season

One goal and 10 assists in 73 games — 11 points, minus-23, at 19:31 a night with 52 penalty minutes. His five-on-five work was done in Vancouver.

The Finesse Game

Almost none left. A hundred and thirty-three unblocked attempts from a median of 46 feet and one goal. A hundred goals in 1,139 career games, and one of them last season.

Ten assists in 73 games from nineteen minutes a night is close to nothing.

The Physical Game

Six foot eight and 229, and the reach still ends plays. Fifty-two penalty minutes. He can break up a rush by simply extending an arm, and in front of his own net he takes up more space than anyone.

The skating is the problem and has been for a decade. When beaten he cannot recover, and forwards know it.

The Intangibles

Forty-five point seven per cent of the expected goals, 16th percentile, with the expected goals 45.3 to 53.7 against across 1,213 minutes. The minus-23 is not an accident of luck; the process agrees with it.

He is 36, a twelfth overall pick, a Calder winner seventeen seasons ago, and 1,139 games into a career that has been about the same argument the whole way through: he looks like a top-pair defenceman and the results have rarely said he is one.

Dallas has added him to a blue line whose method is to defend the middle. He is very large and he does not move. Three points in his last ten.