Tyler Toffoli

Last Season

Nineteen goals and 30 assists in 79 games — 49 points, minus-12, at 14:58 a night with six power-play goals and only ten penalty minutes. His 969th career game.

The Finesse Game

One of the more reliable finishers of his generation and still shooting from the right places. Two hundred and forty-three unblocked attempts, nineteen goals, median 24 feet with 42 per cent from inside twenty.

Three hundred and nine goals and 315 assists in 969 games. Forty-nine points in fifteen minutes a night is a strong rate for a 34-year-old on a bad team.

The Physical Game

Six foot even, 205, and he has never been physical. Ten penalty minutes in 79 games.

He finds his ice by reading the play a half-second early, which is a skill that ages better than legs do.

The Intangibles

Forty-eight point three per cent of the expected goals, 38th percentile, against 46.3 per cent of the shot attempts, 20th, across 944 minutes — with the goals 50-48 in his favour, the only positive margin among San Jose’s regular forwards.

Five points in his last ten. He is 34, a Stanley Cup winner in Los Angeles, and the most obvious deadline asset on this roster: a proven finisher on an expiring rebuild, shooting from good ice, on a club that will not be playing in April.