Tyler Toffoli

This Season So Far

The 2024-25 season has not started. The empty row above is his, and both it and this paragraph fill in on their own from the morning after he first plays: what he has done, what it is worth against his own last season, and the run he is on when the two disagree.

Last Season

79 games across New Jersey and Winnipeg, 33 goals and 22 assists for 55 points, 11 on the power play, 14 penalty minutes, 16:58 a night and minus-6, with 4 game-winners. He took 52.6 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,040 minutes, the 74th percentile, and his ice went 55-51 against an expectation of 50.81-45.85.

Four goals of finishing above what the chances were worth and five more conceded than they called for. Thirty-three goals is more than anybody who played the season in San Jose managed, by nine.

The Finesse Game

321 attempts at a median of 28 feet with 35 per cent of them from inside twenty, 223 of those on goal, converted at 14.4 per cent against a career 11.55 across 2,252 shots.

260 career goals in 812 games, and 68 of them on the power play. The release is the asset — a quick, heavy shot off the catch from the top of the circle that does not need a set-up — and 41 career game-winners is what a finisher looks like counted up over twelve seasons.

The Physical Game

He is 6-0 and 205 and took 14 penalty minutes in 79 games.

230 career penalty minutes in 812 games. There is very little physical contact in his game; he finds the quiet fifteen feet inside the circle and waits there, and twelve seasons of doing that have cost him almost nothing.

The Intangibles

Forty-seventh overall in 2010 by Los Angeles, twelve seasons, and San Jose will be his seventh organisation.

A career plus-87 — the largest positive figure on this roster — and 10 career shorthanded goals. He has scored twenty or more in eight different seasons, and San Jose is the seventh club to try him.