Tyson Foerster

Last Season

Thirteen goals and four assists in 29 games — 17 points, plus-eight, at 17:18 a night with three power-play goals. Fifty-three games missed.

The Finesse Game

The shot is the case for him and it is a genuinely heavy one. Eighty-two unblocked attempts produced 14 goals — a conversion rate nobody sustains, from a median of 29 feet with only 32 per cent inside twenty.

Sixty-one goals in 195 career games is a real scoring rate. Four assists in 29 games is the flat truth about everything else.

The Physical Game

Six foot two, 215, and he plays a heavy game on the wall and in front of the net. Twenty-two penalty minutes in 29 games.

The skating is the limitation and always has been — he is slow, and it caps how much ice he can be given.

The Intangibles

Fifty-four per cent of the expected goals, 83rd percentile, against only 45.2 per cent of the shot attempts, 13th — the widest split on the club, which is saying something here.

Fifty-three games missed is the story of the season. Six points in his last ten, five of them goals.

He is 24, a twenty-third overall pick, and on a roster that finished 26th at generating offence he may be the best pure finisher. The question is entirely whether he plays.