Yanni Gourde

Last Season

Nine goals and 19 assists in all 82 games — 28 points, minus-six, at 16:22 a night with 66 penalty minutes. His 684th career game.

He turns 35 in December.

The Finesse Game

A hundred and sixty-six unblocked attempts, nine goals, median 28 feet with 37 per cent from inside twenty. Three hundred and seventy-five points in 684 career games.

Nineteen assists in a full season is thin and the scoring has been declining for three years. He is no longer a scoring forward and the club is not using him as one.

The Physical Game

Five foot nine and 173 pounds, and he plays one of the most physically committed games in the league at that size — sixty-six penalty minutes, a full season of forechecking, and a body that has taken twelve years of it.

That is the entire career: undrafted, six hundred and eighty games, two Stanley Cups.

The Intangibles

Fifty-three point four per cent of the expected goals, 79th percentile, and 53.1 per cent of the shot attempts, 82nd, across 1,149 minutes, with the chances 45.4 to 39.6 in his favour and the goals 51-36.

The minus-six sits on top of that, which is a special-teams artefact rather than a description of anything.

Two points in his last ten, neither a goal. He is 34, and the honest summary is that the underlying work is still excellent and the production has left. On this club that combination gets you a checking line and nobody complains.