Zemgus Girgensons

Last Season

Nine goals and 11 assists in 74 games — 20 points, plus-one, at 14:46 a night with 31 penalty minutes. His 844th career game.

The Finesse Game

Modest volume from excellent ice. A hundred and thirty-three unblocked attempts with 57 per cent from inside twenty feet and a median of seventeen, and nine goals.

Two hundred and fourteen points in 844 career games. Eleven assists in 74 games is the honest rate of a fourth-line centre.

The Physical Game

Six foot three, 197, and he forechecks with genuine weight — he is one of the more physically committed checking forwards in the league and has been for twelve seasons.

Thirty-one penalty minutes is moderate for the way he plays.

The Intangibles

Fifty point nine per cent of the expected goals, 61st percentile, and 50.7 per cent of the shot attempts, 64th, across 950 minutes, with the goals 51 for and 33 against.

Those are the weakest chance-share figures among Tampa’s regular forwards and they are still above water, which is the club in one line.

Five points in his last ten. He is 32, the fourteenth pick in 2012, and spent eleven seasons in Buffalo on teams that never made the playoffs. He has now played eight hundred and forty-four games and is exactly what he was at twenty-five.