Armchair Hockey Scout Beta

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Alex Killorn

Anaheim Ducks Left Wing

Two Stanley Cups, five hundred and two points, and thirty-five years old on a club that will not win fifty games.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2012-13TBL3871219-614102828.516:49
2013-14TBL82172441+8633021739.816:47
2014-15TBL71152338+83611513011.516:56
2015-16TBL81142640+14443031549.116:48
2016-17TBL81191736-96641417610.818:00
2017-18TBL82153247+22452011569.616:30
2018-19TBL82182240+224521215311.814:52
2019-20TBL68262349+192080713020.017:56
2020-21TBL56151833-13750112112.417:54
2021-22TBL82253459+16660216415.218:42
2022-23TBL82273764+184531514318.917:13
2023-24ANA63181836-155450514512.418:44
2024-25 so far
Career868216286502+8153543439172712.517:14

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

18 goals and 18 assists in 63 games — 36 points at 18:44 a night, minus-15, with 5 power-play goals and 5 game-winners on 145 shots, converting at 12.41 per cent, and 54 penalty minutes. His first season here after eleven in Tampa.

47.5 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 937 minutes, the 33rd percentile — the best of any forward on the roster who played a full year. His ice went 22-41 against an expectation of 35.43-39.18 — thirteen goals of scoring missing, the worst finishing luck on the club.

The Finesse Game

145 attempts at a median of 25 feet, with 42 per cent from inside 20 and 20 per cent from beyond 40, converting at 12.41 per cent.

He plays inside. The shot is taken from the paint and the front of the crease rather than from range, which is the same thing he did for eleven years in Tampa and is why the conversion has never fallen away.

18 assists. He is a complementary scorer rather than a distributor, and 216 goals against 286 assists in 868 games is a career of being the right winger on somebody else’s line.

The Physical Game

6-1 and 205. He goes to the front of the net and he stays there, and the willingness to take a cross-check in the back and not move is the reason the conversion rate exists.

54 penalty minutes in 63 games and 535 in 868. He is an agitator — he talks, he finishes late, and he has been drawing retaliation for a decade.

The Intangibles

Seventy-seventh overall in 2007, eleven seasons in Tampa, two Stanley Cups, and 868 games and 502 points.

He is 35 and he signed a four-year contract with a club that finished thirtieth. What he is here for is not the eighteen goals — it is that a room of twenty-year-olds now contains a man who has won two Cups and knows what a good team looks like from the inside.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 937 minutes

Expected goals
47.5%
34th pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
51%
64th pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 22 for, 41 against. Expected: 35.4 and 39.2.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight
Report
72nd
Numbers
34th

The report ranks him 38 points above where the numbers do. It was written for a back edition, with the seasons that followed already known. Neither the agreement nor the gap says anything about the eye, and this report is excluded from the club-level comparison for the same reason. Why the numbers land there sets out the club he did it on, the minutes he played and the men he played them with.

Both bars are percentiles among the 41 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 69 on their own scale — against every other report's mean. The numbers bar ranks his share of expected goals. A gap is a disagreement about where he belongs, not two scales talking past each other.

Usual linemates

2023-24 · 937 minutes at five-on-five

Share of his five-on-five ice time spent alongside each player, measured from shift charts. Special teams are excluded: a power-play unit is not a line.

Why the numbers land there

Five-on-five, 2023-24

The club
ANA took 45.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 47.5% — 1.6 above the club he did it on.
The role
Second line, 937 minutes at five-on-five — 51st percentile in ice time.

With and without

TeammateTogetherHim apartMate apart
Troy Terry48.1%46.8%44.6%
Leo Carlsson50.1%44.4%49.8%
Cam Fowler46.9%47.9%45.8%

48.1% together, 46.8% for him apart and 44.6% for Terry apart. Terry was worse away from him while his own share held — the pairing was doing more for Terry than for him.

Expected-goal share while both were on the ice, and for each man in the minutes he played without the other. Apart is the pair subtracted from his own totals. It does not settle who was carrying whom — apart from each other, both were still playing with somebody — but it does say whether the share travelled when the pairing broke up.

Where he shoots from

goal on goal missed

202 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 18 of them goals. His median goal came from 23 feet. 42% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 20% from beyond forty.