Alexander Alexeyev
Washington Capitals Defense
Not one attempt from inside twenty feet, in 39 games.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | WSH | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 10:35 |
| 2022-23 | WSH | 32 | 0 | 5 | 5 | -2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 0.0 | 16:27 |
| 2023-24 | WSH | 39 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -8 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 5.0 | 13:42 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 72 | 1 | 7 | 8 | -10 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 48 | 2.1 | 14:53 |
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
39 games, 1 goal and 2 assists, 6 penalty minutes, 13:42 a night and minus-8. He took 49.3 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 511 minutes, the 47th percentile, and his ice went 15-22 against an expectation of 17.12-17.62.
Two goals of finishing below what the chances were worth and four more conceded than they called for. Fifteen goals for and 22 against on an even chance share is a third-pairing defenceman having a bad year at both ends of a bad club.
The Finesse Game
30 attempts at a median of 53 feet with 83 per cent of them from beyond forty and not one from inside twenty, 20 of those on goal, converted at 5.0 per cent against a career 2.08 across 48 shots.
One career goal and 7 assists in 72 games. Not one of his 30 attempts came from inside twenty feet, which is the most perimeter-bound chart on this club; there is no offensive part of this game and none is asked for.
The Physical Game
He is 6-4 and 230 and took 6 penalty minutes in 39 games.
Twelve career penalty minutes in 72 games. At 6-4 and 230 he clears the front of his own net without needing to be aggressive about it, and six penalty minutes in 39 games is a very large defenceman playing an extremely clean game.
The Intangibles
Thirty-first overall in 2018 by Washington, three seasons, one organisation, and 8 points in 72 games.
A career minus-10 in 72 games. He is 24, he was a first-round pick by this club, and 39 games is the most anybody has given him in a season.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 511 minutes
- Expected goals
- 49.3%
- 47th pct
- Shot attempts
- 47%
- 28th pct
share of the chances while he was out there
share of the attempts while he was out there
Goals while he was on the ice: 15 for, 22 against. Expected: 17.1 and 17.6.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 10 points of one another. 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.
Both bars are percentiles among the 652 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 71 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 · 511 minutes at five-on-five
- John Carlson11%
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
- WSH took 47.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 49.3% — 2.1 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third pair, 511 minutes at five-on-five — 18th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trevor van Riemsdyk | 52.9% | 46.6% | 48.6% |
| Dylan Strome | 56.8% | 45.1% | 53.9% |
| Nick Jensen | 47.6% | 49.9% | 44.8% |
52.9% together, 46.6% for him apart and 48.6% for van Riemsdyk apart. Both were worse apart, so whatever the two of them had together was doing real work.
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
30 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 1 of them goals. His median goal came from 62 feet. 0% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 83% from beyond forty.