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Alexander Wennberg
San Jose Sharks Center
Two hundred and forty-four career assists against 91 goals, and the closest shot chart on the club.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-15 | CBJ | 68 | 4 | 16 | 20 | -19 | 22 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 85 | 4.7 | 15:37 |
| 2015-16 | CBJ | 69 | 8 | 32 | 40 | -1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 97 | 8.3 | 15:52 |
| 2016-17 | CBJ | 80 | 13 | 46 | 59 | +9 | 21 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 109 | 11.9 | 18:23 |
| 2017-18 | CBJ | 66 | 8 | 27 | 35 | +22 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 74 | 10.8 | 18:08 |
| 2018-19 | CBJ | 75 | 2 | 23 | 25 | -1 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 64 | 3.1 | 15:05 |
| 2019-20 | CBJ | 57 | 5 | 17 | 22 | -5 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 72 | 6.9 | 16:41 |
| 2020-21 | FLA | 56 | 17 | 12 | 29 | +6 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 82 | 20.7 | 18:10 |
| 2021-22 | SEA | 80 | 11 | 26 | 37 | -26 | 28 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 95 | 11.6 | 17:51 |
| 2022-23 | SEA | 82 | 13 | 25 | 38 | -7 | 20 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 101 | 12.9 | 18:42 |
| 2023-24 | SEA/NYR | 79 | 10 | 20 | 30 | 0 | 14 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 90 | 11.1 | 17:59 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 712 | 91 | 244 | 335 | -22 | 155 | 21 | 3 | 20 | 869 | 10.5 | 17:17 |
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
79 games across Seattle and New York, 10 goals and 20 assists for 30 points, 3 on the power play, 1 shorthanded, 14 penalty minutes, 17:59 a night and even, with 4 game-winners. He took 48.9 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,075 minutes, the 43rd percentile, and his ice went 45-40 against an expectation of 37.69-39.34.
Seven goals of finishing above what the chances were worth and level at the other end. Finishing even on the season is a figure nobody who played in San Jose came close to.
The Finesse Game
116 attempts at a median of 18 feet with 54 per cent of them from inside twenty, 86 of those on goal, converted at 11.1 per cent against a career 10.47 across 869 shots.
244 career assists against 91 goals in 712 games. An eighteen-foot median attempt is the closest shot chart on this club, which is unexpected from a man who has never scored twenty in a season; he goes to the net to make a play rather than to shoot, and the shots he does take are the ones nobody else wanted.
The Physical Game
He is 6-2 and 190 and took 14 penalty minutes in 79 games.
155 career penalty minutes in 712 games is one of the lowest rates in this edition. He is a large centre who protects the puck with his frame and reach and initiates nothing, and ten seasons of it have cost him barely fifteen penalty minutes a year.
The Intangibles
Fourteenth overall in 2013 by Columbus, ten seasons, and San Jose will be his fifth organisation.
Three career shorthanded goals and a career minus-22. He had 59 points in Columbus at 22 and has not been near that since, but he has played 712 games as a defensively trustworthy second-line centre, which is a career.
What kind of player
The searchable half of the report. The first group is computed from the season's own data; the rest are read out of the prose above, and each one carries the sentence that produced it. A subject the report never raised is simply absent.
- measuredcomputed here from the season's own data
- a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed
- he lacks itraised, and he does not have it
Each computed tag also says how well its measure holds up from one season to the next, because a tag describes a season that has finished and a reader will assume it predicts the one coming. Some do and some do not, and the gap is wide: five-on-five workload repeats well, scoring late does not repeat at all.
- durable· was available
79 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
“An eighteen-foot median attempt is the closest shot chart on this club, which is unexpected from a man who has never scored twenty in a season; he goes to the net to make a play rather than to shoot, and the shots he does take are the ones nobody else wanted.”
“He is a large centre who protects the puck with his frame and reach and initiates nothing, and ten seasons of it have cost him barely fifteen penalty minutes a year.”
“He had 59 points in Columbus at 22 and has not been near that since, but he has played 712 games as a defensively trustworthy second-line centre, which is a career.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 1,075 minutes
- Expected goals
- 48.9%
- 45th pct
- Shot attempts
- 49.1%
- 48th 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: 45 for, 40 against. Expected: 37.7 and 39.3.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 6 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 — 70 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.
Tracked
NHL Edge, 2023-24 · 79 games
- Top speed
- 22.1 mph
- 48th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.87 a game
- Distance
- 2.62 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 90.3 mph
- 72nd pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.1
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 84.5
A top speed is a season's best, and a man who takes more shifts gets more tries at one; the percentile is the feed's own, against every skater, and says less between a top-pair defenceman and a fourth-line wing than it does between two men in the same job. The counts are shown per game for the same reason.
Usual linemates
2023-24 with SEA · 823 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
- NYR took 50.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 48.9% — 1.2 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- 1,075 minutes at five-on-five — 68th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jaden Schwartz | 52.3% | 46.4% | 48.4% |
| Jamie Oleksiak | 49.4% | 48.7% | 50.0% |
| Will Borgen | 49.4% | 48.7% | 49.9% |
52.3% together, 46.4% for him apart and 48.4% for Schwartz 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
116 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 10 of them goals. His median goal came from 15 feet. 54% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 15% from beyond forty.