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Alexandre Carrier
Nashville Predators Defense
Five foot eleven and 174 pounds, taking 18:48 a night against other clubs' best lines.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-17 | NSH | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 | 10:24 |
| 2019-20 | NSH | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0.0 | 10:47 |
| 2020-21 | NSH | 19 | 1 | 2 | 3 | +3 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 3.2 | 20:03 |
| 2021-22 | NSH | 77 | 3 | 27 | 30 | +26 | 50 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 95 | 3.2 | 20:59 |
| 2022-23 | NSH | 43 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 0 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 48 | 4.2 | 17:53 |
| 2023-24 | NSH | 73 | 4 | 16 | 20 | +7 | 44 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 77 | 5.2 | 18:48 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 217 | 10 | 52 | 62 | +39 | 131 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 256 | 3.9 | 19:19 |
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
73 games, 4 goals and 16 assists for 20 points, 1 shorthanded, 44 penalty minutes, 18:48 a night and plus-7. He took 51.1 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,166 minutes, the 61st percentile, and his ice went 46-43 against an expectation of 46.93-44.87.
Level with the chances at one end and two fewer conceded than they called for at the other. A season that got almost exactly what the play deserved, on the hardest assignment this blue line hands out.
The Finesse Game
77 shots at a median of 48 feet with 66 per cent from beyond 40, converted at 5.2 per cent against a career 3.91.
52 career assists in 217 games. There is no shot and no power play. What he does with the puck is move it first-time to a forward and get back into position, and he does it under pressure without turning it over.
The Physical Game
He is 5-11 and 174 pounds and defends with feet, stick and position, because there is no other option available to him.
131 career penalty minutes in 217 games is a low rate. He blocks shots against men eighty pounds heavier, kills penalties, and cannot clear a crease.
The Intangibles
A fourth-round pick in 2015 out of Quebec City, six seasons and 217 games, all of it for one organisation, at a career plus-39.
He is 28 and 174 pounds and plays top-pair minutes. Almost nobody that size does this job at all, and a career plus-39 while doing it is the most under-noticed thing in this chapter.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 1,166 minutes
- Expected goals
- 51.1%
- 62nd pct
- Shot attempts
- 51.2%
- 65th 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: 46 for, 43 against. Expected: 46.9 and 44.9.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 4 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 415 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 · 1166 minutes at five-on-five
- Ryan McDonaghnow TBL21%
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
- NSH took 52.5% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 51.1% — 1.4 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- First pair, 1,166 minutes at five-on-five — 80th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jeremy Lauzon | 49.5% | 54.2% | 51.0% |
| Filip Forsberg | 51.2% | 51.1% | 55.6% |
| Ryan O'Reilly | 48.4% | 52.5% | 55.1% |
49.5% together, 54.2% for him apart and 51.0% for Lauzon apart. He was better away from Lauzon, who was no worse away from him — the pairing cost him more than it cost Lauzon.
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, 4 of them goals. His median goal came from 26 feet. 7% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 66% from beyond forty.