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Andreas Athanasiou
Chicago Blackhawks Center
Eleven goals in 28 games at 15.5 per cent, and a career minus-75 in 378.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-16 | DET | 37 | 9 | 5 | 14 | +1 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 53 | 17.0 | 9:01 |
| 2016-17 | DET | 64 | 18 | 11 | 29 | -7 | 28 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 120 | 15.0 | 13:28 |
| 2017-18 | DET | 71 | 16 | 17 | 33 | -15 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 170 | 9.4 | 15:19 |
| 2018-19 | DET | 76 | 30 | 24 | 54 | -9 | 38 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 216 | 13.9 | 16:58 |
| 2019-20 | DET/EDM | 55 | 11 | 15 | 26 | -46 | 30 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 129 | 8.5 | 15:51 |
| 2020-21 | LAK | 47 | 10 | 13 | 23 | -6 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 85 | 11.8 | 14:57 |
| 2021-22 | LAK | 28 | 11 | 6 | 17 | +7 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 71 | 15.5 | 15:14 |
| 2022-23 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 378 | 105 | 91 | 196 | -75 | 148 | 8 | 1 | 16 | 844 | 12.4 | 14:45 |
This Season So Far
The 2022-23 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
11 goals and 6 assists in 28 games for Los Angeles — 17 points at 15:14 a night, plus-7, with 4 penalty minutes. He signed here in July.
48.4 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 362 minutes. His ice went 17-11 against an expectation of 15.91-16.94 — six fewer goals against than the chances promised, over a sample too small to mean anything.
Three hundred and sixty-two minutes is below the 500 this book requires before it will rank a player, so no percentiles are quoted here.
The Finesse Game
Seventy-one shots and eleven goals at 15.5 per cent, from a median of 28 feet with 39 per cent from the slot. Eleven goals in 28 games is a thirty-goal pace across a quarter of a season.
Thirty goals in 2018-19 remains the season everybody remembers, and he has scored 32 in the 130 games since.
The Physical Game
6-2 and 190. 23.2 mph and 3.3 bursts over 20 mph a game are the top-decile figures on his page and they are the whole of the case: he is one of the genuinely fast men in the league and has been since he arrived.
A career minus-75 in 378 games is what the other end of that has looked like. He plays one direction at speed and the puck comes back the other way.
The Intangibles
One hundred and tenth overall in 2012 by Detroit, fourth round, and 378 NHL games at 28 with 196 points.
He is on his fourth club in three years, on a one-year arrangement, on a team with four top-six jobs open. Chicago has traded Alex DeBrincat, Dylan Strome, Kirby Dach and Dominik Kubalik, and a 30-goal scorer’s speed at 28 is exactly the kind of bet a rebuilding club should be making.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2021-22 · 362 minutes
- Expected goals
- 48.4%
- 42nd pct
- Shot attempts
- 49.5%
- 50th 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: 17 for, 11 against. Expected: 15.9 and 16.9.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 16 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 649 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 55 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, 2021-22 · 28 games
- Top speed
- 23.2 mph
- 92nd pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 3.29 a game
- Distance
- 2.35 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 96.5 mph
- 95th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.0
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 84.1
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
2021-22 with LAK · 362 minutes at five-on-five
- Alex Iafallo31%
- Dustin Brownoff the roster25%
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, 2021-22
- The club
- LAK took 52.8% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 48.4% — 4.4 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- 362 minutes at five-on-five — 11th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Matt Roy | 46.6% | 49.7% | 54.0% |
| Phillip Danault | 53.8% | 45.2% | 56.9% |
| Olli Määttä | 52.7% | 45.9% | 51.7% |
46.6% together, 49.7% for him apart and 54.0% for Roy apart. Both were better apart than together — the pairing was doing neither of them any favours.
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
104 unblocked shots in 2021-22, 11 of them goals. His median goal came from 20 feet. 39% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 27% from beyond forty.