Andreas Athanasiou
Chicago Blackhawks Center
A career minus-111 in 487 games, and twenty-eight of them last season before the body gave out.
| 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 | CHI | 81 | 20 | 20 | 40 | -29 | 34 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 175 | 11.4 | 16:00 |
| 2023-24 | CHI | 28 | 2 | 7 | 9 | -7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 44 | 4.5 | 13:06 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 487 | 127 | 118 | 245 | -111 | 189 | 11 | 1 | 20 | 1063 | 11.9 | 14:51 |
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
Twenty-eight games, 2 goals and 7 assists, 13:06 a night and minus-7. He took 39.0 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 333 minutes, the 2nd percentile, and his ice went 14-18 against an expectation of 11.19-17.52.
Twenty-eight games from a man who played 81 the season before. He converted 4.55 per cent of 44 shots against a career 11.95, and 9 points is the worst rate of his career.
The Finesse Game
The skating is elite and it is the only reason he has 487 games. He is among the fastest men in the league in a straight line and a defenceman who gives him a step does not get it back.
One hundred and twenty-seven career goals on 1,063 shots at 11.95 per cent is a real finishing rate, built almost entirely on breakaways and odd-man rushes. Two goals in 28 games last season is what happens when the club never gets the puck to give him one — Chicago took 43.7 per cent of the shot attempts.
The Physical Game
He is 6-2 and 190 and does not use it. Seven penalty minutes in 28 games and 189 in 487 is a low rate, and the game is played entirely away from contact.
He does not forecheck and does not retrieve. A career minus-111 across 487 games is the number that follows a player who takes off before the puck is won.
The Intangibles
A fourth-round pick in 2012 who scored 30 goals for Detroit at 24 and has been chasing it for six seasons across five clubs. He is 30, and 28 games in a season is now the pattern rather than the exception.
The speed is still there. Nothing else about the season suggests a role.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 333 minutes
- Expected goals
- 39%
- 2nd pct
- Shot attempts
- 40.6%
- 2nd 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: 14 for, 18 against. Expected: 11.2 and 17.5.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 1 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 201 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 51 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 · 333 minutes at five-on-five
- Taylor Raddyshnow WSH23%
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
- CHI took 41.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 39.0% — 2.9 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- 333 minutes at five-on-five — 8th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lukas Reichel | 40.4% | 36.9% | 38.8% |
| Kevin Korchinski | 37.8% | 39.6% | 41.0% |
| Seth Jones | 39.3% | 38.8% | 44.8% |
40.4% together, 36.9% for him apart and 38.8% for Reichel apart. He was worse away from Reichel, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Reichel did.
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
55 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 2 of them goals. His median goal came from 25 feet. 35% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 27% from beyond forty.