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Andreas Englund
Los Angeles Kings Defense
Eighty NHL games across five seasons and eight years, and no goals in any of them.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-17 | OTT | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0.0 | 10:38 |
| 2017-18 | OTT | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 11:21 |
| 2018-19 | OTT | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.0 | 13:20 |
| 2019-20 | OTT | 24 | 0 | 3 | 3 | -8 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0.0 | 10:54 |
| 2022-23 | COL/CHI | 47 | 0 | 4 | 4 | -1 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 0.0 | 12:07 |
| 2023-24 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 80 | 0 | 7 | 7 | -13 | 59 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 46 | 0.0 | 11:42 |
This Season So Far
The 2023-24 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
0 goals and 4 assists in 47 games — 4 points — split between Colorado and Chicago. Minus-1, 12:07 a night, 31 shots, 35 penalty minutes.
47.8 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 36th percentile, with his ice at 14-17 against an expectation of 17.60-19.26 across 537 minutes.
Five NHL seasons, eighty games, and no goals in any of them. Forty overall in 2014, and it took him until twenty-seven to play half a season.
Eighty games, seven points.
The Finesse Game
31 shots at a median of 52 feet, 4 per cent from inside twenty and 76 per cent from beyond forty.
Beyond forty: 23 shots on goal and no goals. Inside forty: 7 shots and no goals.
Fifty-two tracked attempts in a season is a defenceman who does not shoot, and seven shots on goal from inside forty feet is a defenceman who never leaves the blue line. There is no offensive dimension here at all.
86.3 mph at the 18th percentile, on four slap shots.
The Physical Game
6-4 and 200, and 35 penalty minutes in 47 games.
Top speed 22.8 mph, the 80th percentile, which is a genuinely quick reading for a defenceman of this description. Bursts 0.7 a game, the 36th; 1.67 miles a game, the 3rd — a twelve-minute third-pair role, and the distance says so.
He defends by taking the body and clearing the crease, and the 35 penalty minutes in 47 games are a high rate that comes from doing it a half-beat late.
The Intangibles
Fortieth overall in 2014 to Ottawa, four Ottawa seasons producing thirty-three games, two years out of the league, and then forty-seven games in Colorado and Chicago at twenty-seven.
28.1 per cent of his five-on-five shifts started in the attacking zone, the 2nd percentile.
Los Angeles signed him as a seventh defenceman. This book records the eighty games and the seven points and makes no further claim.
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
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.
- drives-play· the shot clock turns his way while he is out there
47.8% of the expected goals at five-on-five with him on, 41.7% for his club in the minutes he sat: +6.1, 95th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats moderately (0.39) · 29% keep it
- hard-minutes· is started in his own end, against the other club's best
28% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 1st percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
“He defends by taking the body and clearing the crease, and the 35 penalty minutes in 47 games are a high rate that comes from doing it a half-beat late.”
“He defends by taking the body and clearing the crease, and the 35 penalty minutes in 47 games are a high rate that comes from doing it a half-beat late.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2022-23 · 537 minutes
- Expected goals
- 47.8%
- 36th pct
- Shot attempts
- 49.5%
- 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: 14 for, 17 against. Expected: 17.6 and 19.3.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 21 points above where the report does. 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. Why the numbers land there sets out the club he did it on, the minutes he played and the men he played them with.
Both bars are percentiles among the 638 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 57 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, 2022-23 · 47 games
- Top speed
- 22.8 mph
- 93rd pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.68 a game
- Distance
- 1.67 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 86.3 mph
- 22nd pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.5
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 90.0
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
2022-23 with COL · 389 minutes at five-on-five
- Brad Huntoff the roster32%
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, 2022-23
- The club
- CHI took 42.4% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 47.8% — 5.4 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- 537 minutes at five-on-five — 18th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| J.T. Compher | 49.7% | 47.1% | 52.9% |
| Brad Hunt | 53.1% | 46.3% | 49.0% |
| Alex Newhook | 54.2% | 45.9% | 51.0% |
49.7% together, 47.1% for him apart and 52.9% for Compher apart. Compher was better away from him while his own share held, which is a mark against him more than for him.
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
51 unblocked shots in 2022-23, 0 of them goals. 4% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 76% from beyond forty.