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Andrew Peeke
Columbus Blue Jackets Defense
Eighty-two games at 21:29 with 3:13 shorthanded, and 43.7 per cent of the chances — the 7th percentile among defencemen.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 | CBJ | 22 | 1 | 2 | 3 | +1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 4.3 | 13:51 |
| 2020-21 | CBJ | 11 | 0 | 3 | 3 | -4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0.0 | 17:09 |
| 2021-22 | CBJ | 82 | 2 | 13 | 15 | -14 | 60 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 72 | 2.8 | 21:29 |
| 2022-23 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 115 | 3 | 18 | 21 | -17 | 68 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 3.0 | 19:37 |
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
2 goals and 13 assists in 82 games — 15 points at 21:29 a night, minus-14, with 60 penalty minutes.
43.7 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,476 minutes, the 7th percentile among defencemen. His ice went 51-77 against an expectation of 52.87-68.06 — the goals against ran nine past the chances.
3:13 a night shorthanded is the 98th percentile among defencemen. He played all 82 games in his first full season and drew the hardest defensive assignment on a club that had no easy ones.
The Finesse Game
2.45 shots per 60 is the 8th-lowest of the 202 qualified defencemen, on a median distance of 53 feet with 79 per cent of them coming from beyond 40. Two goals in 82 games at 2.8 per cent.
1.06 giveaways per 60 is the 7th percentile among defencemen — which for a fault is a virtue. The offence is not there and he does not pretend it is; the puck goes to the safe man or off the glass, and that is the whole of the description.
The Physical Game
6-3 and 214, 6.51 hits and 5.76 blocks per 60, the 79th and 88th percentiles among defencemen. This is the part of his game that is real. He takes the man, he gets in front of pucks, and he plays the whole 82.
39.1 per cent of his even-strength time was spent in the offensive zone, the 4th percentile among defencemen. Only his partner started further from the other goal.
The Intangibles
Thirty-fourth overall in 2016, and 115 NHL games at 24 with three goals in them.
Paired with Vladislav Gavrikov for 1,110 attempts, the pair took 42.7 per cent; apart, Gavrikov was at 47.2 and Peeke at 44.5. Neither of them was carrying the other, which on a club that allowed the most expected goals in hockey is the honest reading: this was the top pair, and it was the top pair because there was nobody else.
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.
- durable· was available
82 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
- hard-minutes· is started in his own end, against the other club's best
40% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 8th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
“6.51 hits and 5.76 blocks per 60, the 79th and 88th percentiles among defencemen.”
“3:13 a night shorthanded is the 98th percentile among defencemen.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2021-22 · 1,476 minutes
- Expected goals
- 43.7%
- 13th pct
- Shot attempts
- 45.7%
- 19th 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: 51 for, 77 against. Expected: 52.9 and 68.1.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 0 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 — 52 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 · 82 games
- Top speed
- 22.3 mph
- 77th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.27 a game
- Distance
- 3.02 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 91.7 mph
- 46th 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 90.4
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 · 1476 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, 2021-22
- The club
- CBJ took 44.8% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 43.7% — 1.1 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- First pair, 1,476 minutes at five-on-five — 97th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vladislav Gavrikov | 42.7% | 44.5% | 47.2% |
| Zach Werenski | 44.0% | 43.6% | 46.5% |
| Gustav Nyquist | 41.6% | 44.6% | 44.5% |
42.7% together, 44.5% for him apart and 47.2% for Gavrikov apart. Gavrikov 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
102 unblocked shots in 2021-22, 1 of them goals. His median goal came from 41 feet. 5% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 79% from beyond forty.