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Andrew Peeke

Four goals above expectation on his ice in five hundred and fifty-eight minutes, and a career minus-59 behind it.

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	CBJ	80	6	7	13	-41	22	0	0	1	90	6.7	21:15
2023-24	CBJ/BOS	38	1	9	10	-1	14	0	0	0	37	2.7	16:24
2024-25 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	233	10	34	44	-59	104	0	0	1	227	4.4	19:39

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

1 goal and 9 assists in 38 games for Columbus and Boston — 10 points at 16:24 a night, minus-1, on 37 shots with 14 penalty minutes.

44.3 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 558 minutes, the 17th percentile. His ice went 23-26 against an expectation of 18.78-23.58 — fifteen goals scored above expectation in 558 minutes, which is not a thing that repeats and should be read as the sample it is.

The Finesse Game

37 attempts at a median of 55 feet, with 80 per cent from beyond 40 and 5 per cent from inside 20, converting at 2.70 per cent. Ten goals in 233 NHL games.

Nine assists. He does not carry the puck out and the first pass is short and defensive, and there is no offensive dimension here to develop.

The Physical Game

6-3 and 214. He blocks shots and he goes to the front of his own net, and the defending is honest positional work rather than punishment.

14 penalty minutes in 38 games and 104 in 233 for his career — a low rate. He does not retaliate.

The Intangibles

Thirty-fourth overall in 2016 by Columbus, traded here in March, and 233 games with a career minus-59 on some very poor clubs.

He is 26 and he is a third-pairing defenceman on a good team, which is a considerably better job than a second-pairing one on a bad team. The four goals above expectation are the club he arrived at rather than anything he did, and four goals over 558 minutes is noise in any case.

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.

a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed
he lacks itraised, and he does not have it

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.

shot-blockera strength· gets in front of it
“**He blocks shots and he goes to the front of his own net**, and the defending is honest positional work rather than punishment.”
clears-the-creasea strength· moves grown men off the front of his net
“**He blocks shots and he goes to the front of his own net**, and the defending is honest positional work rather than punishment.”
transitionhe lacks it· carries it out; gains the line under control
“**He does not carry the puck out and the first pass is short and defensive**, and there is no offensive dimension here to develop.”
playmakerhe lacks it· passes up the shot a scorer takes
“**He does not carry the puck out and the first pass is short and defensive**, and there is no offensive dimension here to develop.”
retaliateshe lacks it· answers the cross-check, and takes the second penalty
“14 penalty minutes in 38 games and 104 in 233 for his career — a low rate. He does not retaliate.”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 558 minutes

Expected goals: 44.3%; 17th pct
Shot attempts: 45.9%; 22nd pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 23 for, 26 against. Expected: 18.8 and 23.6.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

8th

Numbers

17th

The two rank him within 9 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 652 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, 2023-24 · 38 games

Top speed: 21.4 mph; 37th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.37 a game
Distance: 2.25 miles a game
Hardest shot: 86.1 mph; 23rd pct

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

2023-24 with CBJ · 326 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, 2023-24

The club: BOS took 49.7% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 44.3% — 5.4 below the club he did it on.
The role: 558 minutes at five-on-five — 22nd percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Ivan Provorov	40.5%	46.9%	46.2%
Johnny Gaudreau	45.4%	44.1%	50.0%
Justin Danforth	38.9%	45.1%	47.2%

40.5% together, 46.9% for him apart and 46.2% for Provorov 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

61 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 1 of them goals. His median goal came from 58 feet. 5% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 80% from beyond forty.