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Anthony Cirelli
Tampa Bay Lightning Center
Thirteen career shorthanded goals in 431 games, and a career plus-94.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-18 | TBL | 18 | 5 | 6 | 11 | +11 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 19.2 | 13:14 |
| 2018-19 | TBL | 82 | 19 | 20 | 39 | +25 | 34 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 123 | 15.4 | 14:51 |
| 2019-20 | TBL | 68 | 16 | 28 | 44 | +28 | 30 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 113 | 14.2 | 18:27 |
| 2020-21 | TBL | 50 | 9 | 13 | 22 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 75 | 12.0 | 17:45 |
| 2021-22 | TBL | 76 | 17 | 26 | 43 | +15 | 70 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 146 | 11.6 | 18:19 |
| 2022-23 | TBL | 58 | 11 | 18 | 29 | +13 | 33 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 111 | 9.9 | 16:34 |
| 2023-24 | TBL | 79 | 20 | 25 | 45 | +2 | 38 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 129 | 15.5 | 18:31 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 431 | 97 | 136 | 233 | +94 | 221 | 9 | 13 | 19 | 723 | 13.4 | 17:12 |
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
79 games, 20 goals and 25 assists for 45 points, 3 on the power play, 2 shorthanded, 38 penalty minutes, 18:31 a night and plus-2, with 3 game-winners. He took 52.4 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,128 minutes, the 72nd percentile, and his ice went 48-54 against an expectation of 45.90-41.62.
Two goals of finishing above what the chances were worth and twelve more conceded than they called for. Twenty goals is a career high by one.
The Finesse Game
182 attempts at a median of 21 feet with 49 per cent of them from inside twenty, 124 of those on goal, converted at 15.5 per cent against a career 13.42 across 723 shots.
Ninety-seven career goals and 136 assists in 431 games. He gets to the inside without the puck as reliably as anybody on this club and finishes from there; half his attempts come from within twenty feet and he has never taken a power-play shift he did not earn.
The Physical Game
He is 6-1 and 193 and took 38 penalty minutes.
221 career penalty minutes in 431 games. He is not large and does not hit much, but he is relentless on the backcheck and takes the stick away rather than the body, which is why the penalty total stays low for a defensive centre.
The Intangibles
Seventy-second overall in 2015 by Tampa Bay, seven seasons, one organisation, and 233 points in 431 games.
Thirteen career shorthanded goals in 431 games and a career plus-94, behind only Nikita Kucherov among the forwards here. Twenty goals and 45 points from a defensive centre is more than the job usually returns.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 1,128 minutes
- Expected goals
- 52.4%
- 71st pct
- Shot attempts
- 52.2%
- 73rd 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: 48 for, 54 against. Expected: 45.9 and 41.6.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 19 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 — 79 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 · 1128 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
- TBL took 50.5% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 52.4% — 1.9 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Second line, 1,128 minutes at five-on-five — 76th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brandon Hagel | 54.0% | 50.0% | 56.3% |
| Steven Stamkos | 47.6% | 55.6% | 51.2% |
| Erik Cernak | 47.0% | 55.4% | 48.2% |
54.0% together, 50.0% for him apart and 56.3% for Hagel apart. He was worse away from Hagel, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Hagel 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
182 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 19 of them goals. His median goal came from 14 feet. 49% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 18% from beyond forty.