Anton Blidh
Colorado Avalanche Left Wing
Thirty-two games, nine points, and 24 penalty minutes from a sixth-round pick at twenty-seven.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-17 | BOS | 19 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -2 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 3.9 | 8:47 |
| 2017-18 | BOS | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 10:23 |
| 2018-19 | BOS | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 13:46 |
| 2019-20 | BOS | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0.0 | 11:31 |
| 2020-21 | BOS | 10 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -5 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10.0 | 10:46 |
| 2021-22 | BOS | 32 | 2 | 7 | 9 | -3 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 7.1 | 10:44 |
| 2022-23 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 70 | 4 | 8 | 12 | -11 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 73 | 5.5 | 10:20 |
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 7 assists in 32 games for Boston — 9 points at 10:44 a night, minus-3, with 24 penalty minutes. He signed here in the summer.
40.5 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 319 minutes. His ice went 10-13 against an expectation of 8.28-12.16 — two more goals for than the chances promised and one more against.
Three hundred and nineteen minutes is below the 500 this book requires before it will rank a player, so no percentiles are quoted here. Boston took 56.2 per cent of the chances as a club, and his line took 40.5.
The Finesse Game
Twenty-eight shots and two goals in 32 games, from a median of 28 feet with 26 per cent from the slot. Nine points is a career high, in his sixth season and his 70th NHL game.
Twelve points in 70 career games is the whole of the offensive record.
The Physical Game
6-1 and 191, with 24 penalty minutes in 32 games and 37 in 70 career games. He is a fourth-line winger who finishes checks, and the rate is genuinely high for the minutes.
1.72 miles a game is a ten-minute-a-night figure and should be read as one.
The Intangibles
One hundred and eightieth overall in 2013 by Boston, sixth round, and 70 NHL games at 27 across six seasons of mostly American League hockey.
Colorado has lost four forwards from a Stanley Cup roster and has jobs to fill at the bottom of it. He is one of several men signed to compete for them, and 70 games in six years is what the club is betting against.
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
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.
- hard-minutes· is started in his own end, against the other club's best
32% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 5th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2021-22 · 319 minutes
- Expected goals
- 40.5%
- 4th pct
- Shot attempts
- 39.2%
- 1st 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: 10 for, 13 against. Expected: 8.3 and 12.2.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe report ranks him 25 points above where the numbers do. 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 649 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 56 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 · 32 games
- Top speed
- 22.5 mph
- 66th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.66 a game
- Distance
- 1.72 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 90.2 mph
- 68th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.0
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 84.1
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 with BOS · 319 minutes at five-on-five
- Tomas Nosek55%
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
- BOS took 56.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 40.5% — 15.7 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- 319 minutes at five-on-five — 9th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Curtis Lazar | 41.2% | 39.2% | 56.0% |
| Tomas Nosek | 42.5% | 37.7% | 53.7% |
| Brandon Carlo | 35.5% | 42.7% | 53.5% |
41.2% together, 39.2% for him apart and 56.0% for Lazar apart. Lazar 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
35 unblocked shots in 2021-22, 2 of them goals. His median goal came from 37 feet. 29% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 23% from beyond forty.