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Artem Zub
Ottawa Senators Defense
The 7th-worst penalty differential of 202 defencemen, a 100 mph shot, and sixteen goals of on-ice suppression.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-21 | OTT | 47 | 3 | 11 | 14 | +4 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 39 | 7.7 | 18:23 |
| 2021-22 | OTT | 81 | 6 | 16 | 22 | +1 | 60 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 92 | 6.5 | 21:02 |
| 2022-23 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 128 | 9 | 27 | 36 | +5 | 86 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 131 | 6.9 | 20:04 |
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
81 games, 6 goals and 16 assists at 21:02 a night, plus-1, sixty penalty minutes, 92 shots. Undrafted, and 128 NHL games at twenty-one minutes a night out of it. Two seasons, 36 points.
The Finesse Game
0.86 even-strength points per 60 is the 37th percentile and none of his points came on the power play — he takes sixteen seconds a night.
3.24 shots per 60 is the 18th percentile from a 53-foot median with eight per cent from the slot, on 100.0 mph — the 15th-hardest of the 192 defencemen the tracking covers. He has one of the fifteen hardest shots at his position and takes 3.2 of them an hour.
0.49 takeaways per 60 is the 9th percentile.
47.1 per cent of the expected goals is the 29th percentile and 47.9 per cent of the attempts the 32nd, out of 50.5 per cent offensive-zone starts — dead level, the 329th of 652 skaters.
His ice went 50-47 against an expectation of 56.04-62.85 — six goals short going forward and sixteen fewer against than the model asked. On a club whose goaltending rated 15th, sixteen goals of suppression on one defenceman’s ice is a genuinely large figure and the file cannot say whose it is.
The Physical Game
5.46 hits per 60 is the 69th percentile and 4.37 blocks the 57th at 6-3 and 201.
1.02 penalties taken per 60 against 0.21 drawn is the 7th-worst net of the 202 defencemen who played forty games, and sixty penalty minutes came out of eighty-one games.
On the club with the 28th-ranked penalty kill, that is the most expensive line in the file.
The Intangibles
21.7 mph is the 35th percentile, 0.4 bursts per 60 the 8th, 8.06 miles per 60 the 13th. He is slow, almost never sprints and covers less ground than seven-eighths of the position.
He is 27, undrafted, and has two NHL seasons behind him. The shot speed, the blocks and the sixteen goals of on-ice suppression are the case; the penalty ledger, the takeaway rate and every skating measurement are 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
- 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.
- perimeter· shoots from the outside, by choice or because he cannot get in
83.2% of his attempts from 40 feet or beyond, 92nd percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
- hard-shot· beats a goaltender from range
4 of 104 attempts from 40 feet or beyond, 3.8%, 91st percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.21) · 16% keep it
- durable· was available
81 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
“Undrafted, and 128 NHL games at twenty-one minutes a night out of it.”
“1.02 penalties taken per 60 against 0.21 drawn is the 7th-worst net of the 202 defencemen who played forty games, and sixty penalty minutes came out of eighty-one games.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2021-22 · 1,483 minutes
- Expected goals
- 47.1%
- 33rd pct
- Shot attempts
- 47.9%
- 36th 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: 50 for, 47 against. Expected: 56.0 and 62.9.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe report ranks him 20 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 — 61 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 · 81 games
- Top speed
- 21.7 mph
- 54th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.15 a game
- Distance
- 2.83 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 100.0 mph
- 94th 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 · 1483 minutes at five-on-five
- Nick Holden32%
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
- OTT took 47.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 47.1% — level with the club he did it on.
- The role
- First pair, 1,483 minutes at five-on-five — 97th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nick Holden | 45.6% | 47.8% | 48.6% |
| Brady Tkachuk | 51.4% | 45.1% | 47.7% |
| Thomas Chabot | 51.7% | 45.3% | 47.7% |
45.6% together, 47.8% for him apart and 48.6% for Holden apart. Holden 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
125 unblocked shots in 2021-22, 6 of them goals. His median goal came from 51 feet. 7% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 83% from beyond forty.