Armchair Hockey Scout Beta

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Barclay Goodrow

San Jose Sharks Center

Five hundred and nine career penalty minutes in 572 games, coming back to the club that gave him his start.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2014-15SJS604812-135002685.911:04
2015-16SJS14033+11600070.010:16
2016-17SJS30110000030.011:18
2017-18SJS477714+1280115712.310:53
2018-19SJS8271017+476013848.311:01
2019-20SJS/TBL7081826-8970021027.815:56
2020-21TBL5561420+1652001728.315:07
2021-22NYR79132033+136901211611.216:43
2022-23NYR82112031+3581028912.414:10
2023-24NYR804812-1378011616.612:34
2024-25 so far
Career57260109169+1650914146599.113:27

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

80 games with the Rangers, 4 goals and 8 assists for 12 points, 1 shorthanded, 78 penalty minutes, 12:34 a night and minus-13, with 1 game-winner. He took 40.1 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 836 minutes, the 10th percentile, and his ice went 21-36 against an expectation of 25.02-37.45.

Four goals of finishing below what the chances were worth and a goal and a half of goaltending above them. Twelve points in 80 games is the lowest total of any full season he has played.

The Finesse Game

81 attempts at a median of 23 feet with 46 per cent of them from inside twenty, 55 of those on goal, converted at 6.6 per cent against a career 9.10 across 659 shots.

One power-play goal in 572 career games. Everything he produces comes from going to the net and from the forecheck; 109 career assists is the puck he wins on the wall handed to somebody who can do something with it.

The Physical Game

He is 6-2 and 210 and took 78 penalty minutes.

509 career penalty minutes in 572 games. He is the heaviest forechecker on this roster and finishes every check he can reach, fights when the club needs one, and has built a decade out of doing the parts of the job nobody volunteers for.

The Intangibles

Undrafted, ten seasons, three organisations, and 169 points in 572 games.

Four career shorthanded goals and a career plus-16. He was undrafted, played parts of six seasons in San Jose to begin with, and comes back at 31 to a club that has 47 points.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 836 minutes

Expected goals
40.1%
5th pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
39.4%
1st pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 21 for, 36 against. Expected: 25.0 and 37.5.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight
Report
72nd
Numbers
5th

The report ranks him 67 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 652 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 74 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 with NYR · 836 minutes at five-on-five

  • Tyler Pitlickoff the roster32%
  • Nick Boninooff the roster16%

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
NYR took 50.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 40.1% — 10.0 below the club he did it on.
The role
Fourth line, 836 minutes at five-on-five — 42nd percentile in ice time.

With and without

TeammateTogetherHim apartMate apart
Jimmy Vesey44.1%27.5%49.4%
K'Andre Miller37.5%42.0%51.7%
Jacob Trouba37.9%41.4%51.0%

44.1% together, 27.5% for him apart and 49.4% for Vesey apart. He was the one being carried: the share went with Vesey and did not follow 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

81 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 4 of them goals. His median goal came from 14 feet. 47% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 20% from beyond forty.