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Ben Chiarot
Detroit Red Wings Defense
Four hundred and fifty-eight penalty minutes in 642 games, nineteen minutes a night at 33, and a career minus-44.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-14 | WPG | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 10:47 |
| 2014-15 | WPG | 40 | 2 | 6 | 8 | +5 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 37 | 5.4 | 17:01 |
| 2015-16 | WPG | 70 | 1 | 9 | 10 | -9 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 74 | 1.4 | 14:27 |
| 2016-17 | WPG | 59 | 2 | 10 | 12 | +2 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 49 | 4.1 | 15:19 |
| 2017-18 | WPG | 57 | 2 | 12 | 14 | +15 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 57 | 3.5 | 15:17 |
| 2018-19 | WPG | 78 | 5 | 15 | 20 | +6 | 62 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 111 | 4.5 | 18:37 |
| 2019-20 | MTL | 69 | 9 | 12 | 21 | +5 | 61 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 130 | 6.9 | 23:08 |
| 2020-21 | MTL | 41 | 1 | 6 | 7 | -16 | 50 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 81 | 1.2 | 21:47 |
| 2021-22 | MTL/FLA | 74 | 9 | 17 | 26 | -14 | 48 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 143 | 6.3 | 22:51 |
| 2022-23 | DET | 76 | 5 | 14 | 19 | -31 | 51 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 110 | 4.5 | 20:36 |
| 2023-24 | DET | 77 | 5 | 15 | 20 | -4 | 56 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 107 | 4.7 | 19:47 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 642 | 41 | 116 | 157 | -44 | 458 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 899 | 4.6 | 19:00 |
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
Seventy-seven games, 5 goals and 15 assists, 56 penalty minutes, 19:47 a night and minus-4. He took 44.6 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,322 minutes, the 19th percentile, and his ice went 61-75 against an expectation of 47.65-59.23.
The goals against arrived exactly as the chances predicted and eleven more went in the other way, which is the club’s shooting rather than his defending. Nineteen and three-quarter minutes a night at 33 on the second pair.
The Finesse Game
One hundred and seven shots at a median of 51 feet with 68 per cent from beyond 40, and 5 went in. Forty-one goals in 642 career games at 4.56 per cent.
One hundred and sixteen career assists. The first pass is the simple one and it is made quickly. He does not carry the puck out and does not try to — the skating has never been there and at 33 it is the limitation that decides which minutes he can play.
The Physical Game
Four hundred and fifty-eight penalty minutes in 642 games is the record of a defenceman who plays the game in the corners and the crease. He punishes people along the wall at 6-3 and 222 and he does it every shift.
He blocks shots and clears the front of his own net, and he is genuinely hard to move once he has position. Fifty-six penalty minutes in 77 games is a moderate rate for a man who plays this way and a fair share of it comes after being beaten to a spot.
The Intangibles
A fourth-round pick in 2009 out of Hamilton, eleven seasons and 642 games across Winnipeg, Montreal, Florida and Detroit, and a run to a final in Montreal.
He is 33 on a club whose defence is a 23-year-old and four men over thirty. A career minus-44 says what kind of clubs those have been.
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
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.
“He punishes people along the wall at 6-3 and 222 and he does it every shift.”
“He blocks shots and clears the front of his own net, and he is genuinely hard to move once he has position.”
“Fifty-six penalty minutes in 77 games is a moderate rate for a man who plays this way and a fair share of it comes after being beaten to a spot.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 1,322 minutes
- Expected goals
- 44.6%
- 19th pct
- Shot attempts
- 43.4%
- 10th 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: 61 for, 75 against. Expected: 47.6 and 59.2.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 8 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 — 58 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 · 77 games
- Top speed
- 22.1 mph
- 67th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.55 a game
- Distance
- 2.75 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 94.5 mph
- 68th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.7
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 90.2
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 · 1322 minutes at five-on-five
- Jeff Petry55%
- Justin Holl10%
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
- DET took 45.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 44.6% — 1.3 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- First pair, 1,322 minutes at five-on-five — 91st percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jeff Petry | 44.7% | 44.5% | 52.5% |
| Alex DeBrincat | 51.5% | 41.5% | 48.3% |
| Lucas Raymond | 45.4% | 44.2% | 49.6% |
44.7% together, 44.5% for him apart and 52.5% for Petry apart. Petry 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
147 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 5 of them goals. His median goal came from 24 feet. 10% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 68% from beyond forty.