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Ben Meyers
Seattle Kraken Center
Undrafted, 67 career games across three organisations, and six goals against two assists.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | COL | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 12.5 | 9:57 |
| 2022-23 | COL | 39 | 4 | 0 | 4 | -6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 12.1 | 9:36 |
| 2023-24 | COL/ANA | 23 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -4 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 8.3 | 10:07 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 67 | 6 | 2 | 8 | -12 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 53 | 11.3 | 9:48 |
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
23 games with Anaheim, 1 goal and 2 assists, 6 penalty minutes, 10:07 a night and minus-4. He took 43.8 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 222 minutes, the 14th percentile, and his ice went 5-10 against an expectation of 5.19-6.66.
Level with the chances at the offensive end and three more conceded than they called for, across two hundred minutes. Twenty-three games is the most he has played in a season.
The Finesse Game
20 attempts at a median of 24 feet, 10 of those on goal, converted at 8.3 per cent against a career 11.32 across 53 shots.
Six career goals against two assists in 67 games. He shoots rather than passes and there is very little playmaking in his game; three-to-one in favour of goals over assists is an unusual line for a fourth-line centre.
The Physical Game
He is 5-11 and 194 and took 6 penalty minutes.
Twelve career penalty minutes in 67 games. He is a quick, compact forward who forechecks hard without finishing many checks, and at ten minutes a night the job is to skate and not to be scored on.
The Intangibles
Undrafted, three seasons, three organisations, and 8 points in 67 games.
A career minus-12 in 67 games. He was undrafted, reached the league at 23, and has been a thirteenth forward for three clubs in three years.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 222 minutes
- Expected goals
- 43.8%
- 14th pct
- Shot attempts
- 48.1%
- 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: 5 for, 10 against. Expected: 5.2 and 6.7.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 17 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 — 65 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 ANA · 138 minutes at five-on-five
- Jakob Silfverbergoff the roster35%
- Brett Leason34%
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
- ANA took 45.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 43.8% — 2.1 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- 222 minutes at five-on-five — 2nd percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Olen Zellweger | 42.8% | 44.2% | 43.7% |
| Cam Fowler | 43.5% | 43.9% | 44.6% |
| Jakob Silfverberg | 50.3% | 41.2% | 49.6% |
42.8% together, 44.2% for him apart and 43.7% for Zellweger apart. Splitting them up moved neither man. Whatever is driving the share, it is not this pairing.
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
20 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 1 of them goals. His median goal came from 20 feet. 35% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 30% from beyond forty.