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Blake Coleman
Calgary Flames Left Wing
Two hundred and twelve shots at 7.5 per cent, and 65.8 per cent of the chances with Andrew Mangiapane against 49.7 without.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-17 | NJD | 23 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -7 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 3.5 | 12:51 |
| 2017-18 | NJD | 79 | 13 | 12 | 25 | +7 | 50 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 146 | 8.9 | 14:24 |
| 2018-19 | NJD | 78 | 22 | 14 | 36 | -19 | 71 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 213 | 10.3 | 17:01 |
| 2019-20 | NJD/TBL | 66 | 21 | 11 | 32 | 0 | 56 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 200 | 10.5 | 16:43 |
| 2020-21 | TBL | 55 | 14 | 17 | 31 | +15 | 37 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 122 | 11.5 | 15:28 |
| 2021-22 | CGY | 81 | 16 | 17 | 33 | +16 | 60 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 212 | 7.5 | 14:49 |
| 2022-23 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 382 | 87 | 72 | 159 | +12 | 301 | 5 | 11 | 12 | 922 | 9.4 | 15:29 |
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
16 goals and 17 assists in 81 games — 33 points at 14:49 a night, plus-16, with 60 penalty minutes.
56.4 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,055 minutes, the 88th percentile among forwards, and 57.2 per cent of the shot attempts, the 94th. His ice went 41-32 against an expectation of 48.8-37.8 — eight fewer goals for than the chances promised and six fewer against.
Two hundred and twelve shots and sixteen goals. That is 7.5 per cent, the 16th percentile.
The Finesse Game
10.60 shots per 60 is the 92nd percentile among forwards — a genuinely enormous volume from a third-line winger — at 7.5 per cent, from a median of 24 feet with 53 per cent from the slot.
None of his 33 points came on the power play. That is the 0th percentile in power-play share, and everything he produced he produced at even strength or shorthanded.
2.35 giveaways per 60 is the 88th percentile and counts against him.
The Physical Game
5-11 and 199. 8.15 hits per 60 is the 82nd percentile among forwards and 2.20 blocks is the 76th, with 1:29 a night shorthanded at the 73rd.
1.35 penalties taken per 60 is the 88th percentile and it is a fault — 60 penalty minutes, and a drawn-minus-taken of minus-0.30 at the 15th percentile. He forechecks hard enough to be late, often.
22.3 mph is the 42nd percentile and 9.92 miles per 60 is the 74th. He is not fast; he is early.
The Intangibles
Seventy-fifth overall in 2011 by New Jersey, two Stanley Cups in Tampa, and 382 NHL games at 30 with 159 points.
With Andrew Mangiapane on the ice Calgary took 65.8 per cent of the chances; Coleman without him was at 49.7, across 800 attempts together and 1,097 apart. Both are real samples and the gap is sixteen points. He is the passenger on the best possession line in the league, and that is worth saying plainly about a man who is paid as though he is the engine.
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.
- durable· was available
81 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
“He forechecks hard enough to be late, often.”
“1.35 penalties taken per 60 is the 88th percentile and it is a fault”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2021-22 · 1,055 minutes
- Expected goals
- 56.4%
- 91st pct
- Shot attempts
- 57.2%
- 96th 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: 41 for, 32 against. Expected: 48.8 and 37.8.
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 649 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 66 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
- 22.3 mph
- 58th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.31 a game
- Distance
- 2.45 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 92.1 mph
- 77th 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 · 1055 minutes at five-on-five
- Trevor Lewis22%
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
- CGY took 55.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 56.4% — 1.2 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Second line, 1,055 minutes at five-on-five — 69th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mikael Backlund | 59.9% | 51.1% | 51.2% |
| Andrew Mangiapane | 65.8% | 49.7% | 55.0% |
| Rasmus Andersson | 57.3% | 55.8% | 56.8% |
59.9% together, 51.1% for him apart and 51.2% for Backlund apart. Both were worse apart, so whatever the two of them had together was doing real work.
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
249 unblocked shots in 2021-22, 16 of them goals. His median goal came from 15 feet. 39% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 24% from beyond forty.