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Blake Coleman
Calgary Flames Left Wing
Thirty goals, seven game-winners, four shorthanded goals and seventeen for his career — the most complete forward on the roster.
| 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 | CGY | 82 | 18 | 20 | 38 | +9 | 54 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 188 | 9.6 | 15:12 |
| 2023-24 | CGY | 78 | 30 | 24 | 54 | +19 | 76 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 191 | 15.7 | 17:08 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 542 | 135 | 116 | 251 | +40 | 431 | 8 | 17 | 21 | 1301 | 10.4 | 15:41 |
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
30 goals and 24 assists in 78 games — 54 points at 17:08 a night, plus-19, with 3 power-play goals, 4 shorthanded goals and 7 game-winners on 191 shots, converting at 15.71 per cent, and 76 penalty minutes. A career high in goals at 32.
Plus-nineteen on a club that finished twenty-third, and 51.9 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,121 minutes, the 67th percentile. His ice went 51-45 against an expectation of 49.52-45.93.
The Finesse Game
191 attempts at a median of 21 feet, with 49 per cent from inside 20 and 23 per cent from beyond 40, converting at 15.71 per cent against a career 10.38.
He goes to the net and he scores from the paint, and thirty goals from a checking winger is the product of shot selection and a very good year rather than a change of player.
24 assists. He does not create and he is not asked to — the job is to forecheck, kill penalties and finish what arrives.
The Physical Game
5-11 and 199, and he forechecks harder than anybody on this roster. He closes on a defenceman faster than a man that size should and he finishes every check.
431 penalty minutes in 542 games, and 76 in 78 last season. He retaliates and he plays on the edge deliberately.
The skating is the top end of the club and it is what makes both the forecheck and the penalty kill work.
The Intangibles
Seventy-fifth overall in 2011 by New Jersey, out of Miami of Ohio, and 542 games and 251 points at 32 with two Stanley Cups in Tampa and a career plus-40.
Seventeen career shorthanded goals in 542 games is the trait that defines him — he reads the pass before it is made and he is gone. On a club that has traded its goaltender and half its blue line, he is the man the room is built around.
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
78 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
“**He goes to the net and he scores from the paint**, and thirty goals from a checking winger is the product of shot selection and a very good year rather than a change of player.”
“**5-11 and 199, and he forechecks harder than anybody on this roster.** He closes on a defenceman faster than a man that size should and he finishes every check.”
“**5-11 and 199, and he forechecks harder than anybody on this roster.** He closes on a defenceman faster than a man that size should and he finishes every check.”
“**He retaliates** and he plays on the edge deliberately.”
“**Seventeen career shorthanded goals in 542 games is the trait that defines him** — he reads the pass before it is made and he is gone.”
“**He does not create and he is not asked to** — the job is to forecheck, kill penalties and finish what arrives.”
“On a club that has traded its goaltender and half its blue line, he is the man the room is built around.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 1,121 minutes
- Expected goals
- 51.9%
- 67th pct
- Shot attempts
- 54.5%
- 87th 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: 51 for, 45 against. Expected: 49.5 and 45.9.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe report ranks him 26 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 — 80 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 · 78 games
- Top speed
- 22.7 mph
- 75th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.03 a game
- Distance
- 2.79 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 84.8 mph
- 38th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.1
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 84.5
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 · 1121 minutes at five-on-five
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
- CGY took 49.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 51.9% — 2.0 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- First line, 1,121 minutes at five-on-five — 75th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mikael Backlund | 52.6% | 46.6% | 44.1% |
| Andrew Mangiapane | 52.1% | 51.7% | 51.8% |
| MacKenzie Weegar | 52.7% | 51.3% | 49.6% |
52.6% together, 46.6% for him apart and 44.1% 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
241 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 29 of them goals. His median goal came from 13 feet. 49% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 23% from beyond forty.