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Bo Horvat
New York Islanders Center
Thirteen career shorthanded goals, 241 goals in 732 games, and a career minus-70 that belongs to Vancouver.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-15 | VAN | 68 | 13 | 12 | 25 | -8 | 16 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 93 | 14.0 | 12:16 |
| 2015-16 | VAN | 82 | 16 | 24 | 40 | -30 | 18 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 155 | 10.3 | 17:08 |
| 2016-17 | VAN | 81 | 20 | 32 | 52 | -7 | 27 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 158 | 12.7 | 18:02 |
| 2017-18 | VAN | 64 | 22 | 22 | 44 | -1 | 10 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 158 | 13.9 | 19:21 |
| 2018-19 | VAN | 82 | 27 | 34 | 61 | -4 | 33 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 227 | 11.9 | 20:50 |
| 2019-20 | VAN | 69 | 22 | 31 | 53 | -15 | 21 | 12 | 0 | 2 | 178 | 12.4 | 19:44 |
| 2020-21 | VAN | 56 | 19 | 20 | 39 | -6 | 23 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 131 | 14.5 | 19:53 |
| 2021-22 | VAN | 70 | 31 | 21 | 52 | +3 | 40 | 13 | 1 | 4 | 194 | 16.0 | 19:31 |
| 2022-23 | VAN/NYI | 79 | 38 | 32 | 70 | -1 | 18 | 12 | 4 | 5 | 229 | 16.6 | 20:40 |
| 2023-24 | NYI | 81 | 33 | 35 | 68 | -1 | 39 | 10 | 1 | 6 | 248 | 13.3 | 19:42 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 732 | 241 | 263 | 504 | -70 | 245 | 78 | 13 | 32 | 1771 | 13.6 | 18:44 |
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
81 games, 33 goals and 35 assists for 68 points, 10 on the power play, 1 shorthanded, 39 penalty minutes, 19:42 a night and minus-1. He took 53.2 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,216 minutes, the 77th percentile, and his ice went 61-49 against an expectation of 59.46-52.39.
Two goals of finishing above what the chances were worth and three fewer conceded than they called for. Thirty-three goals on a club that scored 246 is a very large share of it.
The Finesse Game
337 attempts at a median of 25 feet with 35 per cent from inside 20, 248 of them on goal, converted at 13.3 per cent against a career 13.61.
263 career assists in 732 games. The shot is heavy and comes from the top of the circle, and he gets to the middle by going through people rather than around them. Nothing about the conversion rate is unsustainable.
The Physical Game
He is 6-1 and 225 and wins the wall and the front of the net against anybody.
245 career penalty minutes in 732 games is a low rate for a centre who plays this way. He takes the defensive-zone draw, kills penalties, and has 13 career shorthanded goals.
The Intangibles
Ninth overall in 2013 out of London, Ontario, ten seasons across two organisations, and 504 points in 732 games at a career minus-70.
He is 29 and the career minus-70 is nine seasons of bad Vancouver clubs rather than a description of him — he was minus-1 last season on a club that was outshot by everybody. Thirty-three goals and a hard matchup is a first-line centre.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 1,216 minutes
- Expected goals
- 53.2%
- 77th pct
- Shot attempts
- 51.8%
- 70th 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, 49 against. Expected: 59.5 and 52.4.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 12 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 415 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 75 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 · 1216 minutes at five-on-five
- Anders Lee47%
- Brock Nelson18%
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
- NYI took 49.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 53.2% — 4.1 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- First line, 1,216 minutes at five-on-five — 84th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mathew Barzal | 55.2% | 44.6% | 44.9% |
| Anders Lee | 54.9% | 51.4% | 51.7% |
| Noah Dobson | 52.4% | 53.7% | 48.0% |
55.2% together, 44.6% for him apart and 44.9% for Barzal 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
337 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 35 of them goals. His median goal came from 21 feet. 35% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 18% from beyond forty.