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Bobby Brink
Philadelphia Flyers Right Wing
Five-eight and 169 pounds, the smallest man on the roster, with 23 points in 57 games.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | PHI | 10 | 0 | 4 | 4 | -5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 0.0 | 15:27 |
| 2023-24 | PHI | 57 | 11 | 12 | 23 | +1 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 81 | 13.6 | 13:48 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 67 | 11 | 16 | 27 | -4 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 99 | 11.1 | 14:03 |
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
57 games, 11 goals and 12 assists for 23 points, 3 on the power play, 10 penalty minutes, 13:48 a night and plus-1, with 2 game-winners. He took 48.6 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 666 minutes, the 42nd percentile, and his ice went 27-22 against an expectation of 25.32-26.73.
Two goals of finishing above what the chances were worth and five fewer conceded than they called for, which is one of only three positive goaltending figures among the club’s forwards. Twenty-three points in 57 games in a first real season.
The Finesse Game
110 attempts at a median of 22 feet with 47 per cent of them from inside twenty, 81 of those on goal, converted at 13.6 per cent against a career 11.11 across 99 shots.
16 career assists in 67 games. He is a skilled, slow, small forward who thinks a beat ahead of the play and holds pucks in traffic longer than his size should allow. Three power-play goals in 57 games came on the worst power play in the league.
The Physical Game
He is 5-8 and 169 and took 10 penalty minutes.
10 career penalty minutes in 67 games. He is the smallest man on this roster by two inches and there is no physical component to his game at all; he is knocked off pucks by anybody who reaches him and survives by not being reachable.
The Intangibles
Thirty-fourth overall in 2019, two seasons, 27 points in 67 games at 23.
A second-round pick who played 10 NHL games in the four seasons after his draft and 57 in the fifth. Twenty-three points at 5-8 is a real first season and the skating is the whole of the question.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 666 minutes
- Expected goals
- 48.6%
- 43rd pct
- Shot attempts
- 48%
- 35th 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: 27 for, 22 against. Expected: 25.3 and 26.7.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 13 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 437 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 62 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 · 666 minutes at five-on-five
- Joel Farabee51%
- Morgan Frost29%
- Owen Tippett26%
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
- PHI took 52.6% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 48.6% — 4.0 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third line, 666 minutes at five-on-five — 30th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joel Farabee | 50.1% | 47.1% | 52.5% |
| Travis Sanheim | 46.2% | 50.1% | 54.0% |
| Cam York | 48.0% | 49.0% | 53.3% |
50.1% together, 47.1% for him apart and 52.5% for Farabee apart. He was worse away from Farabee, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Farabee did.
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
110 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 12 of them goals. His median goal came from 13 feet. 47% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 18% from beyond forty.