Brad Hunt
Colorado Avalanche Defense
Five foot nine, a 98.6 mph shot at the 84th percentile, and a 20.7 mph top speed at the 4th.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-14 | EDM | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 | 12:36 |
| 2014-15 | EDM | 11 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 5.0 | 19:29 |
| 2015-16 | EDM | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0.0 | 14:11 |
| 2016-17 | STL/NSH | 12 | 1 | 5 | 6 | -1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 7.1 | 14:30 |
| 2017-18 | VGK | 45 | 3 | 15 | 18 | -5 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 80 | 3.8 | 16:39 |
| 2018-19 | VGK/MIN | 42 | 5 | 7 | 12 | -2 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 75 | 6.7 | 14:53 |
| 2019-20 | MIN | 59 | 8 | 11 | 19 | -7 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 106 | 7.5 | 15:08 |
| 2020-21 | MIN | 12 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -8 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 7.1 | 12:20 |
| 2021-22 | VAN | 50 | 3 | 14 | 17 | -3 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 67 | 4.5 | 15:15 |
| 2022-23 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 241 | 22 | 54 | 76 | -36 | 40 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 389 | 5.7 | 15:22 |
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
3 goals and 14 assists in 50 games for Vancouver — 17 points at 15:15 a night, minus-3, with 12 penalty minutes. He signed here in the summer.
50.0 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 717 minutes, the 51st percentile among defencemen. His ice went 30-32 against an expectation of 30.5-30.46.
15:15 a night is the 8th percentile in ice time among defencemen. He is a seventh defenceman who dressed fifty times.
The Finesse Game
1.28 even-strength points per 60 is the 84th percentile among defencemen and 5.27 shots per 60 is the 71st — genuinely productive for the minutes.
His top shot speed was 98.6 mph, the 84th percentile among defencemen, from a median of 53 feet with 5 per cent from the slot, the 3rd percentile. He is a power-play point man with a heavy shot and nothing else, and 11 of his 22 career goals have come on the man advantage.
The Physical Game
5-9 and 177, which is small even by the standards of the men above him on this depth chart. 1.73 hits per 60 is the 9th percentile among defencemen and 3.78 blocks is the 38th.
20.7 mph is the 4th percentile among defencemen and 0.4 bursts over 20 mph per 60 is the 6th. This is the part that matters and it is not close: a 5-9 defenceman who cannot skate has no way to survive a forecheck.
The Intangibles
Undrafted out of Bemidji State, and 241 NHL games at 34 across six clubs with a career minus-36.
Colorado has lost Jack Johnson and Ryan Murray from the bottom of its blue line and needs a seventh defenceman who can take a power-play shift when somebody is hurt. That is the job and he has done it in six cities.
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.
- ordinaryraised, and called ordinary
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.
“Undrafted out of Bemidji State, and 241 NHL games at 34 across six clubs with a career minus-36.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2021-22 · 717 minutes
- Expected goals
- 50%
- 56th pct
- Shot attempts
- 49.7%
- 52nd 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: 30 for, 32 against. Expected: 30.5 and 30.5.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 47 points above where the report does. 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 649 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 50 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 · 50 games
- Top speed
- 20.7 mph
- 20th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.10 a game
- Distance
- 2.16 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 98.6 mph
- 89th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.5
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 90.4
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 with VAN · 717 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, 2021-22
- The club
- VAN took 49.0% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 50.0% — 1.0 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third pair, 717 minutes at five-on-five — 34th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elias Pettersson | 49.5% | 50.3% | 49.5% |
| Conor Garland | 56.7% | 47.5% | 53.9% |
| Vasily Podkolzin | 46.2% | 51.4% | 49.6% |
49.5% together, 50.3% for him apart and 49.5% for Pettersson 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
88 unblocked shots in 2021-22, 3 of them goals. His median goal came from 36 feet. 3% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 76% from beyond forty.