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Braden Schneider
New York Rangers Defense
All 82 games at 23 on a first-place club, and nine goals of goaltending against him.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | NYR | 43 | 2 | 9 | 11 | +5 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 8.0 | 15:29 |
| 2022-23 | NYR | 81 | 5 | 13 | 18 | +9 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 79 | 6.3 | 15:43 |
| 2023-24 | NYR | 82 | 5 | 14 | 19 | -1 | 16 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 95 | 5.3 | 15:54 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 206 | 12 | 36 | 48 | +13 | 41 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 199 | 6.0 | 15:44 |
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
All 82 games, 5 goals and 14 assists for 19 points, 1 shorthanded, 16 penalty minutes, 15:54 a night and minus-1. He took 49.2 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,202 minutes, the 46th percentile, and his ice went 54-61 against an expectation of 50.05-51.67.
Four goals of finishing above what the chances were worth and nine more conceded than they called for — the largest goaltending loss on the club. An even chance share that produced a minus-7 at five-on-five, and none of it his.
The Finesse Game
129 attempts at a median of 50 feet with 69 per cent from beyond 40, 95 on goal, converted at 5.3 per cent against a career 6.03.
36 career assists in 206 games. There is very little puck-moving and no power play. He gets it off the wall quickly and accurately and does not try to do more than that.
The Physical Game
He hits hard at 6-3 and 206 and finishes every check.
41 career penalty minutes in 206 games is a very low rate for a man who initiates this much, which is the most impressive thing about him. He clears the crease, blocks shots, and kills penalties.
The Intangibles
Nineteenth overall in 2020 out of Prince Albert, three seasons, and 48 points in 206 games at a career plus-13, all of it for one organisation.
He is 23 and played all eighty-two games on the third pair of a club that finished first. Forty-one penalty minutes in two hundred and six games from a defenceman who hits like this is the number to keep.
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.
- disciplined· stays out of the box
0.20 penalty minutes a game over 82, 7th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.75) · 35% keep it
- durable· was available
82 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
“He hits hard at 6-3 and 206 and finishes every check.”
“He clears the crease, blocks shots, and kills penalties.”
“He clears the crease, blocks shots, and kills penalties.”
“He clears the crease, blocks shots, and kills penalties.”
“There is very little puck-moving and no power play.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 1,202 minutes
- Expected goals
- 49.2%
- 47th pct
- Shot attempts
- 49.2%
- 49th 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: 54 for, 61 against. Expected: 50.0 and 51.7.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 0 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 652 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 69 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 · 82 games
- Top speed
- 23.5 mph
- 98th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.65 a game
- Distance
- 2.23 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 89.3 mph
- 36th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.7
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 90.2
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 · 1202 minutes at five-on-five
- Zac Jones17%
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
- NYR took 50.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 49.2% — 0.9 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third pair, 1,202 minutes at five-on-five — 83rd percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Erik Gustafsson | 50.5% | 48.0% | 56.2% |
| Vincent Trocheck | 54.6% | 46.5% | 55.1% |
| Artemi Panarin | 55.1% | 46.3% | 57.8% |
50.5% together, 48.0% for him apart and 56.2% for Gustafsson apart. Gustafsson was better away from him while his own share held, which is a mark against him more than for him.
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
129 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 5 of them goals. His median goal came from 16 feet. 9% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 69% from beyond forty.