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Brandon Duhaime
Minnesota Wild Right Wing
Nine goals and one assist, and three of the nine were game-winners.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | MIN | 80 | 6 | 11 | 17 | -2 | 122 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 91 | 6.6 | 10:13 |
| 2022-23 | MIN | 51 | 9 | 1 | 10 | +6 | 42 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 80 | 11.3 | 10:45 |
| 2023-24 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 131 | 15 | 12 | 27 | +4 | 164 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 171 | 8.8 | 10:25 |
This Season So Far
The 2023-24 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
9 goals and 1 assist in 51 games — 10 points — with three game-winners and 42 penalty minutes. Plus-6, 10:45 a night, 80 shots at 11.3 per cent.
Nine goals and one assist is one of the most lopsided splits in this book. He is on the ice for ten minutes and he shoots.
51.0 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 59th percentile, with his ice at 18-12 against an expectation of 20.33-19.53 across 499 minutes — seven goals better at the defensive end than the chances, which on 499 minutes is noise.
Two seasons, 131 games, 27 points.
The Finesse Game
80 shots at a median of 21 feet, 47 per cent from inside twenty and 17 per cent from beyond forty.
Beyond forty: 12 shots on goal and no goals. Inside forty: 65 shots, 9 goals, 13.85 per cent.
Eighty shots from under eleven minutes a night is a high rate and 13.85 per cent from inside forty is a good one. The shot selection is close to ideal for the role: he goes to the net and shoots from there.
86.7 mph at the 20th percentile, on two slap shots.
The Physical Game
6-2 and 210, and 42 penalty minutes in 51 games — after 122 in 80 games the season before.
Top speed 22.8 mph, the 78th percentile; bursts 1.5 a game, the 74th; 1.68 miles a game, the 3rd — ten minutes a night, and the distance is the ice time.
He forechecks at speed and finishes his checks, and the 78th-percentile top speed on a fourth-line workload is a genuinely quick reading rather than an artefact of ice time — a tracked maximum tends to rise with shifts taken, and he did not have many.
40.8 per cent of his five-on-five shifts started in the attacking zone, the 14th percentile, which is one of the harder shares among Minnesota forwards — though Khaira, Dewar and Shaw all got worse.
The Intangibles
One hundred and sixth overall in 2016 out of Providence, three American-league seasons, and 131 NHL games since.
He is twenty-six, plays ten minutes, scores nine goals and takes a hundred penalty minutes when he plays eighty games. That is a fourth line and a useful one.
One assist in fifty-one games is the number that keeps him there.
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.
- a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed
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.
“He forechecks at speed and finishes his checks, and the 78th-percentile top speed on a fourth-line workload is a genuinely quick reading rather than an artefact of ice time — a tracked maximum tends to rise with shifts taken, and he did not have many.”
“The shot selection is close to ideal for the role: he goes to the net and shoots from there.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2022-23 · 499 minutes
- Expected goals
- 51%
- 60th pct
- Shot attempts
- 47.2%
- 31st 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: 18 for, 12 against. Expected: 20.3 and 19.5.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 17 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 638 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 64 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, 2022-23 · 51 games
- Top speed
- 22.8 mph
- 82nd pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.53 a game
- Distance
- 1.68 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 86.7 mph
- 46th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.0
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 84.9
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
2022-23 · 499 minutes at five-on-five
- Connor Dewar33%
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, 2022-23
- The club
- MIN took 50.0% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 51.0% — 1.0 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- 499 minutes at five-on-five — 15th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Matt Dumba | 51.9% | 50.4% | 49.0% |
| Jake Middleton | 52.5% | 50.4% | 47.3% |
| Frederick Gaudreau | 45.5% | 54.1% | 49.0% |
51.9% together, 50.4% for him apart and 49.0% for Dumba 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
112 unblocked shots in 2022-23, 9 of them goals. His median goal came from 10 feet. 47% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 17% from beyond forty.