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Brayden Schenn

Ninety career power-play goals in 940 games, and a minus-22 last season.

Season	Team	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	PP	SH	GW	S	S%	TOI

2009-10	LAK	1	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0	—	12:31
2010-11	LAK	8	0	2	2	-1	0	0	0	0	11	0.0	11:15
2011-12	PHI	54	12	6	18	-7	34	4	0	3	97	12.4	14:07
2012-13	PHI	47	8	18	26	-8	24	2	0	0	79	10.1	15:32
2013-14	PHI	82	20	21	41	0	54	4	0	6	178	11.2	15:45
2014-15	PHI	82	18	29	47	-5	34	7	0	6	156	11.5	17:05
2015-16	PHI	80	26	33	59	+3	33	11	0	5	178	14.6	16:54
2016-17	PHI	79	25	30	55	-13	38	17	0	7	178	14.0	17:48
2017-18	STL	82	28	42	70	+10	56	8	0	8	210	13.3	19:44
2018-19	STL	72	17	37	54	+3	40	4	0	5	159	10.7	18:35
2019-20	STL	71	25	33	58	+3	44	10	0	4	138	18.1	18:28
2020-21	STL	56	16	20	36	-2	35	6	0	2	113	14.2	19:09
2021-22	STL	62	24	34	58	+21	33	7	0	3	111	21.6	17:47
2022-23	STL	82	21	44	65	-27	50	6	0	3	144	14.6	18:26
2023-24	STL	82	20	26	46	-22	56	4	1	3	170	11.8	17:47
2024-25 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	940	260	375	635	-46	531	90	1	55	1922	13.5	17:30

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

82 games, 20 goals and 26 assists for 46 points, 4 on the power play, 1 shorthanded, 56 penalty minutes, 17:47 a night and minus-22, with 3 game-winners. He took 43.6 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,102 minutes, the 22nd percentile, and his ice went 46-53 against an expectation of 41.00-52.97.

Five goals of finishing above what the chances were worth and level at the other end. The minus-22 is the worst figure on the club and it came on the second-lowest chance share of any regular forward here.

The Finesse Game

264 attempts at a median of 29 feet with 34 per cent of them from inside twenty, 174 of those on goal, converted at 11.8 per cent against a career 13.53 across 1,922 shots.

260 career goals and 375 assists in 940 games, and 90 of the goals on the power play. He works from the top of the crease outward and gets to the net-front spot on the power play faster than a 33-year-old centre should; 55 career game-winners is the return.

The Physical Game

He is 6-1 and 200 and took 56 penalty minutes.

531 career penalty minutes in 940 games. He is the most physical forward on this roster — he cross-checks in front, finishes every check available and fights when the club needs it — and fifteen seasons of that is why he wears the letter.

The Intangibles

Fifth overall in 2009 by Los Angeles, fifteen seasons, three organisations, and 635 points in 940 games.

A career minus-46 across fifteen seasons. He is 33, he has scored twenty or more in nine different seasons, and the club has asked him to do the hardest job on it for seven years.

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

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.

clutch· scored his goals when the game was still live
4 of his 20 goals late or in overtime, 91st percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure barely repeats (0.06) · 10% keep it
durable· was available
82 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
net-fronta strength· lives in the blue paint; the screens and the tips
“He works from the top of the crease outward and gets to the net-front spot on the power play faster than a 33-year-old centre should; 55 career game-winners is the return.”
punishinga strength· finishes checks; hurts people legally
“He is the most physical forward on this roster — he cross-checks in front, finishes every check available and fights when the club needs it — and fifteen seasons of that is why he wears the letter.”
leadershipa strength· the room, and who holds it
“He is 33, he has scored twenty or more in nine different seasons, and the club has asked him to do the hardest job on it for seven years.”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 1,102 minutes

Expected goals: 43.6%; 13th pct
Shot attempts: 43.6%; 11th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 46 for, 53 against. Expected: 41.0 and 53.0.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

90th

Numbers

13th

The report ranks him 77 points above where the numbers do. 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 652 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 79 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: 22.0 mph; 41st pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 1.45 a game
Distance: 2.85 miles a game
Hardest shot: 88.5 mph; 61st pct

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 · 1102 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, 2023-24

The club: STL took 44.8% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 43.6% — 1.2 below the club he did it on.
The role: Second line, 1,102 minutes at five-on-five — 72nd percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Brandon Saad	45.9%	42.0%	44.0%
Jake Neighbours	41.2%	45.3%	44.2%
Colton Parayko	39.4%	46.4%	46.3%

45.9% together, 42.0% for him apart and 44.0% for Saad apart. He was worse away from Saad, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Saad 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

264 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 23 of them goals. His median goal came from 19 feet. 34% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 21% from beyond forty.