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Brock McGinn
Pittsburgh Penguins Left Wing
The 25th-most blocks of 393 forwards and the 30th-heaviest penalty-killing load, on the 20th-percentile attempt share.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-16 | CAR | 21 | 3 | 1 | 4 | -14 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 12.0 | 11:11 |
| 2016-17 | CAR | 57 | 7 | 9 | 16 | -11 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 74 | 9.5 | 12:00 |
| 2017-18 | CAR | 80 | 16 | 14 | 30 | -12 | 22 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 159 | 10.1 | 14:30 |
| 2018-19 | CAR | 82 | 10 | 16 | 26 | +10 | 20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 123 | 8.1 | 14:19 |
| 2019-20 | CAR | 68 | 7 | 10 | 17 | -4 | 17 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 93 | 7.5 | 13:12 |
| 2020-21 | CAR | 37 | 8 | 5 | 13 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 58 | 13.8 | 14:59 |
| 2021-22 | PIT | 64 | 12 | 10 | 22 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 99 | 12.1 | 15:00 |
| 2022-23 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 409 | 63 | 65 | 128 | -31 | 95 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 631 | 10.0 | 13:51 |
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
64 games, 12 goals and 10 assists at 15:00 a night, even, fourteen penalty minutes, 99 shots. Forty-seventh overall in 2012 by Carolina, seven seasons, 409 games, 128 points.
The Finesse Game
1.59 even-strength points per 60 is the 38th percentile and none of his points came on the power play: one second a night, the 2nd percentile. He is a five-on-five and penalty-killing forward and nothing else.
6.19 shots per 60 is the 30th percentile at 12.1 per cent, from a 24-foot median with fifty per cent from the slot. Twelve goals from ninety-nine shots is the second-best goal total of his career.
1.13 takeaways per 60 is the 16th percentile against 1.19 giveaways at the 28th — very little happens in either direction.
49.3 per cent of the expected goals and 46.4 per cent of the attempts, the 20th percentile, out of 35.6 per cent offensive-zone starts — the 48th-lowest of the 652 skaters who took two hundred end-zone starts.
He and Teddy Blueger between them absorbed almost all of the hard starts on this roster, and the three-point gap between his chance share and his attempt share is what that assignment produces when it is done well.
The Physical Game
3.13 blocks per 60 is the 25th-most of the 393 forwards who played forty games, at 6-0 and 191 pounds.
5.88 hits per 60 is the 70th percentile. 0.63 penalties drawn per 60 against 0.44 taken, and fourteen penalty minutes came out of sixty-four games — a genuinely disciplined season for a man in this much traffic.
The Intangibles
2:01 short-handed a night is the 30th-most of the 393 forwards who played forty games.
23.0 mph is the 80th percentile, 7.6 bursts per 60 the 73rd, 9.96 miles per 60 the 78th. Three skating measurements in the upper quarter — he is the quickest of Pittsburgh’s checking forwards by some way.
He is 28 with 409 NHL games and has never had a season above thirty points. The blocks, the kill, the chair and the skating are the job. The attempt share, the scoring rate and the absence of any power-play role are the ceiling, and both halves have been stable for seven seasons.
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.
- hard-minutes· is started in his own end, against the other club's best
36% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 9th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
“2:01 short-handed a night is the 30th-most of the 393 forwards who played forty games.”
“3.13 blocks per 60 is the 25th-most of the 393 forwards who played forty games, at 6-0 and 191 pounds.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2021-22 · 842 minutes
- Expected goals
- 49.3%
- 50th pct
- Shot attempts
- 46.4%
- 25th 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: 26 for, 29 against. Expected: 30.1 and 30.9.
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 649 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 63 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 · 64 games
- Top speed
- 23.0 mph
- 87th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.91 a game
- Distance
- 2.49 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 89.1 mph
- 59th 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 84.1
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 · 842 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
- PIT took 53.5% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 49.3% — 4.2 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Fourth line, 842 minutes at five-on-five — 45th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Teddy Blueger | 48.9% | 49.9% | 52.2% |
| John Marino | 53.1% | 46.9% | 51.3% |
| Zach Aston-Reese | 49.3% | 49.4% | 48.5% |
48.9% together, 49.9% for him apart and 52.2% for Blueger apart. Blueger 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
127 unblocked shots in 2021-22, 11 of them goals. His median goal came from 14 feet. 39% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 13% from beyond forty.