Brock McGinn
Anaheim Ducks Left Wing
Five hundred and eight games of honest fourth-line work, and twenty-four of them last season.
| 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 | PIT/ANA | 75 | 12 | 7 | 19 | -6 | 21 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 91 | 13.2 | 13:02 |
| 2023-24 | ANA | 24 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 4.2 | 11:05 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 508 | 76 | 74 | 150 | -42 | 120 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 746 | 10.2 | 13:36 |
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
1 goal and 2 assists in 24 games — 3 points at 11:05 a night, minus-5, on 24 shots with 4 penalty minutes. Injury and a healthy scratch took the rest of it.
43.9 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 238 minutes, the 15th percentile. His ice went 6-11 against an expectation of 7.32-9.36.
The Finesse Game
24 attempts at a median of 26 feet, with 46 per cent from inside 20 and 11 per cent from beyond 40. He shoots from close range and there is not much of a shot behind it — 76 goals in 508 career games.
2 assists. He is not a creator and never has been; what he does is arrive first and put the puck behind the defence.
The Physical Game
6-0 and 191. He forechecks first and hard and he finishes his checks, which is the reason he has had a nine-year career on four clubs without ever scoring twenty.
4 penalty minutes in 24 games and 120 in 508 for his career — a genuinely low rate for a forechecking winger. He does not retaliate.
The Intangibles
Forty-seventh overall in 2012 by Carolina, and 508 games and 150 points, most of it as a third-line penalty killer.
He is 30 and played twenty-four games. He scored the goal that won a double-overtime game seven for Carolina in 2019, and the rest of the career is exactly the sort that gets no attention at all — a bottom-six forward who is trusted a man short and takes no penalties.
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
- 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.
“**He forechecks first and hard and he finishes his checks**, which is the reason he has had a nine-year career on four clubs without ever scoring twenty.”
“**He forechecks first and hard and he finishes his checks**, which is the reason he has had a nine-year career on four clubs without ever scoring twenty.”
“He is 30 and played twenty-four games. **He scored the goal that won a double-overtime game seven for Carolina in 2019**, and the rest of the career is exactly the sort that gets no attention at all — a bottom-six forward who is trusted a man short and takes no penalties.”
“4 penalty minutes in 24 games and 120 in 508 for his career — a genuinely low rate for a forechecking winger. He does not retaliate.”
“2 assists. He is not a creator and never has been; **what he does is arrive first and put the puck behind the defence.**”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 238 minutes
- Expected goals
- 43.9%
- 15th pct
- Shot attempts
- 43.2%
- 9th 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: 6 for, 11 against. Expected: 7.3 and 9.4.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 4 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 — 58 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 · 24 games
- Top speed
- 23.4 mph
- 95th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 2.25 a game
- Distance
- 1.85 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 86.5 mph
- 48th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.1
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 84.5
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 · 238 minutes at five-on-five
- Brett Leason29%
- Bo Groulxoff the roster21%
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
- ANA took 45.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 43.9% — 2.0 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- 238 minutes at five-on-five — 3rd percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sam Carrick | 43.1% | 44.7% | 44.7% |
| Cam Fowler | 40.5% | 46.1% | 44.9% |
| Jackson LaCombe | 46.7% | 42.1% | 45.0% |
43.1% together, 44.7% for him apart and 44.7% for Carrick 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
35 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 1 of them goals. His median goal came from 11 feet. 46% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 11% from beyond forty.