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Cal Foote
Tampa Bay Lightning Defense
The 2nd-percentile takeaway rate and the 3rd-percentile workload, from a first-round pick at 23.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-21 | TBL | 35 | 1 | 2 | 3 | +9 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 2.5 | 12:53 |
| 2021-22 | TBL | 56 | 2 | 7 | 9 | +6 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 49 | 4.1 | 13:08 |
| 2022-23 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 91 | 3 | 9 | 12 | +15 | 58 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 89 | 3.4 | 13:02 |
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
56 games, 2 goals and 7 assists at 13:08 a night, plus-6, twenty-nine penalty minutes, 49 shots. Fourteenth overall in 2017 by Tampa Bay, two seasons, 91 games, 12 points.
The Finesse Game
Thirteen minutes and eight seconds a night is the 3rd percentile among the 202 defencemen who played forty games — the 7th-smallest workload of the 202.
0.33 takeaways per 60 is the 2nd percentile against 1.22 giveaways at the 15th. Almost nothing happens on his stick and what does is more often lost than won.
52.8 per cent of the expected goals is the 74th percentile and 49.8 per cent of the attempts the 49th, out of 52.1 per cent offensive-zone starts, the 262nd-highest of the 652 skaters who took two hundred end-zone starts — a chair a shade on the soft side.
A chance share four points better than the shot share is what a large defenceman standing in front of his own net produces, and it is the best thing here.
4.00 shots per 60 is the 40th percentile at 4.1 per cent, from a 50-foot median with fifteen per cent of his attempts from the slot.
The Physical Game
6.78 hits per 60 is the 82nd percentile among defencemen, at 6-5 and 224 pounds on a 13:08 shift.
4.65 blocks per 60 is the 67th percentile, and 1.06 penalties taken per 60 is the 86th percentile against 0.65 drawn at the 83rd — twenty-nine penalty minutes in fifty-six games.
The Intangibles
21.0 mph is the 9th percentile among defencemen and 0.7 bursts over twenty miles an hour per 60 the 18th, against 8.32 miles per 60 at the 34th.
Slow, almost never at speed, and covering a below-average amount of ground. At 6-5 and 23 years old that is the measurement most likely to decide the career and there is nothing in the record about edges or gap control to set beside it.
His shot is 96.7 mph, the 71st percentile.
He is 23, fourteenth overall in 2017, with twelve points in ninety-one games. The size, the hits, the blocks and a chance share above the shot share are four things a sixth defenceman needs. The takeaway rate, the skating and the penalty ledger are why the ice is thirteen minutes, and a first-round pick at 23 has time to move exactly one of them.
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.
“6.78 hits per 60 is the 82nd percentile among defencemen, at 6-5 and 224 pounds on a 13:08 shift.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2021-22 · 721 minutes
- Expected goals
- 52.8%
- 75th pct
- Shot attempts
- 49.8%
- 53rd 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: 35 for, 28 against. Expected: 32.3 and 28.8.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 37 points above where the report does. 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 649 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, 2021-22 · 56 games
- Top speed
- 21.0 mph
- 29th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.14 a game
- Distance
- 1.82 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 96.7 mph
- 81st pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.5
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 90.4
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 · 721 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
- TBL took 52.5% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 52.8% — 0.3 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third pair, 721 minutes at five-on-five — 35th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mikhail Sergachev | 55.4% | 51.2% | 51.9% |
| Corey Perry | 56.7% | 51.2% | 55.6% |
| Steven Stamkos | 51.0% | 53.6% | 53.0% |
55.4% together, 51.2% for him apart and 51.9% for Sergachev apart. Both were worse apart, so whatever the two of them had together was doing real work.
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
72 unblocked shots in 2021-22, 2 of them goals. His median goal came from 22 feet. 7% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 72% from beyond forty.