Calvin de Haan
Colorado Avalanche Defense
Twelfth overall in 2009, 632 games later, and 6 per cent of his shots from inside twenty feet.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011-12 | NYI | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.0 | 13:01 |
| 2013-14 | NYI | 51 | 3 | 13 | 16 | -7 | 30 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 71 | 4.2 | 21:01 |
| 2014-15 | NYI | 65 | 1 | 11 | 12 | +3 | 24 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 92 | 1.1 | 19:01 |
| 2015-16 | NYI | 72 | 2 | 14 | 16 | +3 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 102 | 2.0 | 20:38 |
| 2016-17 | NYI | 82 | 5 | 20 | 25 | +15 | 36 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 116 | 4.3 | 19:51 |
| 2017-18 | NYI | 33 | 1 | 11 | 12 | +11 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 44 | 2.3 | 18:45 |
| 2018-19 | CAR | 74 | 1 | 13 | 14 | +1 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 102 | 1.0 | 18:31 |
| 2019-20 | CHI | 29 | 1 | 5 | 6 | +10 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 42 | 2.4 | 19:55 |
| 2020-21 | CHI | 44 | 1 | 9 | 10 | -16 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 58 | 1.7 | 18:37 |
| 2021-22 | CHI | 69 | 4 | 4 | 8 | -21 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 107 | 3.7 | 18:57 |
| 2022-23 | CAR | 53 | 2 | 10 | 12 | +7 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 51 | 3.9 | 13:32 |
| 2023-24 | TBL | 59 | 3 | 7 | 10 | -9 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 56 | 5.4 | 16:38 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 632 | 24 | 117 | 141 | -2 | 237 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 843 | 2.9 | 18:43 |
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
Fifty-nine games in Tampa Bay, 3 goals and 7 assists, 16:38 a night and minus-9. He took 52.8 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 865 minutes, the 74th percentile, and his ice went 30-39 against an expectation of 33.35-29.79.
A good chance share and a bad result, which is the sixth defenceman’s lot. He arrives in Colorado at 33 as insurance rather than as a plan.
The Finesse Game
Twenty-four goals in 632 games at 2.85 per cent is one of the lowest conversion rates any defenceman carries into a season, and 6 per cent of his shots from inside 20 feet with 75 per cent from beyond 40 explains it. He shoots to create a rebound and nothing else.
One hundred and seventeen assists in 632 games. The first pass is quick and correct and there is no second idea behind it.
The Physical Game
He is 6-1 and 192 and defends by closing the gap early rather than by finishing checks. Twenty-two penalty minutes in 59 games is a moderate rate.
He blocks shots and puts himself in front of things, which across twelve seasons has cost him a great deal of health. He does not win the wall against heavy wingers.
The Intangibles
The twelfth pick in 2009 who never became a top-pair defenceman and has instead played 632 games as a reliable third-pair one across five clubs. That is a career and it is not the one anybody projected.
On a blue line built around Makar, Toews and Girard, a man who does the simple thing correctly is the exact sixth defenceman required.
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 blocks shots and puts himself in front of things, which across twelve seasons has cost him a great deal of health.”
“He does not win the wall against heavy wingers.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 865 minutes
- Expected goals
- 52.8%
- 74th pct
- Shot attempts
- 51.4%
- 67th 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: 30 for, 39 against. Expected: 33.4 and 29.8.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 72 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 652 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 53 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 · 59 games
- Top speed
- 20.9 mph
- 17th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.08 a game
- Distance
- 2.21 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 84.5 mph
- 18th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.7
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 90.2
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 with TBL · 865 minutes at five-on-five
- Nick Perbix28%
- Erik Cernak18%
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
- TBL took 50.5% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 52.8% — 2.3 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Second pair, 865 minutes at five-on-five — 45th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Darren Raddysh | 56.4% | 50.3% | 51.3% |
| Nicholas Paul | 55.5% | 51.7% | 48.8% |
| Anthony Cirelli | 51.9% | 53.3% | 52.6% |
56.4% together, 50.3% for him apart and 51.3% for Raddysh 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
89 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 2 of them goals. His median goal came from 67 feet. 6% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 75% from beyond forty.