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Cam York

Eighteen assists in fifty-four games, and the 6th percentile of measured top speed at twenty-two.

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

2020-21	PHI	3	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	1	0.0	19:47
2021-22	PHI	30	3	7	10	-14	6	1	0	0	33	9.1	19:05
2022-23	PHI	54	2	18	20	-1	18	0	0	0	42	4.8	19:39
2023-24 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	87	5	25	30	-16	24	1	0	0	76	6.6	19:28

This Season So Far

The 2023-24 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

2 goals and 18 assists in 54 games — 20 points — at 19:39 a night. Minus-1, 42 shots, eighteen penalty minutes.

52 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 67th percentile and the highest of any Flyers defenceman, with his ice at 38-38 against an expectation of 38.9-35.91 across 916 minutes.

He started 51.4 per cent of his shifts in the attacking zone, the 54th percentile — genuinely neutral deployment, and the best chance share on the blue line out of it.

Three seasons, 87 games, 30 points.

The Finesse Game

42 shots at a median of 44 feet, and two goals.

Beyond forty: 24 shots on goal and none. From twenty to forty: 10 shots and 1 goal. Inside twenty: seven shots and one goal.

Forty-two shots in fifty-four games is a defenceman who does not shoot and does not pretend to.

58 wrist shots out of 78 tracked attempts and ten slap shots — a 13 per cent share, one of the lowest on any blue line in this batch. 91.1 mph at the 51st percentile.

Eighteen assists in fifty-four games, and 25 in 87 career games. Everything here is the pass: he takes the puck under pressure, turns away from it, and moves it early rather than hard.

The Physical Game

6-0 and 194, with eighteen penalty minutes.

Top speed 21.2 mph, the 6th percentile; 0.4 bursts a game, the 18th. 2.85 miles a game, the 71st.

Bottom tenth of the league in outright speed and above the league in ground covered, at twenty-two — which is the Adam Fox shape and it is worth saying so, because a defenceman who cannot skate fast and covers a great deal of ice is doing it on reads.

He defends with his stick and his position, closes gaps by anticipating rather than by chasing, and takes almost no penalties.

At 194 pounds he does not clear his crease and is moved off the front of his own net. The club pairs him accordingly.

The Intangibles

Fourteenth overall in 2019, three years at Michigan, and 87 NHL games across three seasons.

Thirty points, of which 25 are assists, and a better share of the chances than any other Flyers defenceman managed.

He is twenty-two. The measurements say the skating is at the bottom of the league and the results are at the top of this club, which is the same combination Adam Fox has turned into a Norris Trophy — and the same one that has left Erik Brannstrom in Ottawa on sixteen minutes a night. The file cannot yet say which.

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
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.

slot-man· shoots from where goals are scored
27.3% of his attempts in the slot, 98th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.69) · 44% keep it
drives-play· the shot clock turns his way while he is out there
52.0% of the expected goals at five-on-five with him on, 45.8% for his club in the minutes he sat: +6.2, 96th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats moderately (0.39) · 29% keep it
playmakera strength· passes up the shot a scorer takes
“Everything here is the pass: he takes the puck under pressure, turns away from it, and moves it early rather than hard.”
defends-with-reacha strength· takes the puck before the contact happens
“He defends with his stick and his position, closes gaps by anticipating rather than by chasing, and takes almost no penalties.”
clears-the-creasehe lacks it· moves grown men off the front of his net
“At 194 pounds he does not clear his crease and is moved off the front of his own net.”
edgeshe lacks it· changes direction at speed; the forechecker commits and he is gone
“Bottom tenth of the league in outright speed and above the league in ground covered, at twenty-two — which is the Adam Fox shape and it is worth saying so, because a defenceman who cannot skate fast and covers a great deal of ice is doing it on reads.”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2022-23 · 916 minutes

Expected goals: 52%; 67th pct
Shot attempts: 48.6%; 42nd pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 38 for, 38 against. Expected: 38.9 and 35.9.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

29th

Numbers

67th

The numbers rank him 38 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 638 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 61 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, 2022-23 · 54 games

Top speed: 21.2 mph; 34th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.39 a game
Distance: 2.85 miles a game
Hardest shot: 91.1 mph; 46th 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

2022-23 · 916 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, 2022-23

The club: PHI took 47.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 52.0% — 4.8 above the club he did it on.
The role: Second pair, 916 minutes at five-on-five — 50th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Ivan Provorov	49.6%	55.8%	43.7%
Owen Tippett	51.7%	52.1%	48.6%
Morgan Frost	50.3%	52.8%	47.2%

49.6% together, 55.8% for him apart and 43.7% for Provorov apart. He was carrying it: the share stayed with him and left Provorov behind.

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

77 unblocked shots in 2022-23, 2 of them goals. His median goal came from 26 feet. 21% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 58% from beyond forty.