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Carson Soucy
Vancouver Canucks Defense
A top speed in the second percentile, and sixty-two shots from the point without a goal.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-18 | MIN | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0.0 | 14:51 |
| 2019-20 | MIN | 55 | 7 | 7 | 14 | +16 | 18 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 61 | 11.5 | 15:38 |
| 2020-21 | MIN | 50 | 1 | 16 | 17 | +22 | 51 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 47 | 2.1 | 15:17 |
| 2021-22 | SEA | 64 | 10 | 11 | 21 | +7 | 47 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 97 | 10.3 | 17:40 |
| 2022-23 | SEA | 78 | 3 | 13 | 16 | +18 | 68 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 87 | 3.5 | 16:18 |
| 2023-24 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 250 | 21 | 47 | 68 | +61 | 186 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 296 | 7.1 | 16:17 |
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
3 goals and 13 assists in 78 games — 16 points — at 16:18 a night for Seattle. Plus-18, 87 shots at 3.4 per cent, 68 penalty minutes.
51.1 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five across 1,127 minutes, the 54th percentile, with his ice at 52-37 against an expectation of 44.18-42.25 — eight more goals for and five fewer against than the chances called for, which is where the plus-18 comes from rather than from anything he did.
He started 54.8 per cent of his shifts in the attacking zone, the 71st percentile: 323 attacking draws against 266 defensive ones. Sheltered third-pair minutes on a good club.
The Finesse Game
87 shots at a median of 52 feet, with 75 per cent of his attempts from beyond forty and 5 per cent from inside twenty.
Beyond forty feet: 62 shots on goal and no goals. From twenty to forty: 19 shots and two goals, 10.53 per cent, above the league rate for defencemen of 8.83. Inside twenty: four shots and one goal.
Sixty-two shots on goal from the point and nothing at all, on a 22.3 per cent slap share and a shot measured at 94.2 mph, the 73rd percentile.
21 goals in 250 career games at 7.1 per cent is a better rate than that suggests, and ten of them came in 2021-22 on 97 shots — which is the season that got him this contract.
130 tracked attempts, 77 of them wrist shots. There is nothing in the offensive half of the file to build on.
The Physical Game
6-4 and 211 pounds, with 68 penalty minutes in 78 games and 186 in 250 career games.
A top speed of 20.8 mph — the 2nd percentile — and 0.2 bursts above twenty miles an hour a game, the 5th. He covers 2.39 miles a game, the 36th.
That is one of the slowest measured skaters in this edition, and it is the fact the file is built around. Sixteen minutes a night is the ceiling those feet allow.
He clears the front of his net and he is very hard to move out of it, which at 6-4 is the trade the club is making.
He is punishing along the wall, and 68 penalty minutes in a third-pair role is a high rate.
He is beaten wide by anybody quick and he knows it, so he plays inside-out and gives up the outside lane on purpose.
The Intangibles
A hundred and thirty-seventh overall in 2013, the fifth round, five seasons, 250 games, 68 points across Minnesota and Seattle.
21 goals and 47 assists, and a plus-61 in 250 games — a rate nothing else in his record explains.
He is twenty-nine, signed by a club that finished twenty-fourth in chance share to play its second pair, having played third-pair minutes on a club that finished eleventh.
That is the whole risk in one sentence. A 54th-percentile chance share out of sheltered starts behind a good team is not evidence that he can take harder minutes behind a worse one, and the second-percentile top speed says what happens if he is asked to.
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.
- durable· was available
78 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
“He clears the front of his net and he is very hard to move out of it, which at 6-4 is the trade the club is making.”
“He is punishing along the wall, and 68 penalty minutes in a third-pair role is a high rate.”
“He is beaten wide by anybody quick and he knows it, so he plays inside-out and gives up the outside lane on purpose.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2022-23 · 1,127 minutes
- Expected goals
- 51.1%
- 60th pct
- Shot attempts
- 51.8%
- 69th 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: 52 for, 37 against. Expected: 44.2 and 42.3.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 31 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 · 78 games
- Top speed
- 20.8 mph
- 24th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.21 a game
- Distance
- 2.39 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 94.2 mph
- 64th 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 90.0
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 with SEA · 1127 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
- SEA took 52.3% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 51.1% — 1.2 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third pair, 1,127 minutes at five-on-five — 76th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Will Borgen | 47.9% | 53.5% | 51.7% |
| Justin Schultz | 48.6% | 52.6% | 50.6% |
| Yanni Gourde | 51.7% | 50.8% | 54.1% |
47.9% together, 53.5% for him apart and 51.7% for Borgen apart. Both were better apart than together — the pairing was doing neither of them any favours.
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
128 unblocked shots in 2022-23, 3 of them goals. His median goal came from 26 feet. 6% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 75% from beyond forty.