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Casey Cizikas
New York Islanders Center
Eight hundred and fifteen games, eleven career shorthanded goals, and thirteen seasons for one club.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011-12 | NYI | 15 | 0 | 4 | 4 | +1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0.0 | 10:36 |
| 2012-13 | NYI | 45 | 6 | 9 | 15 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 45 | 13.3 | 10:47 |
| 2013-14 | NYI | 80 | 6 | 10 | 16 | -12 | 30 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 79 | 7.6 | 13:22 |
| 2014-15 | NYI | 70 | 9 | 9 | 18 | -2 | 24 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 90 | 10.0 | 12:31 |
| 2015-16 | NYI | 80 | 8 | 21 | 29 | +4 | 31 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 84 | 9.5 | 12:41 |
| 2016-17 | NYI | 59 | 8 | 17 | 25 | +9 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 82 | 9.8 | 13:54 |
| 2017-18 | NYI | 64 | 7 | 10 | 17 | -12 | 23 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 74 | 9.5 | 13:13 |
| 2018-19 | NYI | 73 | 20 | 13 | 33 | +22 | 36 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 111 | 18.0 | 14:01 |
| 2019-20 | NYI | 48 | 10 | 4 | 14 | +12 | 41 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 67 | 14.9 | 14:18 |
| 2020-21 | NYI | 56 | 7 | 7 | 14 | -2 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 72 | 9.7 | 13:50 |
| 2021-22 | NYI | 74 | 10 | 6 | 16 | -3 | 48 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 91 | 11.0 | 13:45 |
| 2022-23 | NYI | 81 | 6 | 15 | 21 | 0 | 54 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 111 | 5.4 | 14:32 |
| 2023-24 | NYI | 70 | 10 | 13 | 23 | -2 | 22 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 82 | 12.2 | 13:56 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 815 | 107 | 138 | 245 | +15 | 386 | 1 | 11 | 20 | 1000 | 10.7 | 13:24 |
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
70 games, 10 goals and 13 assists for 23 points, 1 shorthanded, 22 penalty minutes, 13:56 a night and minus-2. He took 46.9 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 814 minutes, the 31st percentile, and his ice went 28-29 against an expectation of 27.84-31.51.
Level at one end and three fewer conceded than the chances called for at the other. Ten goals from a fourth-line centre at 33 is more than the job asks for.
The Finesse Game
109 attempts at a median of 18 feet with 56 per cent from inside 20, 82 on goal, converted at 12.2 per cent against a career 10.70.
138 career assists in 815 games. He shoots from close in and there is no distance shot at all. Ten goals in a season is the fourth time he has managed double figures.
The Physical Game
He hits everything at 5-11 and 191 and has done for thirteen years.
386 career penalty minutes in 815 games is a moderate rate. He forechecks aggressively, wins the wall against men fifty pounds heavier, takes the defensive-zone draw and kills penalties with 11 career shorthanded goals.
The Intangibles
A fourth-round pick in 2009 out of Toronto, thirteen seasons, 815 games and 245 points, all of it for one organisation.
He is 33 and has played the same twelve minutes a night since 2013. A fourth line that stays together for a decade is the most Islanders thing there is, and it has been genuinely good for most of it.
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
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.
- hard-minutes· is started in his own end, against the other club's best
31% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 3rd percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
“He hits everything at 5-11 and 191 and has done for thirteen years.”
“He forechecks aggressively, wins the wall against men fifty pounds heavier, takes the defensive-zone draw and kills penalties with 11 career shorthanded goals.”
“He forechecks aggressively, wins the wall against men fifty pounds heavier, takes the defensive-zone draw and kills penalties with 11 career shorthanded goals.”
“He forechecks aggressively, wins the wall against men fifty pounds heavier, takes the defensive-zone draw and kills penalties with 11 career shorthanded goals.”
“He forechecks aggressively, wins the wall against men fifty pounds heavier, takes the defensive-zone draw and kills penalties with 11 career shorthanded goals.”
“He shoots from close in and there is no distance shot at all.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 814 minutes
- Expected goals
- 46.9%
- 32nd pct
- Shot attempts
- 43.6%
- 11th 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: 28 for, 29 against. Expected: 27.8 and 31.5.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 19 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 — 70 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 · 70 games
- Top speed
- 22.8 mph
- 80th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 2.20 a game
- Distance
- 2.34 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 86.2 mph
- 46th 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 · 814 minutes at five-on-five
- Cal Clutterbuckoff the roster50%
- Matt Martin22%
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
- NYI took 49.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 46.9% — 2.2 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third line, 814 minutes at five-on-five — 40th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cal Clutterbuck | 44.4% | 49.3% | 44.6% |
| Alexander Romanov | 47.7% | 46.4% | 48.8% |
| Noah Dobson | 47.4% | 46.7% | 50.1% |
44.4% together, 49.3% for him apart and 44.6% for Clutterbuck apart. He was better away from Clutterbuck, who was no worse away from him — the pairing cost him more than it cost Clutterbuck.
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
109 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 10 of them goals. His median goal came from 11 feet. 56% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 17% from beyond forty.