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Chris Kreider

Twenty-six power-play goals — the most in the league — off the smallest power-play workload in it.

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

2012-13	NYR	23	2	1	3	-1	6	0	0	0	19	10.5	10:07
2013-14	NYR	66	17	20	37	+14	72	6	0	0	136	12.5	15:44
2014-15	NYR	80	21	25	46	+24	88	7	0	5	180	11.7	15:43
2015-16	NYR	79	21	22	43	+10	58	5	0	3	158	13.3	15:57
2016-17	NYR	75	28	25	53	+6	58	6	0	4	186	15.0	17:00
2017-18	NYR	58	16	21	37	-2	44	7	0	0	137	11.7	15:37
2018-19	NYR	79	28	24	52	+4	57	7	0	2	201	13.9	17:24
2019-20	NYR	63	24	21	45	+13	58	9	0	5	156	15.4	17:15
2020-21	NYR	50	20	10	30	-1	34	11	0	4	102	19.6	17:24
2021-22	NYR	81	52	25	77	+19	24	26	3	11	258	20.2	18:44
2022-23 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	654	229	194	423	+86	499	84	3	34	1533	14.9	16:32

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

81 games, 52 goals and 25 assists for 77 points at 18:44 a night, plus-19, twenty-four penalty minutes, 258 shots. Nineteenth overall in 2009, ten seasons, 654 games, 423 points.

Fifty-two goals is 3rd in the league and twenty-four more than he had ever scored. Twenty-six of them came on the power play — the most in the league, two clear of Leon Draisaitl and ten clear of everyone else.

The Finesse Game

Sixty-five per cent of his shots came from the slot at a 16-foot median — the 92nd percentile and the 9th-shortest of 393 forwards — and twenty-six of his fifty-two goals came on the power play from that square.

20.2 per cent shooting is the 97th percentile, against a career rate of 14.9 across 1,533 shots. 10.20 shots per 60 is the 90th and 258 shots is the most he has ever taken.

Forty-five per cent of his points came on the power play, the 98th percentile, from 2:58 a night — on a club that took the fewest power-play minutes in the league.

2.02 even-strength points per 60 is the 65th percentile, which is the honest measure of the rest of his game.

1.07 takeaways per 60 is the 13th percentile. He does not win pucks.

52.1 per cent of the expected goals on 49.0 per cent offensive-zone starts — dead level. His ice went 49-41 against an expectation of 45.45-41.85.

He and Mika Zibanejad played 1,726 attempts together and took 53.1 per cent of them. Neither was on the ice without the other for as much as 240 attempts all season.

The Physical Game

5.58 hits per 60 is the 67th percentile and 1.54 blocks the 43rd at 6-3 and 232 pounds.

0.28 penalties drawn per 60 is the 4th percentile. For a man who stands in the crease for a living that is the least expected number in the file, and twenty-four penalty minutes in eighty-one games is the other half of it.

The Intangibles

11.2 bursts over 20 mph per 60 is the 92nd percentile and 23.2 mph the 89th, at 6-3 and 232 pounds. 9.01 miles per 60 is the 8th percentile — he sprints constantly and covers almost no ground, which is what a straight-line power forward looks like on a chip.

He is 31 with 229 career goals and had never scored thirty. Twenty-six power-play goals is the number to distrust and the slot share is the reason it happened at all. The shooting percentage is five points above ten years of evidence; the place he takes his shots from is not.

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.

slot-man· shoots from where goals are scored
65.1% of his attempts in the slot, 93rd percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.69) · 44% keep it
durable· was available
81 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
drives-play· the shot clock turns his way while he is out there
52.1% of the expected goals at five-on-five with him on, 44.7% for his club in the minutes he sat: +7.4, 95th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats moderately (0.39) · 29% keep it
net-fronta strength· lives in the blue paint; the screens and the tips
“Sixty-five per cent of his shots came from the slot at a 16-foot median — the 92nd percentile and the 9th-shortest of 393 forwards — and twenty-six of his fifty-two goals came on the power play from that square.”
transitiona strength· carries it out; gains the line under control
“11.2 bursts over 20 mph per 60 is the 92nd percentile and 23.2 mph the 89th, at 6-3 and 232 pounds.”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2021-22 · 1,099 minutes

Expected goals: 52.1%; 71st pct
Shot attempts: 50.4%; 59th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 49 for, 41 against. Expected: 45.5 and 41.9.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

81st

Numbers

71st

The two rank him within 10 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 649 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 68 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 · 81 games

Top speed: 23.2 mph; 93rd pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 3.51 a game
Distance: 2.81 miles a game
Hardest shot: 90.1 mph; 68th 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

2021-22 · 1099 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: NYR took 46.7% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 52.1% — 5.4 above the club he did it on.
The role: Second line, 1,099 minutes at five-on-five — 76th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Mika Zibanejad	53.1%	39.3%	23.4%
Adam Fox	57.1%	48.6%	47.9%
Jacob Trouba	49.8%	53.8%	46.8%

53.1% together, 39.3% for him apart and 23.4% for Zibanejad 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

344 unblocked shots in 2021-22, 53 of them goals. His median goal came from 10 feet. 56% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 16% from beyond forty.