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Christian Dvorak
Montreal Canadiens Center
Thirty games, a career minus-55, and 452 games of being somebody's third centre.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-17 | ARI | 78 | 15 | 18 | 33 | +7 | 22 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 88 | 17.1 | 15:37 |
| 2017-18 | ARI | 78 | 15 | 22 | 37 | -19 | 22 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 151 | 9.9 | 16:26 |
| 2018-19 | ARI | 20 | 2 | 5 | 7 | -2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 25 | 8.0 | 14:23 |
| 2019-20 | ARI | 70 | 18 | 20 | 38 | +6 | 12 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 134 | 13.4 | 16:42 |
| 2020-21 | ARI | 56 | 17 | 14 | 31 | -11 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 95 | 17.9 | 18:24 |
| 2021-22 | MTL | 56 | 11 | 22 | 33 | -19 | 24 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 87 | 12.6 | 17:22 |
| 2022-23 | MTL | 64 | 10 | 18 | 28 | -12 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 88 | 11.4 | 16:52 |
| 2023-24 | MTL | 30 | 5 | 4 | 9 | -5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 14.3 | 15:32 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 452 | 93 | 123 | 216 | -55 | 104 | 21 | 2 | 12 | 703 | 13.2 | 16:36 |
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
30 games, 5 goals and 4 assists for 9 points, 1 on the power play, 4 penalty minutes, 15:32 a night and minus-5. He took 43.1 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 387 minutes, the 11th percentile, and his ice went 12-15 against an expectation of 14.07-18.58.
Two goals of scoring that did not arrive and four fewer conceded than the chances called for. Thirty games is the third season in a row he has not come close to finishing.
The Finesse Game
45 attempts at a median of 21 feet with 44 per cent from inside 20, converted at 14.3 per cent against a career 13.23.
123 career assists in 452 games. He is a distributor and the numbers say the hands are intact; the problem has never been skill. He reads a play a beat before it happens and cannot get to the ice that would let him use it.
The Physical Game
He is 6-1 and 190 and defends with position and stick.
4 penalty minutes in 30 games is almost nothing. He takes the defensive-zone draw, blocks shots, and kills penalties with 2 career shorthanded goals.
The Intangibles
A second-round pick in 2014 out of Palos, Illinois, eight seasons across two organisations, and 216 points in 452 games at a career minus-55.
He is 28 and has played 56, 64 and 30 games in the last three seasons. A third centre who cannot stay in the lineup on a club that needs three of them.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 387 minutes
- Expected goals
- 43.1%
- 11th pct
- Shot attempts
- 42.9%
- 8th 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: 12 for, 15 against. Expected: 14.1 and 18.6.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe report ranks him 26 points above where the numbers do. 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 415 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 63 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.
Usual linemates
2023-24 · 387 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, 2023-24
- The club
- MTL took 46.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 43.1% — 3.0 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- 387 minutes at five-on-five — 12th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Juraj Slafkovsky | 48.2% | 40.2% | 48.8% |
| Brendan Gallagher | 49.2% | 39.1% | 50.4% |
| Mike Matheson | 43.1% | 43.1% | 44.6% |
48.2% together, 40.2% for him apart and 48.8% for Slafkovsky apart. He was worse away from Slafkovsky, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Slafkovsky did.
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
45 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 5 of them goals. His median goal came from 23 feet. 44% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 18% from beyond forty.