Christian Fischer
Detroit Red Wings Right Wing
Five goals in seventy-nine games, forty-five per cent of his shots from inside twenty feet, and eleven minutes a night.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-17 | ARI | 7 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 30.0 | 12:20 |
| 2017-18 | ARI | 79 | 15 | 18 | 33 | -17 | 14 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 154 | 9.7 | 13:54 |
| 2018-19 | ARI | 71 | 11 | 7 | 18 | -13 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 116 | 9.5 | 13:10 |
| 2019-20 | ARI | 56 | 6 | 3 | 9 | +2 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 83 | 7.2 | 11:01 |
| 2020-21 | ARI | 52 | 3 | 8 | 11 | -10 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 47 | 6.4 | 12:45 |
| 2021-22 | ARI | 53 | 5 | 5 | 10 | -15 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 76 | 6.6 | 13:07 |
| 2022-23 | ARI | 80 | 13 | 14 | 27 | -7 | 20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 122 | 10.7 | 14:51 |
| 2023-24 | DET | 79 | 5 | 14 | 19 | 0 | 36 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 86 | 5.8 | 11:24 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 477 | 61 | 69 | 130 | -60 | 133 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 694 | 8.8 | 12:58 |
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
Seventy-nine games, 5 goals and 14 assists with 1 shorthanded, 11:24 a night and exactly even. He converted 5.81 per cent of 86 shots against a career 8.79 across 694.
He took 45.2 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 831 minutes, the 22nd percentile, and his ice went 31-33 against an expectation of 30.14-36.59. An even rating on a club that conceded 274 goals is the best thing on this page.
The Finesse Game
Eighty-six shots at a median of 24 feet with 45 per cent from inside 20, and 5 went in. Sixty-one goals in 477 career games at 8.79 per cent is the level and there is no reason to expect a change at 27.
Sixty-nine career assists. The offensive game is not the reason he is employed.
The Physical Game
He forechecks hard and finishes his checks at 6-2 and 212, and he is first in on the puck on almost every shift. Thirty-six penalty minutes in 79 games is a moderate rate for a man who initiates that much.
He wins the wall against wingers and holds pucks below the goal line for a change. That is the entire job and he does it at eleven minutes a night without complaint.
The Intangibles
A second-round pick in 2015 out of Chicago, seven seasons in Arizona and one in Detroit, and 477 games. A career minus-60 is almost entirely Arizona.
He is 27 and the twelfth forward on a club that missed the playoffs. That is a career and it is an honest one.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 831 minutes
- Expected goals
- 45.2%
- 23rd pct
- Shot attempts
- 42.8%
- 7th 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: 31 for, 33 against. Expected: 30.1 and 36.6.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 3 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 201 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 57 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 · 831 minutes at five-on-five
- Andrew Copp40%
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
- DET took 45.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 45.2% — 0.7 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Second line, 831 minutes at five-on-five — 42nd percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michael Rasmussen | 45.9% | 44.8% | 43.6% |
| Andrew Copp | 47.3% | 44.0% | 44.1% |
| Jeff Petry | 49.3% | 42.7% | 47.4% |
45.9% together, 44.8% for him apart and 43.6% for Rasmussen apart. Splitting them up moved neither man. Whatever is driving the share, it is not this pairing.
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
114 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 5 of them goals. His median goal came from 10 feet. 46% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 22% from beyond forty.