Armchair Hockey Scout Beta

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Cody Glass

Pittsburgh Penguins Center

Sixth overall in 2017 and 187 games in five seasons, with the third-lowest chance share on the club.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2019-20VGK395712-76101519.813:22
2020-21VGK274610+684002814.314:32
2021-22NSH80110000090.011:25
2022-23NSH72142135+92060213110.714:46
2023-24NSH416713-920001827.313:26
2024-25 so far
Career187294271-15411043019.614:00

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

41 games with Nashville, 6 goals and 7 assists for 13 points, none on the power play, 20 penalty minutes, 13:26 a night and minus-9, with 1 game-winner. He took 42.4 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 443 minutes, the 9th percentile, and his ice went 14-23 against an expectation of 16.68-22.65.

Three goals of finishing below what the chances were worth, and the chances were poor to begin with. Forty-two per cent of the chances over 443 minutes is the third-lowest figure on the club, and his ice was outscored 14-23 inside them.

The Finesse Game

105 attempts at a median of 21 feet with 50 per cent of them from inside twenty, 81 of those on goal, converted at 7.3 per cent against a career 9.63 across 301 shots.

Eleven of his 29 career goals have come on the power play. He takes half his attempts from inside twenty feet and still shoots below ten per cent, which is the whole problem: he gets to the right places and does not finish from them.

The Physical Game

He is 6-3 and 201 and took 20 penalty minutes.

Fifty-four career penalty minutes in 187 games. He is a large centre who does not play large — he protects a puck well enough on the cycle but does not initiate contact, and the frame has never turned into a net-front game.

The Intangibles

Sixth overall in 2017 by Vegas, five seasons, three organisations, and 71 points in 187 games.

One hundred and eighty-seven games in five seasons from a top-ten pick. He is 25 and on his third club, and the 35-point season in Nashville two years ago is still the best case anybody can make for him.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 443 minutes

Expected goals
42.4%
10th pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
47.5%
31st pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 14 for, 23 against. Expected: 16.7 and 22.6.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight
Report
44th
Numbers
10th

The report ranks him 34 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 518 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 66 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 with NSH · 443 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
NSH took 52.5% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 42.4% — 10.1 below the club he did it on.
The role
443 minutes at five-on-five — 15th percentile in ice time.

With and without

TeammateTogetherHim apartMate apart
Roman Josi43.8%41.5%55.7%
Colton Sissons38.8%44.0%51.8%
Ryan McDonagh40.3%43.5%57.3%

43.8% together, 41.5% for him apart and 55.7% for Josi apart. Josi was better away from him while his own share held, which is a mark against him more than for him.

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

105 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 5 of them goals. His median goal came from 15 feet. 50% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 22% from beyond forty.