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Colin Blackwell
Chicago Blackhawks Center
Five foot eight, 7.89 hits per 60 at the 81st percentile, and 0.26 penalties taken at the 7th.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | NSH | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0.0 | 9:44 |
| 2019-20 | NSH | 27 | 3 | 7 | 10 | +7 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 9.7 | 10:57 |
| 2020-21 | NYR | 47 | 12 | 10 | 22 | +2 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 64 | 18.8 | 14:00 |
| 2021-22 | SEA/TOR | 58 | 10 | 10 | 20 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 77 | 13.0 | 11:56 |
| 2022-23 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 138 | 25 | 27 | 52 | +8 | 41 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 177 | 14.1 | 12:21 |
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
10 goals and 10 assists in 58 games for Seattle and Toronto — 20 points at 11:56 a night, even, with 14 penalty minutes. He signed here in July.
47.2 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 614 minutes, the 28th percentile among forwards. His ice went 21-24 against an expectation of 19.67-21.97.
11:56 a night is the 12th percentile in ice time. Ten goals from that is the number worth holding onto.
The Finesse Game
6.67 shots per 60 is the 38th percentile among forwards at 13.0 per cent, the 67th. Ten goals on 77 attempts from a median of 28 feet.
1.75 even-strength points per 60 is the 47th percentile and none of his points came on the power play. Everything he produced came at even strength on twelve minutes a night.
The Physical Game
5-8 and 181. 7.89 hits per 60 is the 81st percentile among forwards, which from the smallest forward on the roster is the whole of what makes him employable.
0.26 penalties taken per 60 is the 7th percentile — 14 penalty minutes in 58 games — with a drawn-minus-taken of plus-0.43 at the 82nd. He plays hard and does not foul.
8.2 bursts over 20 mph per 60 is the 78th percentile against a top speed of 22.1 mph at the 28th. He is quick rather than fast.
The Intangibles
One hundred and ninety-fourth overall in 2011 by San Jose, seventh round, and 138 NHL games at 29 with 52 points.
Four clubs in two seasons, and a career that did not produce an NHL point until he was 26. Chicago has traded four of its top six forwards, and the fourth line here is the most stable part of the roster by default.
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.
- perimeter· shoots from the outside, by choice or because he cannot get in
29.7% of his attempts from 40 feet or beyond, 91st percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
“7.89 hits per 60 is the 81st percentile among forwards”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2021-22 · 614 minutes
- Expected goals
- 47.2%
- 33rd pct
- Shot attempts
- 49.9%
- 55th 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: 21 for, 24 against. Expected: 19.7 and 22.0.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe report ranks him 30 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 649 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.
Tracked
NHL Edge, 2021-22 · 58 games
- Top speed
- 22.1 mph
- 47th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.64 a game
- Distance
- 1.98 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 88.7 mph
- 59th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.0
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 84.1
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 with SEA · 431 minutes at five-on-five
- Yanni Gourde52%
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
- TOR took 54.8% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 47.2% — 7.6 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- 614 minutes at five-on-five — 26th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yanni Gourde | 47.7% | 47.0% | 50.0% |
| Mark Giordano | 56.5% | 43.5% | 53.4% |
| Adam Larsson | 47.0% | 47.3% | 46.0% |
47.7% together, 47.0% for him apart and 50.0% for Gourde 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
91 unblocked shots in 2021-22, 10 of them goals. His median goal came from 10 feet. 38% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 30% from beyond forty.