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| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-16 | BOS | 42 | 3 | 13 | 16 | 0 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 59 | 5.1 | 15:48 |
| 2016-17 | BOS | 61 | 6 | 7 | 13 | 0 | 55 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 85 | 7.1 | 15:49 |
| 2017-18 | VGK | 82 | 10 | 31 | 41 | -4 | 53 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 177 | 5.7 | 19:21 |
| 2018-19 | VGK | 65 | 3 | 26 | 29 | 0 | 44 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 131 | 2.3 | 19:39 |
| 2019-20 | BUF | 51 | 1 | 10 | 11 | -9 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 79 | 1.3 | 17:08 |
| 2020-21 | BUF | 48 | 4 | 8 | 12 | -20 | 27 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 64 | 6.3 | 18:00 |
| 2021-22 | BUF | 38 | 2 | 12 | 14 | -2 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 48 | 4.2 | 18:59 |
| 2022-23 | DAL | 79 | 6 | 15 | 21 | +23 | 37 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 106 | 5.7 | 16:46 |
| 2023-24 | NJD/WPG | 46 | 4 | 5 | 9 | +8 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 69 | 5.8 | 15:42 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 512 | 39 | 127 | 166 | -4 | 324 | 9 | 0 | 6 | 818 | 4.8 | 17:35 |
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
46 games, 4 goals and 5 assists for 9 points, 26 penalty minutes, 15:42 a night and plus-8. He took 51.6 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 660 minutes, the 64th percentile, and his ice went 32-20 against an expectation of 29.82-27.98.
Two goals of finishing above what the chances were worth and eight goals of goaltending above them. Fifty-four point seven per cent of the attempts is the highest share of any defenceman on the club.
The Finesse Game
97 attempts at a median of 56 feet with 88 per cent of them from beyond forty and not one from inside twenty, 68 of those on goal, converted at 5.8 per cent against a career 4.77 across 818 shots.
127 career assists and 39 goals in 512 games. Not one of his 97 attempts came from inside twenty feet and 88 per cent came from beyond forty, which is the second-most perimeter-bound chart on this club; the shot from the point is heavy and it is the only shot he takes.
The Physical Game
He is 6-1 and 200 and took 26 penalty minutes.
324 career penalty minutes in 512 games. He is an ordinary size and defends with an active stick rather than with weight; there is not much crease-clearing in his game and the penalties come from reaching.
The Intangibles
One hundred and fifty-first overall in 2012 by Los Angeles, nine seasons, and Winnipeg is his fifth organisation.
A career minus-4 and 166 points in 512 games. He was a fifth-round pick by a club he never played a game for, had 41 points in Vegas six seasons ago, and has been a third-pairing defenceman ever since.
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
- he lacks itraised, and he does not have it
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
87.6% of his attempts from 40 feet or beyond, 99th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
- sheltered· is started in the attacking end
62% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 96th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 47% keep it
“Not one of his 97 attempts came from inside twenty feet and 88 per cent came from beyond forty, which is the second-most perimeter-bound chart on this club; the shot from the point is heavy and it is the only shot he takes.”
“He is an ordinary size and defends with an active stick rather than with weight; there is not much crease-clearing in his game and the penalties come from reaching.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 660 minutes
- Expected goals
- 51.6%
- 65th pct
- Shot attempts
- 54.7%
- 88th 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: 32 for, 20 against. Expected: 29.8 and 28.0.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 11 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 652 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 75 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, 2023-24 · 46 games
- Top speed
- 22.2 mph
- 71st pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.57 a game
- Distance
- 2.30 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 102.6 mph
- 100th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.7
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 90.2
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
2023-24 with NJD · 598 minutes at five-on-five
- Luke Hughes48%
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
- WPG took 52.0% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 51.6% — 0.4 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- 660 minutes at five-on-five — 29th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Luke Hughes | 52.9% | 50.5% | 51.7% |
| Tyler Toffoli | 51.4% | 51.7% | 52.8% |
| Jesper Bratt | 63.2% | 46.6% | 55.3% |
52.9% together, 50.5% for him apart and 51.7% for Hughes 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
97 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 4 of them goals. His median goal came from 60 feet. 0% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 88% from beyond forty.