Colin White

Zero points in 28 games across two clubs, from a man who had 41 at 22.

Season	Team	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	PP	SH	GW	S	S%	TOI

2016-17	OTT	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.0	13:43
2017-18	OTT	21	2	4	6	+1	8	0	0	1	24	8.3	13:21
2018-19	OTT	71	14	27	41	-24	24	5	0	2	123	11.4	16:12
2019-20	OTT	61	7	16	23	-12	39	1	0	0	83	8.4	15:42
2020-21	OTT	45	10	8	18	-6	16	2	0	0	69	14.5	14:41
2021-22	OTT	24	3	7	10	-11	4	2	0	1	47	6.4	15:20
2022-23	FLA	68	8	7	15	0	12	0	0	0	64	12.5	9:38
2023-24	PIT/MTL	28	0	0	0	-5	4	0	0	0	16	0.0	9:32
2024-25 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	320	44	69	113	-57	107	10	0	4	427	10.3	13:39

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

28 games across Pittsburgh and Montreal, no goals and no assists, 4 penalty minutes, 9:32 a night and minus-5. He took 45.8 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 249 minutes, the 25th percentile, and his ice went 4-8 against an expectation of 7.86-9.29.

Four goals of finishing below what the chances were worth across two hundred and fifty minutes. Sixteen shots on goal and no points in 28 games is the season, and there is no way to describe it more kindly.

The Finesse Game

33 attempts at a median of 25 feet with 39 per cent of them from inside twenty, 16 of those on goal, converted at nothing at all, against a career 10.30 per cent across 427 shots.

Forty-four career goals and 69 assists in 320 games, 41 points of it in 2018-19 at 22. He was a genuine second-line centre for one season and has not been close since; the skill has not obviously gone and the production has.

The Physical Game

He is 6-1 and 195 and took 4 penalty minutes.

107 career penalty minutes in 320 games. He is an ordinary-sized centre without much physical dimension to his game; everything depends on making a play with the puck, and at nine and a half minutes a night there are not many chances to make one.

The Intangibles

Twenty-first overall in 2015 by Ottawa, eight seasons, and San Jose will be his fifth organisation.

A career minus-57 in 320 games. He is 27, he had 41 points at 22, and a club that finished last is exactly where a first-round pick goes to find out whether there is anything left.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 249 minutes

Expected goals: 45.8%; 26th pct
Shot attempts: 45.8%; 21st pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 4 for, 8 against. Expected: 7.9 and 9.3.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

35th

Numbers

26th

The two rank him within 9 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 — 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 MTL · 148 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 45.8% — 0.3 below the club he did it on.
The role: 249 minutes at five-on-five — 3rd percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Rafael Harvey-Pinard	33.3%	49.0%	45.0%
Tanner Pearson	50.8%	44.0%	39.4%
Michael Pezzetta	27.9%	49.1%	37.8%

33.3% together, 49.0% for him apart and 45.0% for Harvey-Pinard apart. Both were better apart than together — the pairing was doing neither of them any favours.

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

33 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 0 of them goals. 39% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 24% from beyond forty.