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Colton Sissons
Nashville Predators Center
Six hundred and eighteen games, seven career shorthanded goals, and three of them last season.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-14 | NSH | 17 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 7.7 | 10:37 |
| 2015-16 | NSH | 34 | 4 | 2 | 6 | +5 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 16.0 | 9:58 |
| 2016-17 | NSH | 58 | 8 | 2 | 10 | +11 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 42 | 19.1 | 11:07 |
| 2017-18 | NSH | 81 | 9 | 18 | 27 | +2 | 42 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 120 | 7.5 | 16:06 |
| 2018-19 | NSH | 75 | 15 | 15 | 30 | +20 | 23 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 111 | 13.5 | 16:03 |
| 2019-20 | NSH | 57 | 9 | 6 | 15 | -2 | 20 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 52 | 17.3 | 14:20 |
| 2020-21 | NSH | 54 | 8 | 7 | 15 | +2 | 18 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 58 | 13.8 | 14:21 |
| 2021-22 | NSH | 79 | 7 | 21 | 28 | +2 | 30 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 87 | 8.1 | 16:10 |
| 2022-23 | NSH | 82 | 12 | 18 | 30 | -4 | 20 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 87 | 13.8 | 15:50 |
| 2023-24 | NSH | 81 | 15 | 20 | 35 | -6 | 38 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 131 | 11.5 | 16:34 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 618 | 88 | 112 | 200 | +30 | 219 | 6 | 7 | 13 | 726 | 12.1 | 14:51 |
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
81 games, 15 goals and 20 assists for 35 points, 3 on the power play, 3 shorthanded, 38 penalty minutes, 16:34 a night and minus-6. He took 49.9 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 966 minutes, the 52nd percentile, and his ice went 34-37 against an expectation of 40.12-40.27.
Six goals of scoring that did not arrive and three fewer conceded than the chances called for. Three shorthanded goals in a season is a very large number and it is nearly half of his career total.
The Finesse Game
131 shots at a median of 18 feet with 52 per cent from inside 20, converted at 11.5 per cent against a career 12.12.
112 career assists in 618 games. He shoots from close in and there is no distance shot at all. Fifteen goals from a checking centre at sixteen and a half minutes is more than the job requires.
The Physical Game
He is 6-1 and 200 and wins the wall and finishes his checks.
219 career penalty minutes in 618 games is a low rate. He takes the defensive-zone draw, forechecks hard, and kills penalties with 7 career shorthanded goals in 618 games.
The Intangibles
A second-round pick in 2012 out of North Vancouver, ten seasons and 618 games, all of it for one organisation.
He is 30 and has been the third-line centre here for most of a decade. On a club that finished eighth on the penalty kill, three shorthanded goals is his season in one number.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 966 minutes
- Expected goals
- 49.9%
- 52nd pct
- Shot attempts
- 49.1%
- 48th 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: 34 for, 37 against. Expected: 40.1 and 40.3.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 14 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 415 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 69 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 · 966 minutes at five-on-five
- Cole Smith23%
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 49.9% — 2.6 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Second line, 966 minutes at five-on-five — 54th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yakov Trenin | 48.5% | 51.3% | 54.1% |
| Roman Josi | 51.1% | 49.1% | 55.3% |
| Ryan McDonagh | 49.8% | 49.9% | 57.0% |
48.5% together, 51.3% for him apart and 54.1% for Trenin apart. Trenin 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
204 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 15 of them goals. His median goal came from 15 feet. 53% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 14% from beyond forty.