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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.
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.
- slot-man· shoots from where goals are scored
67.2% of his attempts in the slot, 94th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.69) · 44% keep it
- durable· was available
81 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
- hard-minutes· is started in his own end, against the other club's best
37% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 7th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
“He is 6-1 and 200 and wins the wall and finishes his checks.”
“He takes the defensive-zone draw, forechecks hard, and kills penalties with 7 career shorthanded goals in 618 games.”
“He takes the defensive-zone draw, forechecks hard, and kills penalties with 7 career shorthanded goals in 618 games.”
“He takes the defensive-zone draw, forechecks hard, and kills penalties with 7 career shorthanded goals in 618 games.”
“He shoots from close in and there is no distance shot at all.”
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 5 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 — 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.
Tracked
NHL Edge, 2023-24 · 81 games
- Top speed
- 22.3 mph
- 57th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.07 a game
- Distance
- 2.63 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 90.1 mph
- 72nd pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.1
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 84.5
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 · 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.