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Colton White
Anaheim Ducks Defense
Thirty-eight NHL games in five professional seasons, no goals, and the 2nd-softest recorded shot of the 649 skaters the tracking covers.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | NJD | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 | 14:14 |
| 2019-20 | NJD | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.0 | 13:59 |
| 2020-21 | NJD | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0.0 | 14:16 |
| 2021-22 | NJD | 27 | 0 | 4 | 4 | +2 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 0.0 | 13:15 |
| 2022-23 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 38 | 0 | 4 | 4 | -3 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 0.0 | 13:30 |
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
With New Jersey. 0 goals and 4 assists in 27 games — 4 points at 13:15 a night, plus-2, on 18 shots and 8 penalty minutes.
50.1 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 350 minutes. His ice went 17-15 against an expectation of 14.5-14.47, which is as close to nothing happening as 350 minutes gets.
That is genuinely the most that can be said. Three hundred and fifty minutes on a club that finished 28th, in a season split with the American league, is a sample that supports one conclusion: he did not visibly cost New Jersey anything.
The Finesse Game
18 attempts at a median of 47 feet, 63 per cent from beyond 40 and 10 per cent from inside 20, and no goals — none in 38 career games either.
The shot came off his stick at 75.2 mph, the 2nd-softest of the 649 skaters the league’s tracking recorded — only Tyler Benson’s 73.1 is softer. A defenceman’s point shot is measured against men who wind up on it, and his is a pass with a straight face. There is no power play in his future and no goal-scoring in it.
The Physical Game
6-1 and 187, which is light for the job, and there is nothing in the record that suggests he wins pucks by force. He is a positional, low-event defender: the kind of player whose best game is the one nobody remembers.
The tracking is thin at 27 games and reads slow throughout — bottom of the league in top speed and in ground covered. On this few games that is weak evidence and it is the only evidence there is.
The Intangibles
Ninety-seventh overall in 2015 by New Jersey, and 38 NHL games across five professional seasons — the rest of them in Binghamton and Utica.
He is 25 and signed as a free agent this summer by a club with two holes on its blue line and no obvious internal answer to either. That is not a compliment to him so much as a description of Anaheim: the seventh defenceman spot is open because everybody who used to be ahead of him has been traded.
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.
- ordinaryraised, and called ordinary
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.
“His ice went 17-15 against an expectation of 14.5-14.47, which is as close to nothing happening as 350 minutes gets”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2021-22 · 350 minutes
- Expected goals
- 50.1%
- 57th pct
- Shot attempts
- 46%
- 21st 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: 17 for, 15 against. Expected: 14.5 and 14.5.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 55 points above where the report does. 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 — 45 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 · 27 games
- Top speed
- 20.9 mph
- 25th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.19 a game
- Distance
- 1.91 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 75.2 mph
- 5th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.5
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 90.4
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 NJD · 350 minutes at five-on-five
- P.K. Subbanoff the roster22%
- Ryan Graves20%
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
- NJD took 51.4% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 50.1% — 1.3 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- 350 minutes at five-on-five — 11th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dawson Mercer | 42.2% | 53.9% | 50.7% |
| Yegor Sharangovich | 59.3% | 46.7% | 51.0% |
| Tomas Tatar | 36.3% | 55.4% | 52.9% |
42.2% together, 53.9% for him apart and 50.7% for Mercer 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
30 unblocked shots in 2021-22, 0 of them goals. 10% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 63% from beyond forty.