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Corey Perry

The 3rd-shortest median shot and the 5th-highest slot share of all 393 forwards, at 37.

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

2005-06	ANA	56	13	12	25	+1	50	4	0	2	98	13.3	11:34
2006-07	ANA	82	17	27	44	+12	55	4	0	3	194	8.8	12:28
2007-08	ANA	70	29	25	54	+12	108	11	0	4	200	14.5	17:57
2008-09	ANA	78	32	40	72	+10	109	10	0	8	283	11.3	18:36
2009-10	ANA	82	27	49	76	0	111	6	1	2	270	10.0	21:04
2010-11	ANA	82	50	48	98	+9	104	14	4	11	290	17.2	22:19
2011-12	ANA	80	37	23	60	-7	127	14	1	6	277	13.4	21:23
2012-13	ANA	44	15	21	36	+10	72	5	0	5	128	11.7	19:04
2013-14	ANA	81	43	39	82	+32	65	8	0	9	280	15.4	19:29
2014-15	ANA	67	33	22	55	+13	67	4	0	3	193	17.1	18:06
2015-16	ANA	82	34	28	62	+2	68	12	0	6	215	15.8	17:42
2016-17	ANA	82	19	34	53	+2	76	5	0	3	215	8.8	17:43
2017-18	ANA	71	17	32	49	-4	71	4	0	1	168	10.1	17:47
2018-19	ANA	31	6	4	10	-16	27	2	0	1	59	10.2	14:49
2019-20	DAL	57	5	16	21	-2	70	1	0	0	77	6.5	13:43
2020-21	MTL	49	9	12	21	-4	39	1	0	1	62	14.5	13:44
2021-22	TBL	82	19	21	40	+9	66	6	0	4	153	12.4	13:31
2022-23 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	1176	405	453	858	+79	1285	111	6	69	3162	12.8	17:24

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

82 games, 19 goals and 21 assists at 13:31 a night, plus-9, sixty-six penalty minutes, 153 shots. Six of the nineteen came on the power play. Twenty-eighth overall in 2003 by Anaheim, seventeen seasons, 1,176 games, 858 points.

The Finesse Game

Seventy-three per cent of his attempts came from the slot at a 14.3-foot median — the 5th-highest share and the 3rd-shortest distance of all 393 forwards.

Only Julien Gauthier and Paul Stastny shot from closer in the entire league, and neither scored nineteen goals.

8.28 shots per 60 is the 66th percentile at 12.4 per cent, off a 13:31 shift at the 29th percentile. Nineteen goals from a fourth-line workload, all of them from the paint.

55.9 per cent of the expected goals is the 86th percentile, out of 44.4 per cent offensive-zone starts, the 162nd-lowest of the 652 skaters who took two hundred end-zone starts — a hard chair, and the best chance share of any Tampa forward.

His ice went 37-25 against an expectation of 42.76-33.73 — nearly six short in front and nine fewer against.

The Physical Game

1.68 penalties drawn per 60 is the 95th percentile among forwards against 1.41 taken at the 89th, and sixty-six penalty minutes came out of a 13:31 shift.

That is the file in one line. He is among the twenty most-fouled forwards in the league and among the forty who foul most, and the net is still plus-0.27.

6-3 and 210 pounds, and 3.95 hits per 60 at the 51st percentile.

The Intangibles

22.0 mph is the 24th percentile, 2.2 bursts over twenty miles an hour per 60 the 11th, and 9.13 miles per 60 the 13th.

All three in the bottom quarter of the league at 37, and he played all eighty-two games.

His shot is 95.8 mph, the 88th percentile — the velocity has not gone anywhere and the legs have.

He is 37, in a seventeenth season, and this is his third club in three years. The net front, the calls he draws and eighty-two games at 37 are the case, and it is a better one than the point total. What the file cannot tell you is how much longer a man who gets his goals from fourteen feet can keep standing there.

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
72.8% of his attempts in the slot, 99th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.69) · 44% keep it
clutch· scored his goals when the game was still live
5 of his 19 goals late or in overtime, 99th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure barely repeats (0.06) · 10% keep it
durable· was available
82 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
net-fronta strength· lives in the blue paint; the screens and the tips
“Seventy-three per cent of his attempts came from the slot at a 14.3-foot median — the 5th-highest share and the 3rd-shortest distance of all 393 forwards.”
agitatora strength· gets under the skin; draws the retaliation
“1.68 penalties drawn per 60 is the 95th percentile among forwards against 1.41 taken at the 89th, and sixty-six penalty minutes came out of a 13:31 shift.”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2021-22 · 964 minutes

Expected goals: 55.9%; 89th pct
Shot attempts: 50.8%; 63rd pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 37 for, 25 against. Expected: 42.8 and 33.7.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

81st

Numbers

89th

The two rank him within 8 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 649 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 68 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 · 82 games

Top speed: 22.0 mph; 44th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.49 a game
Distance: 2.06 miles a game
Hardest shot: 95.8 mph; 93rd pct

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 · 964 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, 2021-22

The club: TBL took 52.5% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 55.9% — 3.4 above the club he did it on.
The role: Second line, 964 minutes at five-on-five — 57th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Pat Maroon	56.5%	53.8%	40.6%
Pierre-Edouard Bellemare	55.0%	57.4%	49.0%
Mikhail Sergachev	57.8%	54.6%	50.8%

56.5% together, 53.8% for him apart and 40.6% for Maroon apart. Maroon was worse away from him while his own share held — the pairing was doing more for Maroon 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

206 unblocked shots in 2021-22, 19 of them goals. His median goal came from 9 feet. 63% of his shots came from inside twenty feet.