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Corey Perry

One thousand four hundred and twenty-six career penalty minutes, second in this edition, at 39.

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	TBL	81	12	13	25	-28	95	6	0	3	116	10.3	11:34
2023-24	CHI/EDM	54	12	10	22	-6	46	3	0	2	82	14.6	13:23
2024-25 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	1311	429	476	905	+45	1426	120	6	74	3360	12.8	16:53

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

54 games, 12 goals and 10 assists for 22 points, 3 on the power play, 46 penalty minutes, 13:23 a night and minus-6. He took 50.6 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 615 minutes, the 57th percentile, and his ice went 30-30 against an expectation of 25.41-24.82.

Five goals above expectation on a fourth line, in a season that began in Chicago and ended here. At 39 the legs are gone and the results are not.

The Finesse Game

82 shots at a median of 12 feet with 65 per cent from inside 20, converted at 14.6 per cent. He is still a net-front player and he is still good at it.

476 career assists in 1,311 games. The hands work in a phone box and the head has always been the best part of him. What has gone is the ability to get to the puck first.

The Physical Game

He clears the front of his own net, cross-checks anybody who stands in front of the other one, and takes liberties when the referee is not looking.

1,426 career penalty minutes in 1,311 games is the second-highest total in this edition, six behind Tom Wilson. He is an agitator and has been for twenty years, and at 39 it is most of what he brings.

The Intangibles

Twenty-eighth overall in 2003 out of Peterborough, nineteen seasons, a Hart and a Cup, and 905 points in 1,311 games. He is the fourth-oldest player in this edition.

He has been to the final in four of the last five seasons, each time with a different club, which is either the most remarkable coincidence in hockey or a thing worth having on the roster.

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
71.2% of his attempts in the slot, 98th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.69) · 44% keep it
net-fronta strength· lives in the blue paint; the screens and the tips
“He is still a net-front player and he is still good at it.”
clears-the-creasea strength· moves grown men off the front of his net
“He clears the front of his own net, cross-checks anybody who stands in front of the other one, and takes liberties when the referee is not looking.”
takes-libertiesa strength· crosses the line and knows where it is
“He clears the front of his own net, cross-checks anybody who stands in front of the other one, and takes liberties when the referee is not looking.”
agitatora strength· gets under the skin; draws the retaliation
“He is an agitator and has been for twenty years, and at 39 it is most of what he brings.”
nastya strength· hard to play against; the edge is the point
“1,426 career penalty minutes in 1,311 games is the second-highest total in this edition, six behind Tom Wilson.”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 615 minutes

Expected goals: 50.6%; 58th pct
Shot attempts: 50.2%; 57th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 30 for, 30 against. Expected: 25.4 and 24.8.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

31st

Numbers

58th

The numbers rank him 27 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 652 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 65 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 · 54 games

Top speed: 20.6 mph; 6th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.11 a game
Distance: 1.98 miles a game
Hardest shot: 90.1 mph; 71st 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

2023-24 · 455 minutes at five-on-five

Ryan McLeodnow BUF48%
Evander Kaneoff the roster35%
Dylan Hollowaynow STL23%

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: EDM took 56.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 50.6% — 6.3 below the club he did it on.
The role: Fourth line, 615 minutes at five-on-five — 26th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Ryan McLeod	50.9%	50.4%	58.2%
Darnell Nurse	51.8%	50.1%	54.0%
Cody Ceci	53.4%	49.6%	51.9%

50.9% together, 50.4% for him apart and 58.2% for McLeod apart. McLeod 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

118 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 12 of them goals. His median goal came from 8 feet. 66% of his shots came from inside twenty feet.