Corey Schueneman
Montreal Canadiens Defense
Undrafted, twenty-four games at 16:36 on the club that allowed the most goals in the league.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | MTL | 24 | 2 | 4 | 6 | -5 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 6.7 | 16:36 |
| 2022-23 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 24 | 2 | 4 | 6 | -5 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 6.7 | 16:36 |
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
2 goals and 4 assists in twenty-four games at 16:36 a night, minus-5, eight penalty minutes. 5-11 and 204 pounds, at 27, and this was his entire NHL career.
Nobody drafted him and he reached the NHL at 26, which on a last-place club is both an achievement and a description of the club.
The Finesse Game
Three hundred and fifty-seven five-on-five minutes is far below the qualifying lines.
His ice took 42.3 per cent of the five-on-five expected goals. His ice went 10-15 against an expectation of 14.28-19.47 — the chances against were worse than the goals against, so the goaltending saved him four, which is the opposite of most lines in this chapter.
Thirty shots at a 51-foot median with 76 per cent from beyond forty feet. A point shot, at 89.9 mph.
54.1 per cent of his end-zone starts came in the attacking end — he was being protected, on the worst defensive club in hockey, and the share still came out at 42.3.
The Physical Game
Eight penalty minutes in twenty-four games is a low rate. Across 357 minutes there is nothing else the counting stats can support.
The Intangibles
21.1 mph is the 5th percentile of the 568 skaters who played forty games — among the slowest maxima the league recorded — and 2.36 miles a game is the 33rd. He is not quick and works an ordinary amount.
A 5-11 undrafted defenceman getting sixteen minutes a night at 27. On a club with four defencemen leaving, twenty-four games is a foot in the door and nothing more, and the record contains no evidence in either direction. The next hundred games are the report.
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.
“Nobody drafted him and he reached the NHL at 26, which on a last-place club is both an achievement and a description of the club.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2021-22 · 357 minutes
- Expected goals
- 42.3%
- 8th pct
- Shot attempts
- 45.8%
- 20th 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: 10 for, 15 against. Expected: 14.3 and 19.5.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 2 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 — 48 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 · 24 games
- Top speed
- 21.1 mph
- 32nd pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.38 a game
- Distance
- 2.36 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 89.9 mph
- 36th 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 · 357 minutes at five-on-five
- David Savard10%
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
- MTL took 46.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 42.3% — 3.9 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- 357 minutes at five-on-five — 11th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chris Wideman | 45.7% | 39.8% | 48.1% |
| Mike Hoffman | 50.1% | 38.8% | 41.8% |
| Nick Suzuki | 42.5% | 42.2% | 45.8% |
45.7% together, 39.8% for him apart and 48.1% for Wideman apart. He was worse away from Wideman, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Wideman did.
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
46 unblocked shots in 2021-22, 2 of them goals. His median goal came from 50 feet. 7% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 76% from beyond forty.