Daniel Sprong
Vancouver Canucks Right Wing
Forty-three points in twelve minutes a night, on the second-lowest chance share of any forward on the club.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-16 | PIT | 18 | 2 | 0 | 2 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 8.7 | 8:44 |
| 2017-18 | PIT | 8 | 2 | 1 | 3 | +2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 22 | 9.1 | 13:59 |
| 2018-19 | PIT/ANA | 63 | 14 | 9 | 23 | -16 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 125 | 11.2 | 11:58 |
| 2019-20 | ANA | 8 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 5.9 | 14:06 |
| 2020-21 | WSH | 42 | 13 | 7 | 20 | +7 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 74 | 17.6 | 11:40 |
| 2021-22 | WSH/SEA | 63 | 14 | 6 | 20 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 153 | 9.2 | 12:59 |
| 2022-23 | SEA | 66 | 21 | 25 | 46 | +13 | 14 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 147 | 14.3 | 11:25 |
| 2023-24 | DET | 76 | 18 | 25 | 43 | -5 | 22 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 160 | 11.3 | 12:00 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 344 | 85 | 74 | 159 | -2 | 66 | 14 | 0 | 11 | 721 | 11.8 | 11:57 |
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
76 games with Detroit, 18 goals and 25 assists for 43 points, 3 on the power play, 22 penalty minutes, 12:00 a night and minus-5, with 1 game-winner. He took 44.9 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 787 minutes, the 21st percentile, and his ice went 37-41 against an expectation of 30.24-37.14.
Seven goals of finishing above what the chances were worth and four more conceded than they called for. Forty-four point nine per cent is the second-lowest chance share of any forward on this roster and 43 points in twelve minutes a night is the second-highest total of his career.
The Finesse Game
227 attempts at a median of 33 feet with 19 per cent of them from inside twenty and 30 per cent from beyond forty, 156 of those on goal, converted at 11.3 per cent against a career 11.79 across 721 shots.
Eighty-five career goals and 14 power-play goals in 344 games. The shot is a genuine one and he will take it from anywhere — a thirty-three-foot median attempt in twelve minutes a night is enormous volume for the ice — and only a fifth of his attempts came from inside twenty feet.
The Physical Game
He is 6-0 and 195 and took 22 penalty minutes.
Sixty-six career penalty minutes in 344 games. He is a normal size and plays no physical game at all; the puck is not retrieved, it is received, and eight seasons of clubs deciding he is worth the trade-off have ended the same way.
The Intangibles
Forty-sixth overall in 2015 by Pittsburgh, eight seasons, and Vancouver will be his sixth organisation.
A career minus-2 and 11 game-winners in 344 games. He was born in Amsterdam, he was a second-round pick, and he has scored 46 and 43 points in the last two seasons for two different clubs that both let him go.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 787 minutes
- Expected goals
- 44.9%
- 21st pct
- Shot attempts
- 46.2%
- 23rd 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: 37 for, 41 against. Expected: 30.2 and 37.1.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe report ranks him 41 points above where the numbers do. 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 — 72 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.
Usual linemates
2023-24 with DET · 787 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, 2023-24
- The club
- DET took 45.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 44.9% — 1.0 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Fourth line, 787 minutes at five-on-five — 37th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shayne Gostisbehere | 42.5% | 46.5% | 48.7% |
| Robby Fabbri | 43.5% | 45.6% | 41.8% |
| Olli Määttä | 45.4% | 44.6% | 51.9% |
42.5% together, 46.5% for him apart and 48.7% for Gostisbehere 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
227 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 18 of them goals. His median goal came from 20 feet. 19% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 30% from beyond forty.