Daniel Sprong

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

63 games between Washington and Seattle, 14 goals and 6 assists at 12:59 a night, even, eight penalty minutes, 153 shots. Forty-sixth overall in 2015 by Pittsburgh, six seasons, 202 games, 70 points.

The Finesse Game

11.22 shots per 60 is the 16th-most of the 393 forwards who played forty games — at 12:59 a night, which is the 23rd percentile of workload. Fifteen forwards in the league fired more often per minute and every one of them played more.

And thirty-six per cent of his attempts came from the slot, the 6th-lowest of the same 393, at a 31-foot median in the 92nd percentile.

A hundred and fifty-three shots produced fourteen goals at 9.2 per cent, the 30th percentile. His shot is 96.8 mph, the 92nd percentile. Hard, constant, and from too far out — that is the whole offensive file in one line.

1.46 even-strength points per 60 is the 30th percentile and ten per cent of his points came on the power play off 1:12 a night.

50.4 per cent of the expected goals and 51.1 per cent of the attempts, out of 58.4 per cent offensive-zone starts — the 88th-highest of the 652 skaters who took two hundred end-zone starts. That is one of the ninety softest chairs in the league.

His ice went 28-23 against an expectation of 33.06-32.57 — five goals short in front and nine and a half fewer against than the model asked.

The Physical Game

3.15 hits per 60 is the 38th percentile and 0.88 blocks the 10th at 6-0 and 195 pounds.

Eight penalty minutes in sixty-three games, and 0.29 penalties taken per 60 is the 10th percentile. He is not involved in anything that does not involve shooting.

The Intangibles

8.4 bursts over twenty miles an hour per 60 is the 80th percentile and 9.92 miles per 60 the 75th, on a 22.7 mph top speed at the 68th.

Nothing about the skating is a problem, which makes the thirty-one-foot median a choice rather than a limitation.

He is 25 with 202 games across six seasons and four organisations, and has never played seventy games. The shot volume, the shot speed and the sprint count are three genuine things. The slot share, the assist total — six in sixty-three games — and the fact that no club has yet given him fourteen minutes a night are the reason he keeps moving.