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Danton Heinen
Pittsburgh Penguins Left Wing
29 points and a plus-2 on a club that finished minus-44, which made him the only forward here on the right side of it.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-17 | BOS | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0.0 | 13:14 |
| 2017-18 | BOS | 77 | 16 | 31 | 47 | +10 | 16 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 135 | 11.8 | 15:01 |
| 2018-19 | BOS | 77 | 11 | 23 | 34 | +13 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 114 | 9.7 | 13:58 |
| 2019-20 | BOS/ANA | 67 | 10 | 16 | 26 | -2 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 109 | 9.2 | 14:28 |
| 2020-21 | ANA | 43 | 7 | 7 | 14 | -9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 76 | 9.2 | 14:46 |
| 2021-22 | PIT | 76 | 18 | 15 | 33 | +6 | 16 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 138 | 13.0 | 12:43 |
| 2022-23 | PIT | 65 | 8 | 14 | 22 | -5 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 96 | 8.3 | 10:45 |
| 2023-24 | BOS | 74 | 17 | 19 | 36 | +16 | 28 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 119 | 14.3 | 14:28 |
| 2024-25 | VAN/PIT | 79 | 9 | 20 | 29 | +2 | 31 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 81 | 11.1 | 13:27 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 566 | 96 | 145 | 241 | +28 | 131 | 13 | 3 | 14 | 875 | 11.0 | 13:41 |
This Season So Far
The 2025-26 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
9 goals and 20 assists in 79 games across Vancouver and Pittsburgh — 29 points at 13:27 a night, plus-2, with 31 penalty minutes and a shorthanded goal.
47.5 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 27th percentile. His ice went 32-45 against an expectation of 31.57-34.95 — ten goals conceded above expectation on a third line, and a plus-2 collected mostly away from five-on-five.
The Finesse Game
81 attempts at a median of 27 feet with 38 per cent from inside 20, converting at 11.1 per cent. 9 goals is around what he does and he has scored 17 once.
20 assists in 79 games from a third line is respectable. The hands are fine and the reason he keeps getting employed is that he is in the right place: he supports the puck low, he is an outlet on the breakout, and he does not turn it over.
The Physical Game
6-2 and 187 and light. He is not a forechecker in the punishing sense and he does not win a puck by force.
31 penalty minutes in 79 games. He is honest defensively, he blocks shots, and he kills penalties on a unit that finished 13th.
The Intangibles
A fourth-round pick in 2014 out of Denver, and 566 games and 241 points across five organisations in nine seasons.
He is 30 and has been on and off this roster twice. He is a useful third-line winger on a club that needs several of them.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 900 minutes
- Expected goals
- 47.5%
- 28th pct
- Shot attempts
- 49.6%
- 48th 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: 32 for, 45 against. Expected: 31.6 and 35.0.
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 637 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 69 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
2024-25 with VAN · 612 minutes at five-on-five
- Max Sasson15%
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, 2024-25
- The club
- PIT took 49.0% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 47.5% — 1.5 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- 900 minutes at five-on-five — 45th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Teddy Blueger | 46.6% | 47.9% | 45.7% |
| Kiefer Sherwood | 46.8% | 47.7% | 46.3% |
| Carson Soucy | 40.3% | 49.7% | 47.0% |
46.6% together, 47.9% for him apart and 45.7% for Blueger apart. Splitting them up moved neither man. Whatever is driving the share, it is not this pairing.
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
117 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 9 of them goals. His median goal came from 9 feet. 38% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 26% from beyond forty.