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David Pastrnak

A hundred and ten points and 382 shots, and the release from the top of the right circle is the most identifiable skill on this club.

Season	Team	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	PP	SH	GW	S	S%	TOI

2014-15	BOS	46	10	17	27	+12	8	2	0	3	93	10.8	13:58
2015-16	BOS	51	15	11	26	+3	20	0	0	2	108	13.9	13:57
2016-17	BOS	75	34	36	70	+11	34	10	0	6	262	13.0	17:59
2017-18	BOS	82	35	45	80	+10	37	13	0	5	246	14.2	17:58
2018-19	BOS	66	38	43	81	+6	32	17	0	4	235	16.2	18:45
2019-20	BOS	70	48	47	95	+21	40	20	0	10	279	17.2	18:58
2020-21	BOS	48	20	28	48	+10	24	6	0	3	176	11.4	18:37
2021-22	BOS	72	40	37	77	+13	20	15	0	9	312	12.8	18:36
2022-23	BOS	82	61	52	113	+34	38	18	0	13	407	15.0	19:34
2023-24	BOS	82	47	63	110	+21	47	12	0	5	382	12.3	19:56
2024-25 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	674	348	379	727	+141	300	113	0	60	2500	13.9	18:07

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

47 goals and 63 assists in 82 games — 110 points at 19:56 a night, plus-21, with 12 power-play goals and 5 game-winners on 382 shots, converting at 12.3 per cent, and 47 penalty minutes.

Three hundred and eighty-two attempts is 175 more than any other player on this roster took.

51.7 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,231 minutes, the 66th percentile. His ice went 44-34 against an expectation of 55.43-51.88 — eleven goals of scoring missing at five-on-five, on a club that finished 13.5 goals above expectation overall.

The Finesse Game

382 attempts at a median of 32 feet, with 26 per cent from inside 20 and 27 per cent from beyond 40, converting at 12.3 per cent.

He sets up at the top of the right circle and the release is the most identifiable skill on this club. It leaves before the puck has settled and before a goaltender has finished setting, and a penalty kill that knows exactly where it is coming from does not stop it — 12 power-play goals and 113 for his career.

63 assists is the half people forget. He holds the puck a half-second past where a defenceman expects and the seam opens because of the delay. 727 points in 674 games.

The Physical Game

6-0 and 199. He does not play a physical game at all — he does not forecheck with force, he does not win pucks on the wall against a defenceman, and the whole of the offence happens in open ice.

47 penalty minutes in 82 games and 300 in 674 for his career. He does not retaliate and he is not an agitator.

The Intangibles

Twenty-fifth overall in 2014, out of Havířov, and 674 games, 348 goals and 727 points, all of them here, with a Stanley Cup final and a career plus-141.

He is 28. In the first season without Bergeron and Krejčí he scored 110 points and the club finished sixth in the league, and there is no version of this roster that works without him doing it again.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 1,231 minutes

Expected goals: 51.7%; 66th pct
Shot attempts: 50.4%; 58th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 44 for, 34 against. Expected: 55.4 and 51.9.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

94th

Numbers

66th

The report ranks him 28 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 41 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 79 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 · 1231 minutes at five-on-five

Pavel Zacha63%
Brad Marchand32%
Danton Heinennow VAN20%

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: BOS took 49.7% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 51.7% — 2.0 above the club he did it on.
The role: First line, 1,231 minutes at five-on-five — 85th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Pavel Zacha	51.7%	51.6%	40.9%
Charlie McAvoy	55.1%	48.7%	49.7%
Hampus Lindholm	50.2%	52.4%	52.9%

51.7% together, 51.6% for him apart and 40.9% for Zacha apart. Zacha was worse away from him while his own share held — the pairing was doing more for Zacha 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

529 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 48 of them goals. His median goal came from 23 feet. 26% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 27% from beyond forty.