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Devin Shore

Forty-nine games at nine and a half minutes, and a career minus-62.

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

2015-16	DAL	3	0	0	0	+2	0	0	0	0	1	0.0	12:07
2016-17	DAL	82	13	20	33	-4	14	1	0	0	115	11.3	14:08
2017-18	DAL	82	11	21	32	-30	14	2	1	1	123	8.9	15:26
2018-19	DAL/ANA	76	10	19	29	-12	13	2	2	4	82	12.2	14:16
2019-20	ANA/CBJ	45	5	7	12	-10	8	0	0	1	50	10.0	11:38
2020-21	EDM	38	5	4	9	-4	6	0	1	1	27	18.5	10:55
2021-22	EDM	49	5	6	11	-4	10	0	1	0	36	13.9	9:34
2022-23 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	375	49	77	126	-62	65	5	5	7	434	11.3	13:12

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

5 goals and 6 assists in 49 games — 11 points, a minus-4 and 10 penalty minutes at 9:34 a night.

Forty-nine games but only 413 minutes at five-on-five is short of the 500 this book requires for a peer group, so the figures below are raw. 48.5 per cent of the expected goals across those minutes. His ice went 15-19 against an expectation of 15.45-16.43.

Nothing in that is unusual in either direction, which at nine and a half minutes a night is the whole point of the role.

The Finesse Game

Thirty-six shots in forty-nine games, five of which went in. The median travels 25 feet and 38 per cent came from inside twenty — an ordinary fourth-line chart.

No power-play time worth the name. Eleven points in forty-nine games.

89.8 mph off the stick, which is ordinary, with the standing caveat that a maximum is a season best and 413 minutes is a small number of chances at one.

The Physical Game

6-1 and 206. 1.57 miles a game, which is very little, and nine and a half minutes a night is most of the explanation. 22.7 mph top speed and 1.2 bursts over 20 mph a game.

Ten penalty minutes in forty-nine games, which on this roster is worth something: Edmonton killed penalties at the 27th-best rate in the league.

The Intangibles

Sixty-first overall in 2012, the second round, and 375 NHL games at 28 with 126 points and a career minus-62 — the worst in this chapter.

Seven seasons across four organisations, with a best of 32 points in 2016-17 and nothing near it since. The record is a thirteenth forward who has been a thirteenth forward for five years.

Edmonton has Connor McDavid, Leon Draisaitl, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Ryan McLeod, Derek Ryan and Mattias Janmark down the middle. He is behind all six and the job is to be available in November.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2021-22 · 413 minutes

Expected goals: 48.5%; 43rd pct
Shot attempts: 49.4%; 49th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 15 for, 19 against. Expected: 15.4 and 16.4.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

6th

Numbers

43rd

The numbers rank him 37 points above where the report does. 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 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 · 49 games

Top speed: 22.7 mph; 76th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 1.22 a game
Distance: 1.57 miles a game
Hardest shot: 89.8 mph; 65th pct

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 · 413 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, 2021-22

The club: EDM took 51.3% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 48.5% — 2.8 below the club he did it on.
The role: Fourth line, 413 minutes at five-on-five — 14th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Derek Ryan	56.9%	42.4%	49.7%
Cody Ceci	49.5%	47.9%	51.6%
Duncan Keith	42.7%	50.9%	50.1%

56.9% together, 42.4% for him apart and 49.7% for Ryan apart. Both were worse apart, so whatever the two of them had together was doing real work.

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

50 unblocked shots in 2021-22, 6 of them goals. His median goal came from 15 feet. 38% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 18% from beyond forty.