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Devin Shore
Seattle Kraken Center
1.44 miles a game — the lowest figure in this book — and one goal in forty-seven games.
| 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 | EDM | 47 | 1 | 8 | 9 | +6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 3.0 | 8:58 |
| 2023-24 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 422 | 50 | 85 | 135 | -56 | 69 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 467 | 10.7 | 12:44 |
This Season So Far
The 2023-24 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
1 goal and 8 assists in 47 games — 9 points — at 8:58 a night for Edmonton. Plus-6, 33 shots at 3.0 per cent, 4 penalty minutes.
8:58 a night is the lowest ice time of any forward in this chapter and the lowest of an eight-year career.
47.4 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five across 407 minutes, the 28th percentile, with his ice at 13-7 against an expectation of 16.11-17.85.
He started 49 per cent of his shifts in the attacking zone, the 41st percentile. Four hundred and seven minutes is a month of a regular’s season.
The Finesse Game
33 shots at a median of 22 feet. Inside twenty feet: 17 shots on goal and no goals. From twenty to forty: 11 shots and one goal. Beyond forty: five shots and none.
Seventeen shots on goal from inside twenty feet without scoring is a bad run rather than a finding, and thirty-three shots is not a season.
The career figure is the useful one: 50 goals in 422 games at 10.7 per cent, which is an ordinary bottom-six rate, and the 13 goals he scored in 2016-17 is the high-water mark.
48 tracked attempts, a single slap shot, and 79.5 mph at the 2nd percentile — one of the softest measured shots in this book.
What he does is win a draw and get the puck out. There is no offensive claim in this file and there has not been one for six seasons.
The Physical Game
6-1 and 206 pounds. 1.44 miles a game — the 0th percentile, and the lowest figure of the 575 skaters in this edition with forty games.
Nine minutes a night is most of that and not all of it: the top speed is 21.5 mph at the 14th percentile and the burst count is 0.8 a game at the 43rd, so he is slow as well as sparingly used.
4 penalty minutes in 47 games and 69 in 422 career games — one of the cleanest records in this book, from a forward who plays a checking role.
He kills penalties and has five career shorthanded goals, which alongside the faceoffs is the entire case for a thirteenth forward.
The Intangibles
Sixty-first overall in 2012, the second round, eight seasons, 422 games, 135 points across Dallas, Anaheim, Columbus and Edmonton.
The two 32-and-33-point seasons in Dallas in 2016-17 and 2017-18 are the whole of the offensive career, and the five seasons since have produced 29, 12, 9, 11 and 9.
He is twenty-nine, a minus-56 for a career, and a depth forward on a club that has four lines and needs a fourteenth man.
The 1.44 miles a game is the number this file is here for. It is the floor of the distribution, and it belongs to a man who played forty-seven games.
What kind of player
The searchable half of the report. The first group is computed from the season's own data; the rest are read out of the prose above, and each one carries the sentence that produced it. A subject the report never raised is simply absent.
- measuredcomputed here from the season's own data
- a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed
Each computed tag also says how well its measure holds up from one season to the next, because a tag describes a season that has finished and a reader will assume it predicts the one coming. Some do and some do not, and the gap is wide: five-on-five workload repeats well, scoring late does not repeat at all.
- disciplined· stays out of the box
0.09 penalty minutes a game over 47, 4th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.75) · 35% keep it
“He kills penalties and has five career shorthanded goals, which alongside the faceoffs is the entire case for a thirteenth forward.”
“What he does is win a draw and get the puck out.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2022-23 · 407 minutes
- Expected goals
- 47.4%
- 34th pct
- Shot attempts
- 48.4%
- 41st 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: 13 for, 7 against. Expected: 16.1 and 17.9.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 19 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 638 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 57 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, 2022-23 · 47 games
- Top speed
- 21.5 mph
- 24th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.79 a game
- Distance
- 1.44 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 79.5 mph
- 17th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.0
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 84.9
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
2022-23 with EDM · 407 minutes at five-on-five
- Derek Ryan73%
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, 2022-23
- The club
- EDM took 53.5% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 47.4% — 6.1 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Fourth line, 407 minutes at five-on-five — 11th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Derek Ryan | 48.5% | 44.6% | 59.3% |
| Brett Kulak | 44.2% | 49.4% | 51.7% |
| Klim Kostin | 43.4% | 49.9% | 48.8% |
48.5% together, 44.6% for him apart and 59.3% for Ryan apart. He was the one being carried: the share went with Ryan and did not follow 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
48 unblocked shots in 2022-23, 1 of them goals. His median goal came from 21 feet. 42% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 13% from beyond forty.