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Drew Doughty
Los Angeles Kings Defense
Twenty-five forty-eight a night at 34, second in the edition, and 1,177 games without missing much.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008-09 | LAK | 81 | 6 | 21 | 27 | -17 | 56 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 126 | 4.8 | 23:50 |
| 2009-10 | LAK | 82 | 16 | 43 | 59 | +20 | 54 | 9 | 0 | 5 | 142 | 11.3 | 24:59 |
| 2010-11 | LAK | 76 | 11 | 29 | 40 | +13 | 68 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 139 | 7.9 | 25:39 |
| 2011-12 | LAK | 77 | 10 | 26 | 36 | -2 | 69 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 168 | 5.9 | 24:54 |
| 2012-13 | LAK | 48 | 6 | 16 | 22 | +4 | 36 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 114 | 5.3 | 26:24 |
| 2013-14 | LAK | 78 | 10 | 27 | 37 | +17 | 64 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 177 | 5.7 | 25:43 |
| 2014-15 | LAK | 82 | 7 | 39 | 46 | +3 | 56 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 219 | 3.2 | 29:00 |
| 2015-16 | LAK | 82 | 14 | 37 | 51 | +24 | 52 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 197 | 7.1 | 28:01 |
| 2016-17 | LAK | 82 | 12 | 32 | 44 | +8 | 46 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 181 | 6.6 | 27:09 |
| 2017-18 | LAK | 82 | 10 | 50 | 60 | +23 | 54 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 205 | 4.9 | 26:50 |
| 2018-19 | LAK | 82 | 8 | 37 | 45 | -34 | 44 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 154 | 5.2 | 26:36 |
| 2019-20 | LAK | 67 | 7 | 28 | 35 | -16 | 36 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 141 | 5.0 | 25:49 |
| 2020-21 | LAK | 56 | 8 | 26 | 34 | -14 | 26 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 101 | 7.9 | 26:23 |
| 2021-22 | LAK | 39 | 7 | 24 | 31 | +4 | 30 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 99 | 7.1 | 25:44 |
| 2022-23 | LAK | 81 | 9 | 43 | 52 | +12 | 34 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 145 | 6.2 | 26:14 |
| 2023-24 | LAK | 82 | 15 | 35 | 50 | +15 | 44 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 135 | 11.1 | 25:48 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 1177 | 156 | 513 | 669 | +60 | 769 | 80 | 2 | 33 | 2443 | 6.4 | 26:13 |
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
All 82 games, 15 goals and 35 assists for 50 points, 7 on the power play, 44 penalty minutes, 25:48 a night and plus-15. He took 55.0 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,598 minutes, the 87th percentile, and his ice went 60-44 against an expectation of 67.89-55.51.
Eight goals of scoring that did not arrive on his ice and eleven fewer conceded than the chances called for. The 25:48 is second in this edition behind John Carlson’s 25:54 and the 1,598 five-on-five minutes are fifth.
The Finesse Game
135 shots at a median of 51 feet with 74 per cent from beyond 40, converted at 11.1 per cent against a career 6.4.
513 career assists in 1,177 games. Fifteen goals at that shot profile is a season that will not repeat and the assists are the real number. He walks the line, holds it under pressure, and makes the first pass out of trouble as well as anybody of his age in the league.
The Physical Game
He is 6-1 and 210 and defends with position and stick rather than weight.
769 career penalty minutes in 1,177 games is a moderate rate for a defenceman who has played this many hard minutes. He blocks shots, kills penalties and clears the front of his net, and he will say something about it afterwards.
The Intangibles
Second overall in 2008 out of London, Ontario, sixteen seasons, 1,177 games and two Stanley Cups, all of it for one organisation. He has a Norris Trophy and an Olympic gold medal.
He is 34 and plays more than all but one man in this edition. Everything about the profile says the fall is coming and nothing in last season’s numbers says it has started.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 1,598 minutes
- Expected goals
- 55%
- 87th pct
- Shot attempts
- 54.6%
- 88th 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: 60 for, 44 against. Expected: 67.9 and 55.5.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 9 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 379 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 · 1598 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, 2023-24
- The club
- LAK took 54.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 55.0% — 0.9 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- First pair, 1,598 minutes at five-on-five — 99th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mikey Anderson | 53.9% | 57.9% | 47.3% |
| Anze Kopitar | 53.9% | 55.6% | 49.9% |
| Quinton Byfield | 57.3% | 54.1% | 54.0% |
53.9% together, 57.9% for him apart and 47.3% for Anderson apart. He was carrying it: the share stayed with him and left Anderson behind.
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
184 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 15 of them goals. His median goal came from 45 feet. 7% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 74% from beyond forty.