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Dryden Hunt
Calgary Flames Left Wing
Three goals, no assists in thirty-seven games, and the lowest distance covered of any forward in the league.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-18 | FLA | 11 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0.0 | 10:34 |
| 2018-19 | FLA | 31 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 53 | 5.7 | 11:04 |
| 2019-20 | FLA | 21 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 0.0 | 10:30 |
| 2020-21 | ARI | 26 | 3 | 5 | 8 | -6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 39 | 7.7 | 11:58 |
| 2021-22 | NYR | 76 | 6 | 11 | 17 | -10 | 52 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 94 | 6.4 | 12:17 |
| 2022-23 | NYR/COL/TOR | 37 | 3 | 0 | 3 | -10 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 13.0 | 8:04 |
| 2023-24 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 202 | 15 | 28 | 43 | -31 | 114 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 254 | 5.9 | 11:00 |
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
3 goals and no assists in 37 games across three clubs — 3 points at 8:04 a night, minus-10, on 23 shots and 24 penalty minutes.
45.4 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 295 minutes, the 23rd percentile. His ice went 5-15 against an expectation of 9.09-10.95, which on 295 minutes is a small enough sample that it should not be read as a description.
No assists in thirty-seven NHL games is a difficult thing to do.
The Finesse Game
23 attempts at a median of 24 feet, converting at 13.04 per cent. 43 points in 202 career games.
There is no offensive game. He was a productive American League scorer and none of it has ever survived the step up.
The Physical Game
6-0 and 193 and he forechecks and finishes checks — 114 penalty minutes in 202 games.
1.23 miles a game is the 0th percentile in the league, on an eight-minute role. The top speed is fine at 22.4 mph, the 53rd percentile, so this is a description of the job rather than of the legs.
The Intangibles
Undrafted, out of the Western league, and 202 NHL games across six seasons and five clubs.
He is 27. He is a thirteenth forward and an American League call-up, and the reason he is in this book is that Calgary needed bodies rather than that anybody expects him to play.
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.
- a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed
- he lacks itraised, and he does not have it
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.
“Undrafted, out of the Western league”
“No assists in thirty-seven NHL games is a difficult thing to do.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2022-23 · 295 minutes
- Expected goals
- 45.4%
- 23rd pct
- Shot attempts
- 50.1%
- 54th 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: 5 for, 15 against. Expected: 9.1 and 10.9.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 20 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 120 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 50 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
2022-23 with COL · 193 minutes at five-on-five
- Alex Newhooknow MTL23%
- Martin Kautoff the roster19%
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
- TOR took 54.5% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 45.4% — 9.1 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- 295 minutes at five-on-five — 5th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Erik Johnson | 43.5% | 45.8% | 48.4% |
| Jacob MacDonald | 53.0% | 42.8% | 49.8% |
| Jayson Megna | 39.6% | 46.8% | 38.9% |
43.5% together, 45.8% for him apart and 48.4% for Johnson apart. Johnson was better away from him while his own share held, which is a mark against him more 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
33 unblocked shots in 2022-23, 3 of them goals. His median goal came from 7 feet. 45% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 27% from beyond forty.