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| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | WPG | 15 | 0 | 5 | 5 | +3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 0.0 | 14:51 |
| 2022-23 | WPG | 63 | 2 | 6 | 8 | +10 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 49 | 4.1 | 14:56 |
| 2023-24 | WPG | 78 | 1 | 17 | 18 | +16 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 77 | 1.3 | 15:38 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 156 | 3 | 28 | 31 | +29 | 72 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 140 | 2.1 | 15:17 |
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
78 games, 1 goal and 17 assists for 18 points, 43 penalty minutes, 15:38 a night and plus-16. He took 52.4 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,062 minutes, the 70th percentile, and his ice went 36-23 against an expectation of 40.60-36.93.
Five goals of finishing below what the chances were worth and fourteen goals of goaltending above them. Eighteen points is a career high and he played 78 games to get it.
The Finesse Game
108 attempts at a median of 55 feet with 75 per cent of them from beyond forty and 0.9 per cent from inside twenty, 76 of those on goal, converted at 1.3 per cent against a career 2.14 across 140 shots.
Twenty-eight career assists against 3 goals in 156 games. One attempt in a hundred and eight came from inside twenty feet, which is a defenceman who has never once been past the far dot with the puck; the first pass is the whole of the offensive contribution and it is a good one.
The Physical Game
He is 6-4 and 216 and took 43 penalty minutes.
Seventy-two career penalty minutes in 156 games. He is large and defends by taking the man off the puck at the wall and out of the front of the net, and he does it without the reputation or the penalty totals that usually come with it.
The Intangibles
Forty-third overall in 2017 by Winnipeg, three seasons, one organisation, and 31 points in 156 games.
A career plus-29 in 156 games. He is 25, he was a second-round pick by this club, and he has been on the right side of the ledger in all three of his seasons.
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
- 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.
- durable· was available
78 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
“He is large and defends by taking the man off the puck at the wall and out of the front of the net, and he does it without the reputation or the penalty totals that usually come with it.”
“One attempt in a hundred and eight came from inside twenty feet, which is a defenceman who has never once been past the far dot with the puck; the first pass is the whole of the offensive contribution and it is a good one.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 1,062 minutes
- Expected goals
- 52.4%
- 71st pct
- Shot attempts
- 52.9%
- 78th 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: 36 for, 23 against. Expected: 40.6 and 36.9.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 13 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 652 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 77 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, 2023-24 · 78 games
- Top speed
- 22.0 mph
- 62nd pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.40 a game
- Distance
- 2.22 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 91.7 mph
- 50th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.7
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 90.2
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
2023-24 · 1062 minutes at five-on-five
- Neal Pionk15%
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
- WPG took 52.0% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 52.4% — 0.4 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third pair, 1,062 minutes at five-on-five — 67th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nate Schmidt | 52.9% | 51.9% | 55.0% |
| Nikolaj Ehlers | 55.0% | 51.3% | 56.6% |
| Vladislav Namestnikov | 50.6% | 53.0% | 54.0% |
52.9% together, 51.9% for him apart and 55.0% for Schmidt apart. Splitting them up moved neither man. Whatever is driving the share, it is not this pairing.
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
108 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 1 of them goals. His median goal came from 51 feet. 1% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 75% from beyond forty.