Elias Pettersson

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

80 games, 32 goals and 36 assists at 18:36 a night, plus-1, twelve penalty minutes, 192 shots. Ten of the thirty-two came on the power play and two short-handed. Fifth overall in 2017 by Vancouver, four seasons, 245 games, 221 points.

The Finesse Game

Forty per cent of his points came on the power play, the 96th percentile among the 393 forwards who played forty games, off 3:14 a night at the 91st. 1.98 even-strength points per 60 is the 62nd percentile, which is the number that keeps this from being a first-line file at five-on-five.

7.74 shots per 60 is the 59th percentile at 16.7 per cent, from a 30-foot median at the 88th percentile with thirty-nine per cent of his attempts from the slot at the 12th.

Thirty-two goals from further out than almost anyone who scores thirty.

2.26 takeaways per 60 is the 86th percentile against 1.57 giveaways at the 53rd.

49.5 per cent of the expected goals is the 49th percentile and 50.5 per cent of the attempts the 56th, out of 58.2 per cent offensive-zone starts, the 93rd-highest of the 652 skaters who took two hundred end-zone starts — a soft chair, and the shares come out level.

The Physical Game

1.21 penalties drawn per 60 is the 84th percentile against 0.20 taken at the 4th, and the net of plus-1.008 is the 4th-best of all 393 forwards. Only Connor McDavid, Tim Stützle and Kirill Kaprizov were more profitable to have on the ice when the officials were involved.

Twelve penalty minutes in eighty games at 6-2 and 176 pounds, and 1.98 hits per 60 at the 21st percentile.

The Intangibles

9.11 miles per 60 is the 12th percentile among forwards, against a 22.3 mph top speed at the 39th and 5.6 bursts over twenty miles an hour per 60 at the 56th.

Ordinary speed and less ground covered per minute than almost nine forwards in ten. For a 23-year-old at 176 pounds that is the one measurement in the file that does not fit the rest of it.

His shot is 96.2 mph, the 90th percentile.

He is 23, with 221 points in 245 games across four seasons, and sixty-eight is a career high by two. The penalty differential, the shot velocity, the takeaways and thirty-two goals at 23 are the case. A 49.5 per cent chance share out of the 93rd-softest chair in hockey and a 62nd-percentile even-strength rate are why the ninety-nine points on this roster belong to somebody else.