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Eric Robinson
Carolina Hurricanes Left Wing
Undrafted, three hundred and six games, and three career shorthanded goals from a fourth line.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-18 | CBJ | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.0 | 11:21 |
| 2018-19 | CBJ | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 0.0 | 11:50 |
| 2019-20 | CBJ | 50 | 7 | 5 | 12 | +10 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 69 | 10.1 | 10:57 |
| 2020-21 | CBJ | 56 | 8 | 10 | 18 | +6 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 75 | 10.7 | 12:24 |
| 2021-22 | CBJ | 67 | 10 | 17 | 27 | -1 | 18 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 104 | 9.6 | 13:54 |
| 2022-23 | CBJ | 72 | 12 | 12 | 24 | -21 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 98 | 12.2 | 13:57 |
| 2023-24 | CBJ/BUF | 47 | 3 | 7 | 10 | -3 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 61 | 4.9 | 11:20 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 306 | 40 | 51 | 91 | -12 | 59 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 427 | 9.4 | 12:40 |
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
3 goals and 7 assists in 47 games for Buffalo — 10 points at 11:20 a night, minus-3, with 1 game-winner on 61 shots at 4.92 per cent, and 19 penalty minutes.
44.8 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 511 minutes, the 18th percentile. His ice went 25-16 against an expectation of 20.96-25.86 — four goals scored above expectation and ten fewer conceded, on a club that missed the playoffs.
The Finesse Game
61 attempts at a median of 20 feet, with 48 per cent from inside 20 and 13 per cent from beyond 40, converting at 4.92 per cent. Forty goals in 306 career games; he shoots from the right places and does not score from them.
7 assists. He does not create and the puck does not stay on his stick.
The Physical Game
6-2 and 220. He forechecks first and he closes on a defenceman faster than almost any fourth-line forward in the league — the skating is the top end of the roster and the size behind it makes the arrival matter.
19 penalty minutes in 47 games and 59 in 306 for his career is a genuinely low rate for a forward who plays this way. He does not retaliate. He is trusted a man short and has 3 career shorthanded goals.
The Intangibles
Undrafted, out of Princeton, and 306 NHL games and 91 points at 29 across three clubs.
He was signed here in the summer. An undrafted forward with three hundred NHL games who kills penalties and does not take them is exactly what the club with the best penalty kill in the league should be buying, and it cost nothing.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 511 minutes
- Expected goals
- 44.8%
- 18th pct
- Shot attempts
- 50.6%
- 59th 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: 25 for, 16 against. Expected: 21.0 and 25.9.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe report ranks him 28 points above where the numbers do. 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 201 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 63 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 with BUF · 427 minutes at five-on-five
- Zemgus Girgensonsnow TBL43%
- Peyton Krebs43%
- Kyle Okposooff the roster30%
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
- BUF took 48.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 44.8% — 4.1 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Fourth line, 511 minutes at five-on-five — 18th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peyton Krebs | 51.2% | 40.9% | 46.8% |
| Zemgus Girgensons | 48.8% | 42.7% | 45.8% |
| Owen Power | 44.0% | 45.0% | 49.0% |
51.2% together, 40.9% for him apart and 46.8% for Krebs apart. Both were worse apart, so whatever the two of them had together was doing real work.
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
91 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 3 of them goals. His median goal came from 20 feet. 48% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 13% from beyond forty.