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Erik Haula
New Jersey Devils Left Wing
One hundred and eighty-second overall in 2009, 690 games, and eight career shorthanded goals.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-14 | MIN | 46 | 6 | 9 | 15 | +14 | 29 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 56 | 10.7 | 10:09 |
| 2014-15 | MIN | 72 | 7 | 7 | 14 | -7 | 32 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 92 | 7.6 | 12:09 |
| 2015-16 | MIN | 76 | 14 | 20 | 34 | +21 | 24 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 99 | 14.1 | 12:44 |
| 2016-17 | MIN | 72 | 15 | 11 | 26 | +5 | 28 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 134 | 11.2 | 13:49 |
| 2017-18 | VGK | 76 | 29 | 26 | 55 | -16 | 37 | 11 | 0 | 4 | 175 | 16.6 | 17:22 |
| 2018-19 | VGK | 15 | 2 | 5 | 7 | +1 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 7.7 | 16:35 |
| 2019-20 | CAR/FLA | 48 | 12 | 12 | 24 | +1 | 22 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 92 | 13.0 | 15:50 |
| 2020-21 | NSH | 51 | 9 | 12 | 21 | +4 | 14 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 85 | 10.6 | 16:00 |
| 2021-22 | BOS | 78 | 18 | 26 | 44 | +19 | 47 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 141 | 12.8 | 15:06 |
| 2022-23 | NJD | 80 | 14 | 27 | 41 | +13 | 47 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 164 | 8.5 | 16:38 |
| 2023-24 | NJD | 76 | 16 | 19 | 35 | -1 | 54 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 155 | 10.3 | 16:53 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 690 | 142 | 174 | 316 | +54 | 344 | 23 | 8 | 21 | 1219 | 11.7 | 14:50 |
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
76 games, 16 goals and 19 assists for 35 points, 1 on the power play, 1 shorthanded, 54 penalty minutes, 16:53 a night and minus-1. He took 52.6 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,027 minutes, the 72nd percentile, and his ice went 43-44 against an expectation of 43.75-39.50.
Level with the chances at one end and five more conceded than they called for at the other. A minus-1 in a season where the club was minus-19 overall is a good result from a third-line centre.
The Finesse Game
155 shots at a median of 27 feet with 42 per cent from inside 20, converted at 10.3 per cent against a career 11.65.
174 career assists in 690 games. He has scored between 12 and 18 goals in six different seasons and the twenty-nine in Vegas is the outlier nobody should have believed. He passes early and shoots from the slot, and neither is exceptional.
The Physical Game
He is 5-11 and 191 and plays a harder game than the size suggests.
54 penalty minutes in 76 games is a real rate for a checking centre. He takes the defensive-zone draw, forechecks hard, and kills penalties with 8 career shorthanded goals in 690 games.
The Intangibles
A seventh-round pick in 2009 out of Pori, eleven seasons across seven organisations, and 316 points in 690 games.
He is 33 and has done this job for a decade in six cities. On a club that lost twenty-two goals of goaltending in a year, a third-line centre finishing at minus-1 is a small thing worth noticing.
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
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.
“He takes the defensive-zone draw, forechecks hard, and kills penalties with 8 career shorthanded goals in 690 games.”
“He takes the defensive-zone draw, forechecks hard, and kills penalties with 8 career shorthanded goals in 690 games.”
“He takes the defensive-zone draw, forechecks hard, and kills penalties with 8 career shorthanded goals in 690 games.”
“He is 5-11 and 191 and plays a harder game than the size suggests.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 1,027 minutes
- Expected goals
- 52.6%
- 72nd 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: 43 for, 44 against. Expected: 43.8 and 39.5.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 21 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 652 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 70 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 · 76 games
- Top speed
- 23.5 mph
- 96th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.87 a game
- Distance
- 2.62 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 88.0 mph
- 57th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.1
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 84.5
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 · 1027 minutes at five-on-five
- Jack Hughes32%
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
- NJD took 50.7% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 52.6% — 1.9 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third line, 1,027 minutes at five-on-five — 62nd percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Luke Hughes | 51.5% | 53.2% | 52.1% |
| Jack Hughes | 51.3% | 53.3% | 54.1% |
| Dawson Mercer | 51.6% | 53.0% | 46.9% |
51.5% together, 53.2% for him apart and 52.1% for Hughes 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
216 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 15 of them goals. His median goal came from 11 feet. 42% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 27% from beyond forty.