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Evan Rodrigues
Florida Panthers Center
Undrafted, 5-11, and his ice conceded twelve fewer goals than the chances said it should.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-16 | BUF | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 12.5 | 11:45 |
| 2016-17 | BUF | 30 | 4 | 2 | 6 | -7 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 51 | 7.8 | 12:56 |
| 2017-18 | BUF | 48 | 7 | 18 | 25 | -10 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 91 | 7.7 | 13:56 |
| 2018-19 | BUF | 74 | 9 | 20 | 29 | -7 | 25 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 168 | 5.4 | 15:49 |
| 2019-20 | BUF/PIT | 45 | 6 | 4 | 10 | -8 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 75 | 8.0 | 11:17 |
| 2020-21 | PIT | 35 | 7 | 7 | 14 | -3 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 65 | 10.8 | 14:06 |
| 2021-22 | PIT | 82 | 19 | 24 | 43 | +3 | 14 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 243 | 7.8 | 15:50 |
| 2022-23 | COL | 69 | 16 | 23 | 39 | +7 | 30 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 184 | 8.7 | 17:51 |
| 2023-24 | FLA | 80 | 12 | 27 | 39 | +26 | 34 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 186 | 6.5 | 15:10 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 465 | 81 | 126 | 207 | +3 | 141 | 23 | 0 | 8 | 1071 | 7.6 | 15:03 |
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
80 games, 12 goals and 27 assists for 39 points, 3 on the power play, 34 penalty minutes, 15:10 a night and plus-26. He took 56.1 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,040 minutes, the 92nd percentile, and his ice went 46-23 against an expectation of 45.07-35.25.
Twelve goals fewer conceded than the chances called for, which is the largest such gap among the club’s forwards and belongs to Sergei Bobrovsky rather than to him. The plus-26 should be read with that in mind.
The Finesse Game
186 shots at a median of 31 feet with 30 per cent from inside 20, converted at 6.5 per cent against a career 7.6.
126 career assists in 465 games. He is a quick, honest skater who moves the puck early and gets to the right place without the puck, which is why he has spent nine seasons being useful on a series of rosters without ever being important on one.
The Physical Game
He is 5-11 and 182 and avoids contact.
34 penalty minutes in 80 games is an ordinary rate. He does not punish anybody and he is moved off the puck easily, and the compensation is that he is rarely standing still long enough to be hit.
The Intangibles
Undrafted, out of Toronto, four years at Boston University, and 465 games since. 207 points and a career plus-3 across nine seasons.
He is 31 and this was comfortably the best season of his career on comfortably the best club he has played for. Both of those facts are worth remembering when reading the plus-26.
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
80 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
“Undrafted, out of Toronto, four years at Boston University, and 465 games since.”
“He does not punish anybody and he is moved off the puck easily, and the compensation is that he is rarely standing still long enough to be hit.”
“He does not punish anybody and he is moved off the puck easily, and the compensation is that he is rarely standing still long enough to be hit.”
“He is a quick, honest skater who moves the puck early and gets to the right place without the puck, which is why he has spent nine seasons being useful on a series of rosters without ever being important on one.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 1,040 minutes
- Expected goals
- 56.1%
- 92nd pct
- Shot attempts
- 58.1%
- 97th 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: 46 for, 23 against. Expected: 45.1 and 35.3.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 61 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 — 65 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 · 80 games
- Top speed
- 22.1 mph
- 45th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.45 a game
- Distance
- 2.43 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 90.4 mph
- 73rd 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 · 1040 minutes at five-on-five
- Sam Reinhart43%
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
- FLA took 53.7% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 56.1% — 2.4 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- First line, 1,040 minutes at five-on-five — 64th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aleksander Barkov | 59.4% | 53.1% | 62.2% |
| Sam Reinhart | 59.1% | 53.6% | 58.4% |
| Gustav Forsling | 56.8% | 55.6% | 55.9% |
59.4% together, 53.1% for him apart and 62.2% for Barkov apart. He was worse away from Barkov, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Barkov did.
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
252 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 12 of them goals. His median goal came from 16 feet. 30% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 28% from beyond forty.