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Filip Hronek
Detroit Red Wings Defense
The 20th-fewest blocks of the 202 qualified defencemen at 22 minutes a night, and every Detroit forward took a better share of the chances with him than without.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | DET | 46 | 5 | 18 | 23 | -10 | 30 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 73 | 6.9 | 19:58 |
| 2019-20 | DET | 65 | 9 | 22 | 31 | -38 | 46 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 125 | 7.2 | 23:54 |
| 2020-21 | DET | 56 | 2 | 24 | 26 | -18 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 114 | 1.8 | 23:23 |
| 2021-22 | DET | 78 | 5 | 33 | 38 | -29 | 36 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 133 | 3.8 | 22:02 |
| 2022-23 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 245 | 21 | 97 | 118 | -95 | 128 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 445 | 4.7 | 22:27 |
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
5 goals and 33 assists in 78 games — 38 points at 22:02 a night, the 75th percentile among defencemen — with a minus-29, the 7th-worst of the 611 skaters who played 40 games, and 36 penalty minutes.
45.8 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,382 minutes, the 17th percentile. His ice went 53-72 against an expectation of 55.5-65.63 — two fewer goals for than the chances promised and six more against.
The Finesse Game
1.28 even-strength points per 60 is the 85th percentile among defencemen — the best on this blue line and better than Moritz Seider’s, which is the first of several places the two men swap.
4.64 shots per 60 is the 53rd percentile and five on 133 is 3.8 per cent. The median travels 47 feet and 15 per cent come from the slot, which is a shade closer than the position’s norm.
1:53 a night on the power play is the 77th percentile, with 18 per cent of his points there — a much lower dependence than Seider’s 42 per cent.
0.56 takeaways per 60 is the 15th percentile against 1.61 giveaways at the 40th. He does not steal pucks.
The Physical Game
6-0 and 190, which is small for twenty-two minutes a night.
2.83 blocks per 60 is the 20th-fewest of the 202 qualified defencemen and 2.44 hits is the 24th percentile. At his ice time that is the file of a man who is either standing in the wrong places or is not being asked to defend that way, and the repo has no column that separates the two.
0.63 penalties drawn per 60 is the 79th percentile against 0.49 taken at the 32nd — plus-0.14 net, the 88th. He is fouled more than he fouls.
22.2 mph is the 61st percentile and 8.51 miles per 60 the 109th of 192 from the bottom. Middling and middling.
39.8 per cent of his even-strength time was spent in the attacking zone, the 7th percentile among defencemen — the lowest of any Detroit defenceman, and lower than Seider’s 41.6.
The Intangibles
Fifty-third overall in 2016, the second round, and 245 NHL games at 24 with a career minus-95.
The with-and-without-you file is the whole argument. Dylan Larkin took 53.5 per cent of the chances with him over 687 attempts and 46.6 without. Tyler Bertuzzi 53.0 with and 47.7 without. Lucas Raymond 50.6 with and 46.6 without. Every one of Detroit’s top three forwards had its best defensive pairing when he was on.
Set that against Seider, whose forwards all did worse with him. Two defencemen, near-identical zone starts, twenty-two and twenty-three minutes, opposite readings. The 50-point rookie got the attention and the pair data says the other man carried the blue line.
None of that appears in a minus-29, which is the number everyone will quote at him.
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
“Every one of Detroit's top three forwards had its best defensive pairing when he was on.”
“At his ice time that is the file of a man who is either standing in the wrong places or is not being asked to defend that way”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2021-22 · 1,382 minutes
- Expected goals
- 45.8%
- 22nd pct
- Shot attempts
- 45.8%
- 20th 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: 53 for, 72 against. Expected: 55.5 and 65.6.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe report ranks him 26 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 649 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 60 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, 2021-22 · 78 games
- Top speed
- 22.2 mph
- 75th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.78 a game
- Distance
- 3.13 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 95.1 mph
- 70th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.5
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 90.4
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
2021-22 · 1382 minutes at five-on-five
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, 2021-22
- The club
- DET took 45.4% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 45.8% — 0.4 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- First pair, 1,382 minutes at five-on-five — 93rd percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nick Leddy | 45.8% | 45.8% | 45.5% |
| Marc Staal | 44.4% | 46.5% | 48.5% |
| Lucas Raymond | 50.6% | 43.5% | 46.6% |
45.8% together, 45.8% for him apart and 45.5% for Leddy 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
186 unblocked shots in 2021-22, 5 of them goals. His median goal came from 45 feet. 11% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 65% from beyond forty.