Gavin Bayreuther
Columbus Blue Jackets Defense
Forty-three games at 13:03, the 4th-lowest ice time of any qualified defenceman, and a 99.2 mph shot he never scored with.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | DAL | 19 | 2 | 3 | 5 | +2 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 8.0 | 18:11 |
| 2020-21 | CBJ | 9 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 6.3 | 15:23 |
| 2021-22 | CBJ | 43 | 0 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 44 | 0.0 | 13:03 |
| 2022-23 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 71 | 3 | 11 | 14 | +1 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 85 | 3.5 | 14:43 |
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
0 goals and 8 assists in 43 games — 8 points at 13:03 a night, even, with 22 penalty minutes.
45.9 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 539 minutes, the 18th percentile among defencemen. His ice went 27-29 against an expectation of 20.15-23.74, so both ends ran well past the chances in a small sample.
13:03 a night is the 4th-lowest of the 202 qualified defencemen. He is the seventh man who dressed often enough to qualify, and that is what the number is describing.
The Finesse Game
Forty-four shots and no goals, on a median distance of 54 feet with 86 per cent of them from beyond 40. His top shot speed was 99.2 mph, the 88th percentile among defencemen — the shot is hard and it comes from nowhere near the net.
1.28 takeaways per 60 is the 77th percentile among defencemen against 1.28 giveaways at the 21st. He is a low-event third-pair defenceman whose one distinguishing figure is a blue-line one-timer.
The Physical Game
6-2 and 210, 5.34 hits and 4.81 blocks per 60, both near the middle of the position. He is honest and unremarkable in his own end.
20.8 mph is the 5th percentile among defencemen and 0.4 bursts over 20 mph per 60 is the 9th. Forty-three games is half a season’s chances at a top speed, which softens the first figure; the bursts are a rate, and they say the same thing.
The Intangibles
Undrafted out of St. Lawrence, and 71 NHL games at 28 across Dallas and here.
On a club with four defencemen under 26 and a new signing on the right side, he is the veteran who plays when somebody is hurt, and the shot is the reason he is worth having in the room rather than in Cleveland.
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
- ordinaryraised, and called ordinary
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.
- perimeter· shoots from the outside, by choice or because he cannot get in
85.7% of his attempts from 40 feet or beyond, 97th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
“Undrafted out of St. Lawrence, and 71 NHL games at 28 across Dallas and here.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2021-22 · 539 minutes
- Expected goals
- 45.9%
- 22nd pct
- Shot attempts
- 48%
- 37th 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: 27 for, 29 against. Expected: 20.1 and 23.7.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 20 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 649 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 45 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 · 43 games
- Top speed
- 20.8 mph
- 21st pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.09 a game
- Distance
- 1.84 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 99.2 mph
- 91st 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 · 539 minutes at five-on-five
- Adam Boqvist19%
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
- CBJ took 44.8% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 45.9% — 1.1 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third pair, 539 minutes at five-on-five — 22nd percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jakub Voracek | 53.4% | 43.0% | 41.6% |
| Oliver Bjorkstrand | 52.5% | 43.5% | 47.2% |
| Cole Sillinger | 50.6% | 44.4% | 44.1% |
53.4% together, 43.0% for him apart and 41.6% for Voracek 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
63 unblocked shots in 2021-22, 0 of them goals. 2% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 86% from beyond forty.