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Hendrix Lapierre
Washington Capitals Center
No goals in 27 games, five years after a first-round pick and three concussions.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | WSH | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 14.3 | 9:35 |
| 2023-24 | WSH | 51 | 8 | 14 | 22 | -1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 51 | 15.7 | 11:26 |
| 2024-25 | WSH | 27 | 0 | 8 | 8 | -3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 0.0 | 9:48 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 84 | 9 | 22 | 31 | -2 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 76 | 11.8 | 10:47 |
This Season So Far
The 2025-26 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
No goals and 8 assists in 27 games — 8 points at 9:48 a night, minus-3, on 18 shots, and 4 penalty minutes.
45.7 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 17th percentile, across 251 minutes. His ice went 13-5 against an expectation of 9.32-11.07 on a very small sample.
The Finesse Game
18 attempts in 27 games at a median of 18 feet with 54 per cent from inside 20, and no goals.
8 assists in 27 games is the encouraging half — he sees the ice well, he holds the puck a beat and finds the seam, and 22 assists against 9 goals in 84 career games says the distribution is the skill. What is missing is any ability to finish and any way to get himself the puck at this level.
The Physical Game
6-0 and 195 and he does not play a physical game. He does not forecheck with force and he does not win pucks on the wall.
4 penalty minutes in 27 games. He is uninvolved in that half of the game entirely, which at ten minutes a night on the fourth line is the whole problem.
The Intangibles
Twenty-second overall in 2020 and 84 NHL games across three seasons.
He is 23. He suffered three concussions and a serious neck injury in his draft year and fell out of a top-ten conversation because of it. Five years on he has 31 points and no clear job, and the body is no longer the explanation.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 251 minutes
- Expected goals
- 45.7%
- 17th pct
- Shot attempts
- 51.9%
- 73rd 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: 13 for, 5 against. Expected: 9.3 and 11.1.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 13 points of one another. 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.
Both bars are percentiles among the 637 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 69 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
2024-25 · 251 minutes at five-on-five
- Jakub Vranaoff the roster45%
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, 2024-25
- The club
- WSH took 50.8% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 45.7% — 5.1 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Fourth line, 251 minutes at five-on-five — 4th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jakub Vrana | 41.9% | 49.4% | 45.0% |
| Lars Eller | 46.1% | 45.5% | 50.7% |
| Martin Fehérváry | 39.0% | 50.3% | 54.1% |
41.9% together, 49.4% for him apart and 45.0% for Vrana apart. Both were better apart than together — the pairing was doing neither of them any favours.
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
28 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 0 of them goals. 54% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 21% from beyond forty.