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Jeffrey Viel
San Jose Sharks Left Wing
A hundred and fourteen penalty minutes in thirty-four games, undrafted, at 8:48 a night.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-21 | SJS | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -7 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0.0 | 7:16 |
| 2021-22 | SJS | 34 | 3 | 2 | 5 | -2 | 114 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 10.0 | 8:48 |
| 2022-23 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 45 | 3 | 2 | 5 | -9 | 137 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 7.5 | 8:26 |
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
34 games, 3 goals and 2 assists at 8:48 a night, minus-2, 114 penalty minutes, 30 shots. Undrafted, and forty-five NHL games out of it.
Two hundred and ninety-seven minutes of five-on-five ice is well short of the five hundred this book requires before it will place a man in the league distribution, so what follows is described rather than ranked.
The Finesse Game
Three goals from thirty shots, from a 20-foot median with fifty-five per cent of them from inside twenty feet. Nobody on this roster shoots from closer and there are thirty attempts across the season.
46.4 per cent of the expected goals across 297 five-on-five minutes, and his ice went 6-8 against an expectation of 9.99-11.56. Fourteen goals in a whole season on his ice is not a sample.
He started 62.1 per cent of his end-zone shifts in the attacking end — seventy-seven against forty-seven — which would be a top-thirty chair in the league had he taken the two hundred starts this book needs before it will rank one.
His shot is 81.5 mph, the 3rd percentile of the 568 skaters the tracking covers, which is the softest on this roster and among the softest in the book.
The Physical Game
A hundred and fourteen penalty minutes in thirty-four games at 8:48 a night, and 137 across a forty-five-game career.
That is three and a third minutes of penalties per game. Not per sixty — per game, off an eight-and-three-quarter-minute shift. It is the highest rate of penalty minutes per game of any skater in this batch of four clubs and it is not close.
6-1 and 214 pounds.
The Intangibles
1.44 miles a game is the 1st percentile of the 568 skaters the tracking measures, and at under nine minutes a night that is the shift length rather than the skater.
22.5 mph top speed and 0.9 bursts a game, both drawn from thirty-four games.
He is 25, undrafted, and has forty-five NHL games and five points. The penalty minutes are the entire file and the club that gave him the ice finished 22nd. A soft chair, a soft shot and three and a third minutes of penalties a game is not a role a club that has decided to rebuild keeps paying for.
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.
“A hundred and fourteen penalty minutes in thirty-four games at 8:48 a night, and 137 across a forty-five-game career.”
“Undrafted, and forty-five NHL games out of it.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2021-22 · 297 minutes
- Expected goals
- 46.4%
- 26th pct
- Shot attempts
- 44.1%
- 11th 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: 6 for, 8 against. Expected: 10.0 and 11.6.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 7 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 649 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 57 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 · 34 games
- Top speed
- 22.5 mph
- 66th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.85 a game
- Distance
- 1.44 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 81.5 mph
- 26th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.0
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 84.1
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 · 297 minutes at five-on-five
- Scott Reedyoff the roster30%
- Jasper Weatherbyoff the roster28%
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
- SJS took 47.4% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 46.4% — 1.0 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- 297 minutes at five-on-five — 8th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jonah Gadjovich | 43.2% | 48.3% | 43.6% |
| Brent Burns | 48.3% | 45.4% | 46.7% |
| Marc-Edouard Vlasic | 40.1% | 49.4% | 45.3% |
43.2% together, 48.3% for him apart and 43.6% for Gadjovich apart. He was better away from Gadjovich, who was no worse away from him — the pairing cost him more than it cost Gadjovich.
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
38 unblocked shots in 2021-22, 3 of them goals. His median goal came from 11 feet. 55% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 24% from beyond forty.