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John Hayden
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The fewest even-strength points per 60 of all 393 forwards, and the 11th-most penalties drawn.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-17 | CHI | 12 | 1 | 3 | 4 | +3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 4.5 | 11:41 |
| 2017-18 | CHI | 47 | 4 | 9 | 13 | -4 | 54 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 56 | 7.1 | 10:49 |
| 2018-19 | CHI | 54 | 3 | 2 | 5 | -12 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 42 | 7.1 | 9:10 |
| 2019-20 | NJD | 43 | 3 | 1 | 4 | -2 | 77 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 39 | 7.7 | 9:43 |
| 2020-21 | ARI | 29 | 2 | 3 | 5 | -4 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 21 | 9.5 | 9:49 |
| 2021-22 | BUF | 55 | 2 | 2 | 4 | -12 | 84 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 65 | 3.1 | 10:51 |
| 2022-23 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 240 | 15 | 20 | 35 | -31 | 283 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 245 | 6.1 | 10:11 |
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
55 games for Buffalo, 2 goals and 2 assists at 10:51 a night, minus-12, eighty-four penalty minutes, 65 shots. Seventy-fourth overall in 2013 by Chicago — the third round — six seasons.
The Finesse Game
0.43 even-strength points per 60 is the fewest of all 393 forwards who played forty games. Not a band — the lowest figure in the league.
Two goals from sixty-five shots is 3.1 per cent, the 1st percentile. His shot is 82.8 mph, the 7th percentile. There is no offence here in any column and the record does not pretend otherwise.
41.6 per cent of the expected goals is the 4th percentile and 43.0 per cent of the attempts the 4th, out of 46.0 per cent offensive-zone starts, the 211th-lowest of the 652 skaters who took two hundred end-zone starts — below level and nothing like the hardest chair in the league.
His ice went 10-21 against an expectation of 16.51-23.21, on the club that finished 28th in goaltending at minus-26.5.
The Physical Game
10.46 hits per 60 is the 90th percentile among forwards, at 6-3 and 223 pounds.
2.11 penalties taken per 60 is the 98th percentile among forwards and eighty-four penalty minutes came out of fifty-five games at 10:51 a night.
And he draws them too: 1.81 per 60 is the 11th-most of the 393. The net is minus-0.30, the 15th percentile. He is involved in more penalties per minute than almost anybody in hockey and loses the exchange.
2.41 blocks per 60 is the 81st percentile.
The Intangibles
21.8 mph is the 15th percentile, 3.7 bursts per 60 the 30th, 9.81 miles per 60 the 64th. Nothing in the skating explains the possession shares and nothing in it contradicts them.
Thirty-five seconds a night short-handed is the 49th percentile — for a fourth-line forward built like this, that is a small penalty-killing role.
He is 27 and has 240 NHL games across six seasons with five organisations, and 283 career penalty minutes out of them. The hits, the blocks and the drawn penalties are three real things. The scoring rate is the lowest in the league, the penalties taken are the 98th percentile, and a club that spent 4:25 a game short-handed has signed a man who adds to that.
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.
“10.46 hits per 60 is the 90th percentile among forwards, at 6-3 and 223 pounds.”
“2.11 penalties taken per 60 is the 98th percentile among forwards and eighty-four penalty minutes came out of fifty-five games at 10:51 a night.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2021-22 · 580 minutes
- Expected goals
- 41.6%
- 6th pct
- Shot attempts
- 43%
- 6th 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: 10 for, 21 against. Expected: 16.5 and 23.2.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe report ranks him 20 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 — 55 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 · 55 games
- Top speed
- 21.8 mph
- 33rd pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.67 a game
- Distance
- 1.77 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 82.8 mph
- 30th 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 with BUF · 580 minutes at five-on-five
- Anders Bjork62%
- Cody Eakinoff the roster48%
- Arttu Ruotsalainenoff the roster25%
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
- BUF took 46.3% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 41.6% — 4.7 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- 580 minutes at five-on-five — 24th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anders Bjork | 39.0% | 44.1% | 40.8% |
| Cody Eakin | 38.4% | 43.6% | 41.7% |
| Rasmus Dahlin | 41.3% | 41.7% | 47.0% |
39.0% together, 44.1% for him apart and 40.8% for Bjork apart. He was better away from Bjork, who was no worse away from him — the pairing cost him more than it cost Bjork.
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
82 unblocked shots in 2021-22, 2 of them goals. His median goal came from 11 feet. 32% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 24% from beyond forty.