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K'Andre Miller
New York Rangers Defense
Six foot five, 105 points in 294 games, and the worst goal differential on a first-place club.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-21 | NYR | 53 | 5 | 7 | 12 | +9 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 62 | 8.1 | 21:07 |
| 2021-22 | NYR | 82 | 7 | 13 | 20 | +23 | 24 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 102 | 6.9 | 20:36 |
| 2022-23 | NYR | 79 | 9 | 34 | 43 | +12 | 47 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 113 | 8.0 | 21:57 |
| 2023-24 | NYR | 80 | 8 | 22 | 30 | +5 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 96 | 8.3 | 21:34 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 294 | 29 | 76 | 105 | +49 | 140 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 373 | 7.8 | 21:19 |
This Season So Far
The 2024-25 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
80 games, 8 goals and 22 assists for 30 points, 49 penalty minutes, 21:34 a night and plus-5. He took 48.4 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,487 minutes, the 41st percentile, and his ice went 56-68 against an expectation of 57.00-60.81.
Level with the chances at one end and seven more conceded than they called for at the other. The minus-12 at five-on-five is the worst on a club that finished first in the league, and the chance share underneath it was slightly below even.
The Finesse Game
151 attempts at a median of 49 feet with 68 per cent from beyond 40, 96 on goal, converted at 8.3 per cent against a career 7.77.
76 career assists in 294 games. He carries the puck out of his own zone at 6-5 better than almost anybody that size in the league, and the decision at the far blue line is the part that is not finished. There is no power-play role.
The Physical Game
He is 6-5 and 210 and defends with reach and skating rather than with weight.
140 career penalty minutes in 294 games is a moderate rate. He closes gaps early, clears the crease, and blocks shots, and he does not hit to hurt at a size where he easily could.
The Intangibles
Twenty-second overall in 2018 out of St. Paul, Minnesota, two years at Wisconsin, four seasons, and 105 points in 294 games at a career plus-49.
He is 24 and takes twenty-one and a half minutes a night on the top pair. The skating at 6-5 is a rare thing and the reads are the four-year project.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 1,487 minutes
- Expected goals
- 48.4%
- 41st pct
- Shot attempts
- 48.4%
- 39th 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: 56 for, 68 against. Expected: 57.0 and 60.8.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe report ranks him 43 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 415 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 73 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
2023-24 · 1487 minutes at five-on-five
- Jacob Trouba67%
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, 2023-24
- The club
- NYR took 50.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 48.4% — 1.7 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- First pair, 1,487 minutes at five-on-five — 97th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jacob Trouba | 48.2% | 48.9% | 46.6% |
| Mika Zibanejad | 49.0% | 48.1% | 50.5% |
| Alexis Lafrenière | 54.5% | 45.6% | 56.4% |
48.2% together, 48.9% for him apart and 46.6% for Trouba 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
151 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 8 of them goals. His median goal came from 37 feet. 11% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 68% from beyond forty.