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Kiefer Sherwood
Vancouver Canucks Left Wing
Undrafted, and 27 points in his sixth season after 31 in his first five.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | ANA | 50 | 6 | 6 | 12 | +1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 60 | 10.0 | 11:22 |
| 2019-20 | ANA | 10 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 0.0 | 13:20 |
| 2020-21 | COL | 16 | 0 | 3 | 3 | +2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 0.0 | 8:48 |
| 2021-22 | COL | 11 | 1 | 1 | 2 | +3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 11.1 | 8:34 |
| 2022-23 | NSH | 32 | 7 | 6 | 13 | +4 | 30 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 57 | 12.3 | 13:36 |
| 2023-24 | NSH | 68 | 10 | 17 | 27 | +17 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 110 | 9.1 | 12:10 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 187 | 24 | 34 | 58 | +26 | 85 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 271 | 8.9 | 11:46 |
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
68 games with Nashville, 10 goals and 17 assists for 27 points, 41 penalty minutes, 12:10 a night and plus-17, with 2 game-winners. He took 52.5 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 786 minutes, the 71st percentile, and his ice went 36-20 against an expectation of 31.74-28.67.
Four goals of finishing above what the chances were worth and nine goals of goaltending above them. Twenty-seven points is a career high by fourteen and thirty-six goals for against twenty in 786 minutes is the ice of a man who was finally given some.
The Finesse Game
162 attempts at a median of 34 feet with 29 per cent of them from inside twenty and 33 per cent from beyond forty, 107 of those on goal, converted at 9.1 per cent against a career 8.86 across 271 shots.
Twenty-four career goals and 34 assists in 187 games. A thirty-four-foot median attempt with a third of them from beyond forty is a winger shooting from wherever the forecheck leaves him; the volume is the point and the accuracy is ordinary.
The Physical Game
He is 6-0 and 194 and took 41 penalty minutes.
Eighty-five career penalty minutes in 187 games. He forechecks hard and finishes every check available; forty-one penalty minutes in twelve minutes a night is the rate of a fourth-liner who has to be that to stay in the lineup.
The Intangibles
Undrafted, six seasons, and Vancouver will be his fourth organisation.
A career plus-26 in 187 games from a man nobody drafted. He had 31 points in his first five seasons put together and 27 in his sixth, and he is 29.
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
- 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.
- perimeter· shoots from the outside, by choice or because he cannot get in
33.3% of his attempts from 40 feet or beyond, 96th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
“He forechecks hard and finishes every check available; forty-one penalty minutes in twelve minutes a night is the rate of a fourth-liner who has to be that to stay in the lineup.”
“A career plus-26 in 187 games from a man nobody drafted.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 786 minutes
- Expected goals
- 52.5%
- 72nd pct
- Shot attempts
- 52.6%
- 76th 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: 36 for, 20 against. Expected: 31.7 and 28.7.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 18 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 652 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 79 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, 2023-24 · 68 games
- Top speed
- 23.0 mph
- 89th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.12 a game
- Distance
- 2.01 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 93.3 mph
- 85th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.1
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 84.5
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
2023-24 with NSH · 786 minutes at five-on-five
- Cole Smith39%
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
- NSH took 52.5% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 52.5% — level with the club he did it on.
- The role
- Fourth line, 786 minutes at five-on-five — 37th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michael McCarron | 51.8% | 53.2% | 50.1% |
| Cole Smith | 56.0% | 50.4% | 48.0% |
| Roman Josi | 56.0% | 50.4% | 54.0% |
51.8% together, 53.2% for him apart and 50.1% for McCarron 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
162 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 10 of them goals. His median goal came from 30 feet. 29% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 33% from beyond forty.