Kiefer Sherwood

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.