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Kurtis MacDermid
New Jersey Devils Left Wing
Three hundred and sixty-eight career penalty minutes in 265 games, at four minutes and fifty seconds a night.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-18 | LAK | 34 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -4 | 57 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 5.3 | 11:36 |
| 2018-19 | LAK | 11 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -1 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0.0 | 9:21 |
| 2019-20 | LAK | 45 | 3 | 5 | 8 | -9 | 47 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 51 | 5.9 | 13:43 |
| 2020-21 | LAK | 28 | 2 | 2 | 4 | -14 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 12.5 | 13:21 |
| 2021-22 | COL | 58 | 2 | 3 | 5 | +1 | 89 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 46 | 4.3 | 7:24 |
| 2022-23 | COL | 44 | 1 | 5 | 6 | -1 | 55 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 20 | 5.0 | 8:20 |
| 2023-24 | COL/NJD | 45 | 2 | 1 | 3 | +4 | 73 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 12.5 | 4:50 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 265 | 11 | 20 | 31 | -24 | 368 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 173 | 6.4 | 9:26 |
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
45 games in Colorado, 2 goals and 1 assist for 3 points, 73 penalty minutes, 4:50 a night and plus-4. He took 36.9 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 217 minutes and his ice went 7-3 against an expectation of 4.44-7.61, all of it with the Avalanche.
That 36.9 per cent is the lowest figure in this chapter by a distance, and 217 minutes is far too small a sample to argue about. Four minutes and fifty seconds a night is the shortest shift-time of anybody in this edition who played forty games.
The Finesse Game
16 shots in 45 games, converted at 12.5 per cent against a career 6.36.
20 career assists in 265 games. Thirty-one points in seven seasons is the complete offensive record and none of it is why he is employed.
The Physical Game
He hits harder than almost anybody in the league at 6-5 and 233, and 368 career penalty minutes in 265 games at under ten minutes a night is among the highest rates in hockey.
He will fight anybody, takes liberties on anyone who has touched a teammate, and cannot be moved from anywhere he decides to stand. This is the entire job description.
The Intangibles
Undrafted, out of Quebec City, seven seasons across three organisations, and 31 points in 265 games.
He is 30 and plays under five minutes a night. Whether a roster spot for this is worth having is an argument about hockey rather than about him; he is very good at what he was hired 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.
“He hits harder than almost anybody in the league at 6-5 and 233, and 368 career penalty minutes in 265 games at under ten minutes a night is among the highest rates in hockey.”
“He will fight anybody, takes liberties on anyone who has touched a teammate, and cannot be moved from anywhere he decides to stand.”
“He will fight anybody, takes liberties on anyone who has touched a teammate, and cannot be moved from anywhere he decides to stand.”
“He will fight anybody, takes liberties on anyone who has touched a teammate, and cannot be moved from anywhere he decides to stand.”
“Undrafted, out of Quebec City, seven seasons across three organisations, and 31 points in 265 games.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 217 minutes
- Expected goals
- 36.9%
- 1st pct
- Shot attempts
- 39.1%
- 1st 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: 7 for, 3 against. Expected: 4.4 and 7.6.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 3 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 — 54 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 · 45 games
- Top speed
- 22.3 mph
- 57th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.47 a game
- Distance
- 0.79 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 75.4 mph
- 10th 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 COL · 147 minutes at five-on-five
- Fredrik Olofssonoff the roster76%
- Jason Polin17%
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
- NJD took 50.7% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 36.9% — 13.8 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- 217 minutes at five-on-five — 1st percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fredrik Olofsson | 40.0% | 33.7% | 44.5% |
| Josh Manson | 36.3% | 37.1% | 53.2% |
| Joel Kiviranta | 36.5% | 37.0% | 48.6% |
40.0% together, 33.7% for him apart and 44.5% for Olofsson apart. He was the one being carried: the share went with Olofsson and did not follow him.
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
19 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 2 of them goals. His median goal came from 24 feet. 47% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 21% from beyond forty.