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Kyle Burroughs
Vancouver Canucks Defense
The 5th-most hits and the 3rd-fewest giveaways of 202 defencemen, on the 3rd-smallest workload at the position.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-21 | COL | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0.0 | 10:05 |
| 2021-22 | VAN | 42 | 1 | 4 | 5 | -3 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 39 | 2.6 | 12:56 |
| 2022-23 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 47 | 1 | 5 | 6 | -2 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 42 | 2.4 | 12:38 |
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
42 games, 1 goal and 4 assists at 12:56 a night, minus-3, thirty-nine penalty minutes, 39 shots. Hundred-and-ninety-sixth overall in 2013 by the Islanders — the seventh round — two seasons, 47 games, 6 points.
The Finesse Game
Twelve minutes and fifty-six seconds a night is the 3rd-smallest of the 202 defencemen who played forty games.
0.77 giveaways per 60 is the 3rd-fewest of all 202 — only Jared Spurgeon and Marcus Pettersson lost it less often — against 0.77 takeaways at the 41st. Almost nothing goes either way on his stick.
44.0 per cent of the expected goals is the 8th percentile and 47.7 per cent of the attempts the 31st, out of 44.1 per cent offensive-zone starts, the 154th-lowest of the 652 skaters who took two hundred end-zone starts.
A hard chair covers some of the gap and not the size of it. A 44 per cent chance share is the worst on this blue line by three points.
4.31 shots per 60 is the 49th percentile at 2.6 per cent, from a 53-foot median.
The Physical Game
13.47 hits per 60 is the 5th-most of all 202 defencemen and 6.52 blocks per 60 the 95th percentile, on the 3rd-smallest workload of the 202.
1.66 penalties taken per 60 is the 3rd-most of all 202 defencemen — thirty-nine penalty minutes in forty-two games at under thirteen minutes a night.
Against 0.99 drawn per 60 at the 97th percentile, so he is fouled nearly as often as he fouls, which is unusual for this kind of file.
The Intangibles
20.7 mph is the 3rd-slowest of the 192 defencemen the tracking measures and 0.2 bursts over twenty miles an hour per 60 the 3rd-fewest.
Against 8.69 miles per 60 at the 77th percentile. A great deal of ground covered and never once at speed is the clearest statement of a limit this book records.
His shot is 93.0 mph, the 36th percentile.
He is 27, a seventh-round pick, with six points in forty-seven NHL games across two seasons. The hits, the blocks, the giveaway ledger and the calls he draws are four real things. The third-slowest legs at the position, a 44 per cent chance share and the third-most penalties taken of the 202 are why the ice stops at thirteen minutes.
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
- he lacks itraised, and he does not have it
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.
“13.47 hits per 60 is the 5th-most of all 202 defencemen and 6.52 blocks per 60 the 95th percentile, on the 3rd-smallest workload of the 202.”
“1.66 penalties taken per 60 is the 3rd-most of all 202 defencemen — thirty-nine penalty minutes in forty-two games at under thirteen minutes a night.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2021-22 · 518 minutes
- Expected goals
- 44%
- 14th pct
- Shot attempts
- 47.7%
- 35th 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: 13 for, 18 against. Expected: 15.5 and 19.7.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe report ranks him 29 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 — 59 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 · 42 games
- Top speed
- 20.7 mph
- 19th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.05 a game
- Distance
- 1.87 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 93.0 mph
- 55th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.5
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 90.4
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 · 518 minutes at five-on-five
- Jack Rathbone13%
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
- VAN took 49.0% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 44.0% — 5.0 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- 518 minutes at five-on-five — 20th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elias Pettersson | 47.1% | 42.8% | 49.8% |
| Conor Garland | 54.2% | 40.2% | 54.5% |
| Vasily Podkolzin | 45.0% | 43.7% | 49.4% |
47.1% together, 42.8% for him apart and 49.8% for Pettersson apart. He was worse away from Pettersson, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Pettersson did.
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
48 unblocked shots in 2021-22, 1 of them goals. His median goal came from 54 feet. 6% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 69% from beyond forty.