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Kyle Palmieri

Forty-two per cent of the attempts away from Adam Pelech and 61.8 per cent alongside him, on the 6th-percentile takeaway rate.

Season	Team	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	PP	SH	GW	S	S%	TOI

2010-11	ANA	10	1	0	1	-1	0	0	0	0	10	10.0	8:41
2011-12	ANA	18	4	3	7	+3	6	0	0	0	34	11.8	11:31
2012-13	ANA	42	10	11	21	+2	9	2	0	5	92	10.9	12:20
2013-14	ANA	71	14	17	31	+9	38	0	0	4	147	9.5	11:57
2014-15	ANA	57	14	15	29	-2	37	5	0	4	112	12.5	14:06
2015-16	NJD	82	30	27	57	+3	39	11	0	4	222	13.5	17:48
2016-17	NJD	80	26	27	53	+2	46	8	1	3	192	13.5	17:21
2017-18	NJD	62	24	20	44	-1	30	11	0	5	181	13.3	17:19
2018-19	NJD	74	27	23	50	-9	42	11	0	2	224	12.0	18:09
2019-20	NJD	65	25	20	45	-4	41	11	0	3	155	16.1	17:07
2020-21	NJD/NYI	51	10	11	21	-5	20	2	1	2	115	8.7	16:35
2021-22	NYI	69	15	18	33	0	57	2	0	6	156	9.6	15:37
2022-23 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	681	200	192	392	-3	365	63	2	38	1640	12.2	15:48

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

69 games, 15 goals and 18 assists for 33 points at 15:37 a night, even, fifty-seven penalty minutes, 156 shots. Twenty-sixth overall in 2009 by Anaheim, twelve seasons, 681 games, 200 career goals.

Thirty-three points is his lowest full-season total since 2014-15. He had scored between 24 and 30 in each of five seasons in New Jersey.

The Finesse Game

8.68 shots per 60 is the 72nd percentile at 9.6 per cent, the 33rd. His career rate across 1,640 shots is 12.2 per cent. The volume is intact and the finishing fell away.

Fifty-nine per cent of his shots came from the slot at a 21-foot median — the 76th and 23rd percentiles, and the same places he has always shot from.

1.70 even-strength points per 60 is the 44th percentile and eighteen per cent of his points came on the power play.

0.89 takeaways per 60 is the 6th percentile.

49.5 per cent of the expected goals is joint-2nd among Islander forwards, behind only Oliver Wahlstrom, out of 45.9 per cent offensive-zone starts, the 203rd-lowest of 652 skaters. His ice went 44-36 against an expectation of 39.73-40.52.

The pair file is where this gets interesting. Alongside Adam Pelech across 633 attempts he took 61.8 per cent of them; apart from Pelech, 42.4. Pelech apart from him was 47.7. That is the largest single-pair effect on this roster and it runs entirely one way.

The Physical Game

4.29 hits per 60 is the 56th percentile and 1.00 blocks the 17th.

1.28 penalties taken per 60 is the 86th percentile against 1.00 drawn, and fifty-seven penalty minutes came out of sixty-nine games — the most of any Islander forward who is not on the fourth line.

The Intangibles

22.4 mph is the 50th percentile, 4.0 bursts per 60 the 35th, 9.38 miles per 60 the 28th. Ordinary speed, below-average sprinting and ground covered.

He is 31 with 200 career goals. The shot volume and the locations say a 25-goal winger; the season produced fifteen. What the file cannot separate is how much of the 61.8 per cent beside Pelech is his and how much is the best defenceman on the club.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2021-22 · 948 minutes

Expected goals: 49.5%; 53rd pct
Shot attempts: 47.7%; 35th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 44 for, 36 against. Expected: 39.7 and 40.5.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

38th

Numbers

53rd

The two rank him within 15 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 649 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 58 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 · 69 games

Top speed: 22.4 mph; 64th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 1.04 a game
Distance: 2.44 miles a game
Hardest shot: 92.8 mph; 81st pct

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 · 937 minutes at five-on-five

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: NYI took 46.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 49.5% — 2.6 above the club he did it on.
The role: Second line, 948 minutes at five-on-five — 56th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Jean-Gabriel Pageau	47.4%	51.1%	46.4%
Adam Pelech	61.8%	42.4%	47.7%
Ryan Pulock	48.5%	50.0%	47.9%

47.4% together, 51.1% for him apart and 46.4% for Pageau apart. He was better away from Pageau, who was no worse away from him — the pairing cost him more than it cost Pageau.

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

215 unblocked shots in 2021-22, 17 of them goals. His median goal came from 17 feet. 47% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 12% from beyond forty.