Laurent Dauphin
Arizona Coyotes Center
Drafted by this franchise in 2013, back for a third spell at twenty-seven, with 16 points in 73 NHL games in between.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-16 | ARI | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 14.3 | 11:19 |
| 2016-17 | ARI | 24 | 2 | 1 | 3 | -2 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 32 | 6.3 | 10:55 |
| 2017-18 | ARI | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 | 7:14 |
| 2018-19 | ARI | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.0 | 12:19 |
| 2021-22 | MTL | 38 | 4 | 8 | 12 | -10 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 8.0 | 13:18 |
| 2022-23 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 73 | 7 | 9 | 16 | -14 | 43 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 92 | 7.6 | 12:07 |
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
With Montreal. 4 goals and 8 assists in 38 games — 12 points at 13:18 a night, minus-10, on 50 shots and 25 penalty minutes.
Thirty-eight games and twelve points is easily the best NHL season of a career that has taken nine years to produce 73 games.
41.0 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 457 minutes. His ice went 18-28 against an expectation of 16.72-24.03 — a goal of scoring above what the chances predicted and four more conceded than they did. Montreal finished 32nd in the league last season, so the figure describes the club at least as much as the man.
The Finesse Game
50 attempts at a median of 21 feet with 47 per cent from inside 20, converting at 8 per cent. He goes to the right places and does not finish, which is the difference between a fourth-line centre and a third-line one and has been the story of nine professional seasons.
16 points in 73 career games. The offensive ceiling is settled.
The Physical Game
6-0 and 186, which is light, and 25 penalty minutes in 38 games says he competes rather than that he punishes. He is a fourth-line centre who takes a defensive-zone draw and kills a penalty, which is the whole of the job description and he does it without complaint.
The Intangibles
Thirty-ninth overall in 2013 by the Phoenix Coyotes, which is this club under an earlier name, and he is now returning to it after two seasons here in his early twenties and spells in Chicago’s and Montreal’s organisations since.
He is 27. Arizona is a place where a nine-year professional gets forty games because there is nobody ahead of him, and Dauphin has spent his whole career being exactly the player that circumstance rewards.
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.
- ordinaryraised, and called ordinary
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 is a fourth-line centre who takes a defensive-zone draw and kills a penalty, which is the whole of the job description”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2021-22 · 457 minutes
- Expected goals
- 41%
- 5th pct
- Shot attempts
- 46.7%
- 26th 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: 18 for, 28 against. Expected: 16.7 and 24.0.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 12 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 — 53 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 · 38 games
- Top speed
- 22.2 mph
- 55th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.13 a game
- Distance
- 2.12 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 91.1 mph
- 71st pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.0
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 84.1
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 with MTL · 457 minutes at five-on-five
- Mike Hoffman47%
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
- MTL took 46.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 41.0% — 5.2 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third line, 457 minutes at five-on-five — 15th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mike Hoffman | 39.5% | 42.1% | 44.1% |
| Alexander Romanov | 40.9% | 41.1% | 47.2% |
| Jeff Petry | 37.0% | 42.5% | 50.0% |
39.5% together, 42.1% for him apart and 44.1% for Hoffman apart. Hoffman was better away from him while his own share held, which is a mark against him more than for 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
64 unblocked shots in 2021-22, 4 of them goals. His median goal came from 12 feet. 47% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 20% from beyond forty.