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MacKenzie Entwistle
Chicago Blackhawks Right Wing
The 3rd percentile in expected-goal share, and ten points in 66 games.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-21 | CHI | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 16.7 | 9:49 |
| 2021-22 | CHI | 55 | 5 | 7 | 12 | -16 | 23 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 34 | 14.7 | 10:15 |
| 2022-23 | CHI | 66 | 4 | 6 | 10 | -11 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 8.0 | 11:55 |
| 2023-24 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 126 | 10 | 14 | 24 | -26 | 39 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 90 | 11.1 | 11:06 |
This Season So Far
The 2023-24 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
4 goals and 6 assists in 66 games — 10 points at 11:55 a night, minus-11, with 14 penalty minutes on 50 shots at 8.00 per cent.
39.0 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 689 minutes, the 3rd percentile. His ice went 17-30 against an expectation of 16.82-26.27.
37.7 per cent of his even-strength shifts started in the offensive zone, the 5th percentile. He was given the worst available minutes on the worst possession club in the league, and the number reflects both facts.
The Finesse Game
50 attempts at a median of 30 feet, 31 per cent from inside twenty. One goal on thirteen shots from inside twenty, three from the middle band, none on thirteen from beyond forty.
10 goals and 24 points in 126 career games. There is very little offensive game here and 50 shots across 66 appearances is the clearest statement of it.
The Physical Game
6-3 and 203 with 14 penalty minutes, which is a low number for a big fourth-line forward and suggests he is not finishing much.
1.96 miles a game at the 14th percentile, 22.4 mph at the 55th, 0.6 bursts at the 32nd. Nothing in the tracking distinguishes him.
The Intangibles
A third-round pick by Arizona in 2017 who came to Chicago in a trade and has been given three seasons of fourth-line minutes.
He is 24 with 126 games. On a rebuilding club the fourth line is where the roster gets sorted, and 10 points in 66 games is not an argument for keeping the job.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2022-23 · 689 minutes
- Expected goals
- 39%
- 3rd pct
- Shot attempts
- 42.2%
- 5th 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: 17 for, 30 against. Expected: 16.8 and 26.3.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 10 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 141 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.
Usual linemates
2022-23 · 689 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, 2022-23
- The club
- CHI took 42.4% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 39.0% — 3.4 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third line, 689 minutes at five-on-five — 30th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reese Johnson | 34.6% | 41.5% | 37.8% |
| Connor Murphy | 39.4% | 38.9% | 42.3% |
| Caleb Jones | 43.6% | 36.6% | 45.7% |
34.6% together, 41.5% for him apart and 37.8% for Johnson apart. Both were better apart than together — the pairing was doing neither of them any favours.
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
81 unblocked shots in 2022-23, 4 of them goals. His median goal came from 28 feet. 31% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 25% from beyond forty.