Marián Studenic
Dallas Stars Right Wing
Thirty-three games across two clubs, and 56 per cent of his attempts came from inside twenty feet.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-21 | NJD | 8 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 14.3 | 10:47 |
| 2021-22 | NJD/DAL | 33 | 2 | 2 | 4 | -7 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 42 | 4.8 | 11:09 |
| 2022-23 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 41 | 3 | 3 | 6 | -9 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 49 | 6.1 | 11:05 |
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
2 goals and 2 assists in 33 games split between New Jersey and Dallas — a minus-7 and 6 penalty minutes at 11:09 a night.
Thirty-three games is well short of the 40 this book requires for a peer group, so what follows is raw. 52.1 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 358 minutes, which is a good number on a small sample from two bad situations. His ice went 9-15 against an expectation of 15.2-13.99 — six fewer goals for than the chances promised and one more against, in six hours of hockey.
The Finesse Game
Forty-two shots in thirty-three games. The median travels 18 feet and 56 per cent came from inside twenty — the closest shot chart of any Dallas forward, and it produced two goals.
85.2 mph off the stick, which is soft, with the standing caveat that a maximum is a season best and a third of a season is a third of the chances at one.
No power-play time worth the name. Four points in thirty-three games.
The Physical Game
6-1 and 190.
22.7 mph and 3.0 bursts over 20 mph a game — quick, and the sprint rate is the interesting half: at eleven minutes a night he was above twenty miles an hour three times a game. 1.81 miles a game is very little ground, which is what eleven minutes buys.
Six penalty minutes in thirty-three games.
The Intangibles
One hundred and forty-third overall in 2017, the fifth round, and 41 NHL games across two seasons at 23.
With Jamie Benn he took 58.9 per cent of the chances over 172 attempts and with Tyler Seguin 61.7 over 125. Both are fragments — a hundred and fifty attempts is under two hours of hockey — and both are better than either of those men managed over a season. The right way to read that is that it is too small to read.
A fifth-round winger with 41 games at 23, on a club with a settled top six. The path is the fourth line and the number that would justify it is the shot chart, which says he gets to the middle. Whether he can do it for a season is not something 358 minutes can answer.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2021-22 · 358 minutes
- Expected goals
- 52.1%
- 71st pct
- Shot attempts
- 48.2%
- 39th 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: 9 for, 15 against. Expected: 15.2 and 14.0.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 69 points above where the report does. 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 — 45 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 · 33 games
- Top speed
- 22.7 mph
- 79th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 2.97 a game
- Distance
- 1.81 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 85.2 mph
- 40th 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 NJD · 194 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
- DAL took 51.0% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 52.1% — 1.1 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- 358 minutes at five-on-five — 11th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jamie Benn | 58.9% | 49.3% | 46.9% |
| Tyler Seguin | 61.7% | 49.3% | 45.5% |
| Ryan Suter | 47.9% | 53.3% | 51.7% |
58.9% together, 49.3% for him apart and 46.9% for Benn apart. Both were worse apart, so whatever the two of them had together was doing real work.
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
54 unblocked shots in 2021-22, 2 of them goals. His median goal came from 38 feet. 56% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 11% from beyond forty.