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Mark Giordano
Toronto Maple Leafs Defense
A 55-foot median shot at the 94th percentile, undrafted, in a sixteenth season at 38.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005-06 | CGY | 7 | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0.0 | 12:05 |
| 2006-07 | CGY | 48 | 7 | 8 | 15 | +7 | 36 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 49 | 14.3 | 13:27 |
| 2008-09 | CGY | 58 | 2 | 17 | 19 | +2 | 59 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 82 | 2.4 | 16:13 |
| 2009-10 | CGY | 82 | 11 | 19 | 30 | +17 | 81 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 111 | 9.9 | 20:50 |
| 2010-11 | CGY | 82 | 8 | 35 | 43 | -8 | 67 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 165 | 4.9 | 23:08 |
| 2011-12 | CGY | 61 | 9 | 18 | 27 | 0 | 75 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 125 | 7.2 | 23:01 |
| 2012-13 | CGY | 47 | 4 | 11 | 15 | -7 | 40 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 58 | 6.9 | 23:10 |
| 2013-14 | CGY | 64 | 14 | 33 | 47 | +12 | 63 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 180 | 7.8 | 25:14 |
| 2014-15 | CGY | 61 | 11 | 37 | 48 | +13 | 37 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 157 | 7.0 | 25:10 |
| 2015-16 | CGY | 82 | 21 | 35 | 56 | -5 | 54 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 212 | 9.9 | 24:48 |
| 2016-17 | CGY | 81 | 12 | 27 | 39 | +22 | 59 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 151 | 8.0 | 23:35 |
| 2017-18 | CGY | 82 | 13 | 25 | 38 | 0 | 63 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 214 | 6.1 | 24:47 |
| 2018-19 | CGY | 78 | 17 | 57 | 74 | +39 | 69 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 221 | 7.7 | 24:14 |
| 2019-20 | CGY | 60 | 5 | 26 | 31 | +2 | 34 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 157 | 3.2 | 23:53 |
| 2020-21 | CGY | 56 | 9 | 17 | 26 | +5 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 142 | 6.3 | 22:57 |
| 2021-22 | SEA/TOR | 75 | 8 | 27 | 35 | -9 | 57 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 151 | 5.3 | 20:52 |
| 2022-23 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 1024 | 151 | 393 | 544 | +92 | 816 | 52 | 12 | 24 | 2180 | 6.9 | 22:32 |
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
75 games between Seattle and Toronto, 8 goals and 27 assists at 20:53 a night, minus-9, fifty-seven penalty minutes, 151 shots. Two of the eight came short-handed and none on the power play. Undrafted, and 1,024 NHL games and 544 points across sixteen seasons out of it.
The Finesse Game
His median shot travels fifty-five feet, the 94th percentile among the 202 defencemen who played forty games, and six per cent of his attempts come from the slot, the 12th.
He shoots from the blue line and stays there, and 5.79 shots per 60 is the 80th percentile — eight goals at 5.3 per cent.
Thirty-four per cent of his points came on the power play, the 83rd percentile, off 2:28 a night at the 85th, which for a 38-year-old on his second club of the season is a considerable role.
53.9 per cent of the expected goals is the 81st percentile and 52.7 per cent of the attempts the 76th, out of 52.6 per cent offensive-zone starts, the 251st-highest of 652 skaters.
Those shares are split between the club that finished 30th in the standings and the club that finished 4th, so they are an average of two very different sets of minutes.
The Physical Game
5.33 blocks per 60 is the 81st percentile among defencemen, at 38 years old on a 20:53 shift.
2.87 hits per 60 is the 34th percentile and fifty-seven penalty minutes came out of seventy-five games — 816 across a 1,024-game career.
The Intangibles
21.5 mph is the 26th percentile, 1.4 bursts over twenty miles an hour per 60 the 47th and 8.12 miles per 60 the 15th.
Two of those three are in the bottom quarter of the position and the third is ordinary, which at 38 is neither surprising nor a reason to look away from what he still does.
His shot is 97.3 mph, the 75th percentile. The velocity is intact and the legs are not.
He is 38, undrafted, with 544 points in 1,024 games across sixteen seasons. Thirty-five points, seventy-five games, the blocks and two and a half minutes of power play at 38 are the case. The skating file says how this ends and it does not say when, and there is nothing in the record about leadership, which is the half of the reputation this book cannot measure.
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
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.
“Undrafted, and 1,024 NHL games and 544 points across sixteen seasons out of it.”
“5.33 blocks per 60 is the 81st percentile among defencemen, at 38 years old on a 20:53 shift.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2021-22 · 1,209 minutes
- Expected goals
- 53.9%
- 81st pct
- Shot attempts
- 52.7%
- 76th 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: 51 for, 56 against. Expected: 46.7 and 40.0.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 0 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 — 68 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 · 75 games
- Top speed
- 21.5 mph
- 46th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.48 a game
- Distance
- 2.82 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 97.3 mph
- 83rd 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 with SEA · 897 minutes at five-on-five
- Adam Larsson24%
- Carson Soucy20%
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
- TOR took 54.8% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 53.9% — 0.9 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- 1,209 minutes at five-on-five — 86th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jordan Eberle | 52.2% | 54.5% | 48.8% |
| Jamie Oleksiak | 56.7% | 53.1% | 49.8% |
| Alex Wennberg | 51.9% | 54.4% | 47.9% |
52.2% together, 54.5% for him apart and 48.8% for Eberle apart. Eberle was worse away from him while his own share held — the pairing was doing more for Eberle 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
219 unblocked shots in 2021-22, 8 of them goals. His median goal came from 36 feet. 4% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 80% from beyond forty.