Mark Scheifele

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

67 games, 29 goals and 41 assists at 21:08 a night, minus-17, twenty-three penalty minutes, 159 shots, seven power-play goals and three game-winners. Seventh overall in 2011 by Winnipeg, eleven seasons, 642 games, 577 points.

The Finesse Game

Forty-one assists in sixty-seven games and 2.60 even-strength points per 60, the 84th percentile, off the 39th-percentile shot rate.

Twenty-nine goals from 159 shots is 18.2 per cent, the 24th-highest conversion of the 393 forwards who played forty games — and 6.74 shots per 60 is the 39th percentile. He is the highest-scoring low-volume shooter in this chapter and one of the highest in the league.

Fifty-five per cent of his attempts came from inside twenty feet at a 23-foot median.

21:08 a night is the 5th-largest workload of the 393, off 3:28 on the power play at the 95th percentile, and twenty-seven per cent of his points came there.

48.6 per cent of the expected goals is the 39th percentile and 50.0 per cent of the attempts the 52nd, out of 59.0 per cent offensive-zone starts, the 72nd-highest of 652 skaters — a genuinely soft chair, and shares that come out just underneath it.

And the minus-17 wants care. His five-on-five ice went 56-58 against an expectation of 50.37-53.23 — five and a half better than the model in front and five worse behind it. A minus-17 does not come out of that ledger; it comes out of special teams and empty nets, and the five-on-five record is very nearly even.

2.54 giveaways per 60 is the 93rd percentile.

The Physical Game

6-3 and 207 pounds, and twenty-three penalty minutes in sixty-seven games.

1.53 hits per 60 is the 11th percentile and 1.99 blocks the 65th, against four seconds a night short-handed.

0.89 penalties drawn per 60 against 0.42 taken is a net of plus 0.47, the 84th percentile.

The Intangibles

22.6 mph is the 59th percentile among the 365 tracked forwards, 3.6 bursts over twenty miles an hour per 60 the 27th and 9.80 miles per 60 the 62nd. His shot is 94.5 mph, the 81st percentile.

Slow to sprint and ordinary everywhere else, at twenty-one minutes a night, which is the shape of a centre who wins with position rather than pace.

He is 29, seventh overall in 2011, with 577 points in 642 games and a career plus-62. Seventy points in sixty-seven games is a point a game and the sixth time he has scored at that rate. Fifteen games lost and an 18.2 per cent conversion are the two numbers that will not repeat together.