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Martin Fehérváry
Washington Capitals Defense
The 11th-most hits of 202 defencemen and the 9th-most sprints of 192, in his first full season.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 | WSH | 6 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0.0 | 15:59 |
| 2021-22 | WSH | 79 | 8 | 9 | 17 | +15 | 26 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 96 | 8.3 | 19:39 |
| 2022-23 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 85 | 8 | 10 | 18 | +13 | 32 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 103 | 7.8 | 19:23 |
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
79 games, 8 goals and 9 assists at 19:39 a night, plus-15, twenty-six penalty minutes, 96 shots, one short-handed goal and two game-winners. Forty-sixth overall in 2018 by Washington — the second round — two seasons, 85 games, 18 points.
The Finesse Game
Eight goals from ninety-six shots is 8.3 per cent, the 19th-highest conversion of the 202 defencemen who played forty games — and 3.71 shots per 60 is the 33rd percentile. Eight goals off that volume is a rate that will fall.
A 49-foot median with sixteen per cent of his attempts from inside twenty feet, the 78th percentile.
0.639 even-strength points per 60 is the 35th-lowest of the 202 and none of his seventeen points came on the power play, off two seconds a night with the man advantage.
0.54 takeaways per 60 is the 13th percentile, which is the file’s clearest weakness.
48.4 per cent of the expected goals is the 39th percentile and 48.9 per cent of the attempts the 40th, out of 57.2 per cent offensive-zone starts, the 120th-highest of the 652 skaters who took two hundred end-zone starts.
His ice went 60-56 against an expectation of 56.4-60.18 — three and a half ahead in front and four fewer against, which for a 22-year-old in his first full season is a good deal better than the shares suggest.
The wowy is the caution. Alex Ovechkin took 45.0 per cent of the attempts with him and 52.1 apart; Evgeny Kuznetsov 45.6 with and 52.5 apart; Tom Wilson 43.4 with and 54.5 apart. Three of the club’s top forwards were seven points of share better away from him.
The Physical Game
9.70 hits per 60 is the 11th-most of all 202 defencemen who played forty games, at 6-2 and 215 pounds and 23 years old.
4.52 blocks per 60 is the 61st percentile and 1:47 a night short-handed the 50th, and twenty-six penalty minutes came out of seventy-nine games.
The Intangibles
4.135 bursts over twenty miles an hour per 60 is the 9th-most of the 192 tracked defencemen, at a 22.8 mph top speed that is the 15th-fastest.
8.36 miles per 60 is the 38th percentile, so the sprints are not coming out of volume — he goes hard in bursts and covers ordinary ground.
He is 23, a second-round pick of this club, born in Bratislava, with eighteen points in eighty-five games. The hits, the speed and the sprint count are three real things at 23 and all three are rare together. The takeaway rate, the point rate and the three wowy lines above are why nineteen and a half minutes is where he should stay for now.
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.
- measuredcomputed here from the season's own data
- 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.
- durable· was available
79 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
“9.70 hits per 60 is the 11th-most of all 202 defencemen who played forty games, at 6-2 and 215 pounds and 23 years old.”
“4.135 bursts over twenty miles an hour per 60 is the 9th-most of the 192 tracked defencemen, at a 22.8 mph top speed that is the 15th-fastest.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2021-22 · 1,424 minutes
- Expected goals
- 48.4%
- 42nd pct
- Shot attempts
- 48.9%
- 44th 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: 60 for, 56 against. Expected: 56.4 and 60.2.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe report ranks him 49 points above where the numbers do. 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 — 72 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 · 79 games
- Top speed
- 22.8 mph
- 94th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.35 a game
- Distance
- 2.74 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 90.6 mph
- 40th 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 · 1408 minutes at five-on-five
- John Carlson80%
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
- WSH took 51.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 48.4% — 2.7 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- First pair, 1,424 minutes at five-on-five — 95th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| John Carlson | 49.0% | 46.3% | 53.9% |
| Alex Ovechkin | 45.0% | 50.3% | 52.1% |
| Evgeny Kuznetsov | 45.6% | 49.8% | 52.5% |
49.0% together, 46.3% for him apart and 53.9% for Carlson apart. Carlson 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
122 unblocked shots in 2021-22, 8 of them goals. His median goal came from 24 feet. 13% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 66% from beyond forty.