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Martin Necas
Carolina Hurricanes Center
Two hundred and thirty-one shots, twenty-four goals, and thirteen goals missing from his ice.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-18 | CAR | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 6:54 |
| 2018-19 | CAR | 7 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 16.7 | 10:01 |
| 2019-20 | CAR | 64 | 16 | 20 | 36 | -6 | 20 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 88 | 18.2 | 14:10 |
| 2020-21 | CAR | 53 | 14 | 27 | 41 | +25 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 114 | 12.3 | 17:17 |
| 2021-22 | CAR | 78 | 14 | 26 | 40 | +5 | 32 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 159 | 8.8 | 16:11 |
| 2022-23 | CAR | 82 | 28 | 43 | 71 | +5 | 32 | 9 | 0 | 5 | 240 | 11.7 | 18:25 |
| 2023-24 | CAR | 77 | 24 | 29 | 53 | -9 | 42 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 231 | 10.4 | 17:21 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 362 | 97 | 146 | 243 | +20 | 138 | 28 | 3 | 20 | 838 | 11.6 | 16:36 |
This Season So Far
The 2024-25 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
24 goals and 29 assists in 77 games — 53 points at 17:21 a night, minus-9, with 8 power-play goals and 3 game-winners on 231 shots, converting at 10.39 per cent, and 42 penalty minutes.
Two hundred and thirty-one attempts is the largest volume on the roster and 10.39 per cent is the lowest conversion of any regular forward.
53.4 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,111 minutes, the 78th percentile. His ice went 46-51 against an expectation of 54.94-47.94 — thirteen goals of scoring missing, and eleven fewer conceded than the chances predicted.
The Finesse Game
231 attempts at a median of 33 feet, with 28 per cent from beyond 40 and 26 per cent from inside 20, converting at 10.39 per cent against a career 11.58.
The skating is the top end of this roster and possibly of the league — he enters the offensive zone with the puck under control at speed, which on a club whose entries are otherwise a chip and a chase is the rarest thing it has. He carries it and he gains the line.
29 assists. The passing is good and the decision at the end of the rush is the weakest part of the game — he takes the shot from thirty-three feet more often than the play deserves.
The Physical Game
6-3 and 195 and light for the height. He does not forecheck with force and he does not win pucks on the wall, and he goes around contact rather than through it.
42 penalty minutes in 77 games and 138 in 362 for his career. He does not agitate and he does not retaliate.
The Intangibles
Twelfth overall in 2017, out of Brno, and 362 games and 243 points at 25, all of them here.
He is 25 and had a career high in shots and a career-low conversion. On a club that finished last in the league in finishing, the man who took the most attempts and scored on the fewest of them is the season in one player, and the direction of that correction is the reason to be optimistic about him.
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
- he lacks itraised, and he does not have it
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.
“**The skating is the top end of this roster and possibly of the league** — he enters the offensive zone with the puck under control at speed, which on a club whose entries are otherwise a chip and a chase is the rarest thing it has. **He carries it and he gains the line.**”
“**He does not forecheck with force and he does not win pucks on the wall**, and he goes around contact rather than through it.”
“**He does not forecheck with force and he does not win pucks on the wall**, and he goes around contact rather than through it.”
“He does not agitate and he does not retaliate.”
“He does not agitate and he does not retaliate.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 1,111 minutes
- Expected goals
- 53.4%
- 79th pct
- Shot attempts
- 58.2%
- 97th 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: 46 for, 51 against. Expected: 54.9 and 47.9.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 22 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 652 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 71 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, 2023-24 · 77 games
- Top speed
- 23.7 mph
- 98th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 4.70 a game
- Distance
- 3.10 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 99.9 mph
- 99th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.1
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 84.5
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
2023-24 · 1111 minutes at five-on-five
- Jack Drury34%
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, 2023-24
- The club
- CAR took 56.6% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 53.4% — 3.2 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third line, 1,111 minutes at five-on-five — 73rd percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dmitry Orlov | 52.5% | 54.0% | 60.6% |
| Jack Drury | 59.4% | 50.8% | 56.8% |
| Jaccob Slavin | 55.9% | 52.3% | 58.5% |
52.5% together, 54.0% for him apart and 60.6% for Orlov apart. Orlov 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
321 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 25 of them goals. His median goal came from 25 feet. 26% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 28% from beyond forty.