Maxime Comtois
Carolina Hurricanes Left Wing
A minus-20 and the 4th percentile in expected-goal share, arriving from Anaheim on a professional tryout of a career.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | ANA | 10 | 2 | 5 | 7 | +3 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 22.2 | 14:35 |
| 2019-20 | ANA | 29 | 5 | 6 | 11 | -4 | 24 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 15.6 | 13:58 |
| 2020-21 | ANA | 55 | 16 | 17 | 33 | +3 | 40 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 94 | 17.0 | 15:28 |
| 2021-22 | ANA | 52 | 6 | 10 | 16 | -17 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 72 | 8.3 | 14:08 |
| 2022-23 | ANA | 64 | 9 | 10 | 19 | -20 | 76 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 89 | 10.1 | 13:49 |
| 2023-24 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 210 | 38 | 48 | 86 | -35 | 193 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 296 | 12.8 | 14:23 |
This Season So Far
The 2023-24 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
9 goals and 10 assists in 64 games for Anaheim — 19 points at 13:49 a night, minus-20, with 76 penalty minutes on 89 shots at 10.11 per cent.
39.6 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 805 minutes, the 4th percentile in the league. His ice went 30-46 against an expectation of 28.36-43.2, so the goals were roughly what the chances deserved and the chances were dreadful.
37.5 per cent of his even-strength shifts started in the offensive zone, the 3rd percentile. Anaheim conceded more than anyone in hockey and he was on the ice for a full share of it.
The Finesse Game
89 attempts at a median of 23 feet, 48 per cent from inside twenty. Six goals on 41 shots from inside twenty, three from the middle band, none on nineteen from beyond forty.
The shot selection is not the problem and never was. 38 goals in 210 games at a career rate of 12.84 per cent says a player who can finish, and everything around it in Anaheim says a player who could not survive the minutes he was given.
Separating those two is the whole question in his file, and this data cannot do it. A 4th-percentile expected-goal share on the worst defensive club in the league is not evidence he is bad; it is evidence that nothing useful was measured.
The Physical Game
6-2 and 210 with 76 penalty minutes, and a game built on contact. He finishes checks and he plays the wall.
2.10 miles a game at the 20th percentile and 22.4 mph at the 57th. He is not fast and does not work as hard as the club he is joining will ask.
The Intangibles
A second-round pick at 50th overall in 2017 who captained Canada at the World Juniors and was an NHL regular at 20.
He is 24 and out of chances in Anaheim. Carolina is the best possible place for a player whose numbers might be a fact about his teammates, and the honest position is that nobody knows yet, including the club.
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.
“He finishes checks and he plays the wall.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2022-23 · 805 minutes
- Expected goals
- 39.6%
- 4th pct
- Shot attempts
- 42.3%
- 6th 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: 30 for, 46 against. Expected: 28.4 and 43.2.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 9 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 141 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 54 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.
Usual linemates
2022-23 with ANA · 805 minutes at five-on-five
- Ryan Strome26%
- Sam Carrick22%
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, 2022-23
- The club
- ANA took 39.7% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 39.6% — 0.1 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third line, 805 minutes at five-on-five — 39th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cam Fowler | 43.4% | 37.3% | 41.7% |
| Kevin Shattenkirk | 41.8% | 38.8% | 42.4% |
| Simon Benoit | 39.6% | 39.6% | 36.7% |
43.4% together, 37.3% for him apart and 41.7% for Fowler apart. He was worse away from Fowler, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Fowler did.
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
119 unblocked shots in 2022-23, 9 of them goals. His median goal came from 16 feet. 48% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 23% from beyond forty.