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Michael Carcone
Arizona Coyotes Left Wing
Five-foot-nine, undrafted, an NHL debut at twenty-five, and four goals in 21 games.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | ARI | 21 | 4 | 2 | 6 | -8 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 11.1 | 12:19 |
| 2022-23 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 21 | 4 | 2 | 6 | -8 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 11.1 | 12:19 |
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
4 goals and 2 assists in 21 games — 6 points at 12:19 a night, minus-8, on 36 shots and 14 penalty minutes.
Four goals in 21 games at 11.1 per cent, in a first NHL season at twenty-five.
48.9 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 249 minutes, which is the second-highest figure of any forward on this roster and comes from a sample of 249 minutes, so it should be read for what it is. His ice went 7-15 against an expectation of 10.99-11.49.
The Finesse Game
36 attempts in 21 games is a real rate — he shoots when he gets the puck — at a median of 25 feet with 37 per cent from inside 20. The release is ordinary at 89.7 mph.
Six points in 21 games from a fourth line is a better return than most of the men above him in this book managed on twice the ice time.
The Physical Game
5-9 and 182, and 14 penalty minutes in 21 games is a small man playing as though he has to prove something, which he does.
2.0 bursts above 20 mph a game is the 84th percentile among the skaters this book tracks, at a 22.6 mph top speed. He is quick, and on a club with almost no speed that is worth something.
The Intangibles
Undrafted out of Drummondville, six seasons in the American league, and a first NHL game at twenty-five. He has been moved twice as a minor-league piece and ended up here because Arizona takes everybody.
He is 26. Twenty-one games is not a career and it is more than most players in his position ever get — and on a roster this thin, a quick undrafted winger who scored four times in three weeks will get another sixty to find out.
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 out of Drummondville, six seasons in the American league, and a first NHL game at twenty-five”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2021-22 · 249 minutes
- Expected goals
- 48.9%
- 47th pct
- Shot attempts
- 47.6%
- 34th 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: 7 for, 15 against. Expected: 11.0 and 11.5.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 25 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 649 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.
Tracked
NHL Edge, 2021-22 · 21 games
- Top speed
- 22.6 mph
- 72nd pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 2.05 a game
- Distance
- 2.00 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 89.7 mph
- 64th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.0
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 84.1
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 · 249 minutes at five-on-five
- Nate Smith31%
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
- ARI took 42.8% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 48.9% — 6.1 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- 249 minutes at five-on-five — 5th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Phil Kessel | 48.4% | 49.5% | 42.9% |
| Barrett Hayton | 54.3% | 45.5% | 45.9% |
| Shayne Gostisbehere | 43.1% | 52.1% | 42.5% |
48.4% together, 49.5% for him apart and 42.9% for Kessel apart. Kessel was worse away from him while his own share held — the pairing was doing more for Kessel 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
49 unblocked shots in 2021-22, 4 of them goals. His median goal came from 27 feet. 37% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 20% from beyond forty.