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Michael Eyssimont
Tampa Bay Lightning Center
One hundred and four penalty minutes in 81 games, from an eleven-minute fourth-liner.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | WPG | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 | 5:49 |
| 2022-23 | WPG/SJS/TBL | 54 | 5 | 10 | 15 | +3 | 63 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 124 | 4.0 | 12:15 |
| 2023-24 | TBL | 81 | 11 | 14 | 25 | +7 | 104 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 149 | 7.4 | 11:51 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 136 | 16 | 24 | 40 | +10 | 167 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 274 | 5.8 | 11:58 |
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
81 games, 11 goals and 14 assists for 25 points, 2 on the power play, 104 penalty minutes, 11:51 a night and plus-7, with 2 game-winners. He took 49.4 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 927 minutes, the 45th percentile, and his ice went 34-27 against an expectation of 33.54-34.37.
Level with the chances at the offensive end and seven goals of goaltending above them at the other. The plus-7 is one of the few positive figures on this club and it came from the fourth line.
The Finesse Game
205 attempts at a median of 28 feet with 31 per cent of them from inside twenty, 140 of those on goal, converted at 7.4 per cent against a career 5.84 across 274 shots.
Sixteen career goals in 136 games. He shoots more than a fourth-line winger normally does — 205 attempts at eleven and a half minutes a night is a very high rate — and converts at well under the league average, which is the whole shape of him.
The Physical Game
He is 6-0 and 195 and took 104 penalty minutes in 81 games.
167 career penalty minutes in 136 games. He fights, he finishes every check available, and he is on the ice for eleven minutes precisely because of it; a hundred and four penalty minutes from a fourth-liner is a man doing the job he was hired for.
The Intangibles
One hundred and forty-second overall in 2016 by Los Angeles, three seasons, and Tampa Bay is his third organisation.
A career plus-10 in 136 games. He was a fifth-round pick who took five years to hold a place and has now played 81 games in a season for a club that finished sixth in the East.
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
- 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.
- durable· was available
81 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
“He fights, he finishes every check available, and he is on the ice for eleven minutes precisely because of it; a hundred and four penalty minutes from a fourth-liner is a man doing the job he was hired for.”
“He shoots more than a fourth-line winger normally does — 205 attempts at eleven and a half minutes a night is a very high rate — and converts at well under the league average, which is the whole shape of him.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 927 minutes
- Expected goals
- 49.4%
- 48th pct
- Shot attempts
- 52.1%
- 73rd 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: 34 for, 27 against. Expected: 33.5 and 34.4.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe report ranks him 32 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 652 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 76 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 · 81 games
- Top speed
- 23.7 mph
- 98th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.67 a game
- Distance
- 1.97 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 86.9 mph
- 50th 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 · 927 minutes at five-on-five
- Nick Paul31%
- Conor Sheary26%
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
- TBL took 50.5% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 49.4% — 1.1 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Fourth line, 927 minutes at five-on-five — 50th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nick Perbix | 51.0% | 48.6% | 50.9% |
| Darren Raddysh | 49.9% | 49.1% | 53.1% |
| Nicholas Paul | 49.3% | 49.4% | 50.7% |
51.0% together, 48.6% for him apart and 50.9% for Perbix apart. Splitting them up moved neither man. Whatever is driving the share, it is not this pairing.
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
205 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 11 of them goals. His median goal came from 10 feet. 31% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 24% from beyond forty.