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Mikey Anderson
Los Angeles Kings Defense
The seventh percentile in top speed and the fifth in bursts, playing twenty-two minutes a night on the hardest assignment in the league.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 | LAK | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | +4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 11.1 | 18:09 |
| 2020-21 | LAK | 54 | 1 | 10 | 11 | 0 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 52 | 1.9 | 21:11 |
| 2021-22 | LAK | 57 | 2 | 6 | 8 | +6 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 58 | 3.5 | 20:07 |
| 2022-23 | LAK | 77 | 5 | 15 | 20 | +20 | 40 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 90 | 5.6 | 21:40 |
| 2023-24 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 194 | 9 | 31 | 40 | +30 | 78 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 209 | 4.3 | 20:58 |
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
5 goals and 15 assists in 77 games — 20 points — at 21:40 a night. Plus-20, 90 shots, 40 penalty minutes.
52.7 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 72nd percentile, with his ice at 58-48 against an expectation of 59.04-53.08.
He starts 49.2 per cent of his shifts in the attacking zone, the 42nd percentile, and he takes them beside Doughty. Gavrikov and Englund were started further back, so this is the third-hardest share on the blue line rather than the hardest, on a club that conceded the second-fewest expected goals per sixty in the league.
Four seasons, 194 games, 40 points.
The Finesse Game
90 shots at a median of 48 feet, 12 per cent from inside twenty and 65 per cent from beyond forty.
Beyond forty: 55 shots on goal, 1 goal. Inside forty: 33 shots, 4 goals.
Five goals in seventy-seven games and forty points in four seasons. There is no offensive game here at all, and Los Angeles has never asked for one.
87.0 mph at the 22nd percentile, on twenty slap shots. Soft, and it does not matter.
The Physical Game
6-0 and 195, and 40 penalty minutes.
Top speed 21.2 mph, the 7th percentile. Bursts 0.2 a game, the 5th percentile. Those are close to the lowest readings the feed records on a defenceman who plays twenty-two minutes.
2.87 miles a game, the 72nd percentile, which is the same shape as Doughty’s and for the same reason: play the minutes and the distance follows.
What he does instead of skating is arrive early. He reads the play a beat ahead, takes the inside lane and does not get beaten wide, because he never lets the race start. At 195 pounds he is not moving anyone out of the front of the net, and the pairing gives up more there than it should.
The Intangibles
One hundred and third overall in 2017, out of the US National Development Program and then Minnesota-Duluth, where he won two national championships.
He is twenty-four, plays the second-hardest minutes on the club, and the tracking says he is among the slowest defencemen in the league. Those two facts have coexisted for four seasons, which is longer than a coincidence lasts.
The honest projection is a second-pair defensive defenceman for a decade, and a man who will be badly served by any evaluation that starts with the skating numbers.
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.
- workhorse· carries the load at even strength
18:54 a game at five-on-five, 90th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.78) · 58% keep it
“He reads the play a beat ahead, takes the inside lane and does not get beaten wide, because he never lets the race start.”
“At 195 pounds he is not moving anyone out of the front of the net, and the pairing gives up more there than it should.”
“One hundred and third overall in 2017, out of the US National Development Program and then Minnesota-Duluth, where he won two national championships.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2022-23 · 1,455 minutes
- Expected goals
- 52.7%
- 72nd pct
- Shot attempts
- 51.8%
- 69th 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: 58 for, 48 against. Expected: 59.0 and 53.1.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 24 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 638 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 65 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, 2022-23 · 77 games
- Top speed
- 21.2 mph
- 36th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.19 a game
- Distance
- 2.87 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 87.0 mph
- 25th 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 90.0
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
2022-23 · 1455 minutes at five-on-five
- Drew Doughty91%
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
- LAK took 53.5% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 52.7% — 0.8 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- First pair, 1,455 minutes at five-on-five — 96th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drew Doughty | 53.7% | 41.3% | 52.4% |
| Anze Kopitar | 53.9% | 51.9% | 54.4% |
| Adrian Kempe | 53.6% | 52.2% | 54.2% |
53.7% together, 41.3% for him apart and 52.4% for Doughty apart. He was worse away from Doughty, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Doughty 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
130 unblocked shots in 2022-23, 5 of them goals. His median goal came from 26 feet. 12% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 65% from beyond forty.