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Mikey Anderson
Los Angeles Kings Defense
Eleven goals in 268 games, plus-52 for a career, and twenty and a half minutes beside Drew Doughty.
| 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 | LAK | 74 | 2 | 16 | 18 | +22 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 89 | 2.3 | 20:38 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 268 | 11 | 47 | 58 | +52 | 96 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 298 | 3.7 | 20:53 |
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
74 games, 2 goals and 16 assists for 18 points, 18 penalty minutes, 20:38 a night and plus-22. He took 53.1 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,341 minutes, the 76th percentile, and his ice went 50-38 against an expectation of 53.94-47.66.
Four goals of scoring that did not arrive and ten fewer conceded than the chances called for. The plus-22 was the best on the club and a career plus-52 in 268 games is the whole argument for him.
The Finesse Game
89 shots at a median of 50 feet with 69 per cent from beyond 40, converted at 2.3 per cent against a career 3.7.
47 career assists in 268 games. Eleven goals in five seasons is as close to no offence as a top-four defenceman gets. He moves the puck simply and gives it to Doughty, which is the correct answer.
The Physical Game
He is 6-0 and 195 and closes gaps early rather than defending deep.
18 penalty minutes in 74 games at twenty and a half a night is a remarkable rate for a man who plays the other club’s top line every night. He blocks shots, kills penalties, and does not chase.
The Intangibles
A fourth-round pick in 2017 out of Roseville, Minnesota, three years at Minnesota-Duluth, five seasons and 268 games.
He is 25 and has already had the assignment for four years. There is no scoring coming and there does not need to be.
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
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.
- slot-man· shoots from where goals are scored
16.9% of his attempts in the slot, 90th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.69) · 44% keep it
“He blocks shots, kills penalties, and does not chase.”
“He blocks shots, kills penalties, and does not chase.”
“He blocks shots, kills penalties, and does not chase.”
“He is 6-0 and 195 and closes gaps early rather than defending deep.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 1,341 minutes
- Expected goals
- 53.1%
- 77th pct
- Shot attempts
- 54.2%
- 86th 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: 50 for, 38 against. Expected: 53.9 and 47.7.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 34 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 — 68 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 · 74 games
- Top speed
- 21.4 mph
- 37th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.34 a game
- Distance
- 2.84 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 90.4 mph
- 42nd pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.7
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 90.2
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 · 1341 minutes at five-on-five
- Drew Doughty87%
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
- LAK took 54.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 53.1% — 1.0 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- First pair, 1,341 minutes at five-on-five — 92nd percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drew Doughty | 53.9% | 47.3% | 57.9% |
| Anze Kopitar | 49.4% | 54.7% | 53.2% |
| Trevor Moore | 54.3% | 52.5% | 59.8% |
53.9% together, 47.3% for him apart and 57.9% for Doughty apart. He was the one being carried: the share went with Doughty and did not follow 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
124 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 2 of them goals. His median goal came from 29 feet. 11% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 69% from beyond forty.