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Nick Leddy
St. Louis Blues Defense
Fourteen penalty minutes in 82 games at 22:22, and the best plus-minus on the club.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010-11 | CHI | 46 | 4 | 3 | 7 | -3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 37 | 10.8 | 14:19 |
| 2011-12 | CHI | 82 | 3 | 34 | 37 | -12 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 94 | 3.2 | 22:05 |
| 2012-13 | CHI | 48 | 6 | 12 | 18 | +15 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 65 | 9.2 | 17:25 |
| 2013-14 | CHI | 82 | 7 | 24 | 31 | +10 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 123 | 5.7 | 16:22 |
| 2014-15 | NYI | 78 | 10 | 27 | 37 | +18 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 120 | 8.3 | 20:22 |
| 2015-16 | NYI | 81 | 5 | 35 | 40 | -9 | 25 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 121 | 4.1 | 22:37 |
| 2016-17 | NYI | 81 | 11 | 35 | 46 | -3 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 137 | 8.0 | 22:43 |
| 2017-18 | NYI | 80 | 10 | 32 | 42 | -42 | 20 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 153 | 6.5 | 22:25 |
| 2018-19 | NYI | 82 | 4 | 22 | 26 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 116 | 3.5 | 21:33 |
| 2019-20 | NYI | 60 | 3 | 18 | 21 | -1 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 72 | 4.2 | 21:07 |
| 2020-21 | NYI | 56 | 2 | 29 | 31 | -3 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 79 | 2.5 | 21:35 |
| 2021-22 | DET/STL | 75 | 3 | 21 | 24 | -30 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 71 | 4.2 | 21:25 |
| 2022-23 | STL | 78 | 2 | 21 | 23 | +4 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 79 | 2.5 | 21:07 |
| 2023-24 | STL | 82 | 3 | 25 | 28 | +14 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 82 | 3.7 | 22:22 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 1011 | 73 | 338 | 411 | -42 | 201 | 19 | 1 | 9 | 1349 | 5.4 | 20:48 |
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
82 games, 3 goals and 25 assists for 28 points, 1 shorthanded, 14 penalty minutes, 22:22 a night and plus-14. He took 44.6 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,567 minutes — the ninth-most in this edition — and his ice went 61-60 against an expectation of 60.29-74.93.
Level with the chances at the offensive end and fifteen goals of goaltending above them at the other. The plus-14 is the best figure on the club and it came on the second-lowest chance share of its three big-minute defencemen.
The Finesse Game
118 attempts at a median of 50 feet with 66 per cent of them from beyond forty and 11 per cent from inside twenty, 81 of those on goal, converted at 3.7 per cent against a career 5.41 across 1,349 shots.
338 career assists against 73 goals in 1,011 games. He skates the puck out of trouble rather than passing it out and always has; at 33 the first three strides are still the best on this blue line and 25 assists is what they produce.
The Physical Game
He is 6-0 and 205 and took 14 penalty minutes in 82 games.
201 career penalty minutes in 1,011 games is a very low total for a defenceman with that many games. He does not defend with his body at all — the gap is closed with feet and the puck is taken with a stick — and fourteen minutes in a full season at twenty-two a night is remarkable.
The Intangibles
Sixteenth overall in 2009 by Minnesota, fourteen seasons, four organisations, and 411 points in 1,011 games.
A career minus-42 across fourteen seasons. He has played more than a thousand games without ever being anybody’s first-pairing defenceman, which is a career most first-round picks would take.
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.
- disciplined· stays out of the box
0.17 penalty minutes a game over 82, 5th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.75) · 35% keep it
- durable· was available
82 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
- workhorse· carries the load at even strength
19:07 a game at five-on-five, 92nd percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.78) · 58% keep it
“He skates the puck out of trouble rather than passing it out and always has; at 33 the first three strides are still the best on this blue line and 25 assists is what they produce.”
“He does not defend with his body at all — the gap is closed with feet and the puck is taken with a stick — and fourteen minutes in a full season at twenty-two a night is remarkable.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 1,567 minutes
- Expected goals
- 44.6%
- 19th pct
- Shot attempts
- 44.2%
- 14th 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: 61 for, 60 against. Expected: 60.3 and 74.9.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe report ranks him 28 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 — 69 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 · 82 games
- Top speed
- 23.6 mph
- 99th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.05 a game
- Distance
- 2.94 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 91.1 mph
- 45th 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 · 1567 minutes at five-on-five
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
- STL took 44.8% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 44.6% — 0.2 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- First pair, 1,567 minutes at five-on-five — 99th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colton Parayko | 43.4% | 50.3% | 49.5% |
| Robert Thomas | 47.1% | 42.9% | 51.6% |
| Pavel Buchnevich | 48.3% | 42.7% | 51.1% |
43.4% together, 50.3% for him apart and 49.5% for Parayko apart. Both were better apart than together — the pairing was doing neither of them any favours.
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
118 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 3 of them goals. His median goal came from 43 feet. 11% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 66% from beyond forty.