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Parker Wotherspoon
Boston Bruins Defense
Nine points in fifty-three NHL games, no goals, and eighty-three per cent of his attempts from beyond forty feet.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-23 | NYI | 12 | 0 | 1 | 1 | +5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0.0 | 13:20 |
| 2023-24 | BOS | 41 | 0 | 8 | 8 | +6 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 0.0 | 17:43 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 53 | 0 | 9 | 9 | +11 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 42 | 0.0 | 16:43 |
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
No goals and 8 assists in 41 games — 8 points at 17:43 a night, plus-6, on 32 shots with 31 penalty minutes.
51.3 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 643 minutes, the 62nd percentile — a better share than either half of the top pair managed. His ice went 25-20 against an expectation of 25.41-24.12.
The Finesse Game
32 attempts at a median of 55 feet, with 83 per cent from beyond 40 feet and not one of them from inside 20. No goals in 53 NHL games.
There is no shot and no offensive game at all. Eight assists is what a third-pairing defenceman produces by moving the puck to the man who can do something with it, and that is the entire contribution and it is a real one.
The Physical Game
6-1 and 190 and light for the position. He defends with his stick and his feet, and he will lose a battle in front of his own net to a heavy forward.
31 penalty minutes in 41 games is on the high side for a player who does not hit, and most of it is the stick foul that follows losing a step.
The Intangibles
A hundred and twelfth overall in 2015 by the Islanders, seven seasons in the American league, and 53 NHL games at 27.
He is a seventh defenceman who was needed for half a season and did not cost his club anything, which is precisely the job. A fourth-round pick who reaches the NHL at 26 and holds a spot on a 109-point team has done something almost nobody in his draft position does.
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.
- hard-minutes· is started in his own end, against the other club's best
38% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 6th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
“**Eight assists is what a third-pairing defenceman produces by moving the puck to the man who can do something with it**, and that is the entire contribution and it is a real one.”
“He defends with his stick and his feet, and he will lose a battle in front of his own net to a heavy forward.”
“6-1 and 190 and light for the position. He defends with his stick and his feet, and he will lose a battle in front of his own net to a heavy forward.”
“31 penalty minutes in 41 games is on the high side for a player who does not hit, and most of it is the stick foul that follows losing a step.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 643 minutes
- Expected goals
- 51.3%
- 63rd pct
- Shot attempts
- 47.2%
- 30th 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: 25 for, 20 against. Expected: 25.4 and 24.1.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 59 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 — 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, 2023-24 · 41 games
- Top speed
- 21.0 mph
- 20th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.27 a game
- Distance
- 2.40 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 87.0 mph
- 27th 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 · 643 minutes at five-on-five
- Kevin Shattenkirkoff the roster23%
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
- BOS took 49.7% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 51.3% — 1.6 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- 643 minutes at five-on-five — 28th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Morgan Geekie | 50.3% | 51.8% | 50.7% |
| Kevin Shattenkirk | 60.1% | 48.3% | 52.1% |
| Jake DeBrusk | 53.7% | 50.5% | 50.3% |
50.3% together, 51.8% for him apart and 50.7% for Geekie 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
42 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 0 of them goals. 0% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 83% from beyond forty.