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Patrick Kane

One thousand two hundred and eighty-four points, and forty-seven more in fifty games at thirty-five on a rebuilt hip.

Season	Team	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	PP	SH	GW	S	S%	TOI

2007-08	CHI	82	21	51	72	-5	52	7	0	4	191	11.0	18:22
2008-09	CHI	80	25	45	70	-2	42	13	0	4	254	9.8	18:40
2009-10	CHI	82	30	58	88	+16	20	9	0	6	261	11.5	19:12
2010-11	CHI	73	27	46	73	+7	28	5	0	2	216	12.5	19:17
2011-12	CHI	82	23	43	66	+7	40	4	0	5	253	9.1	20:12
2012-13	CHI	47	23	32	55	+11	8	8	0	3	138	16.7	20:03
2013-14	CHI	69	29	40	69	+7	22	10	0	6	227	12.8	19:37
2014-15	CHI	61	27	37	64	+10	10	6	0	5	186	14.5	19:51
2015-16	CHI	82	46	60	106	+17	30	17	0	9	287	16.0	20:25
2016-17	CHI	82	34	55	89	+11	32	7	0	5	292	11.6	21:24
2017-18	CHI	82	27	49	76	-20	32	5	0	4	285	9.5	20:11
2018-19	CHI	81	44	66	110	+2	22	9	0	7	341	12.9	22:29
2019-20	CHI	70	33	51	84	+8	40	8	0	2	275	12.0	21:20
2020-21	CHI	56	15	51	66	-7	14	3	0	3	191	7.8	22:14
2021-22	CHI	78	26	66	92	-19	18	9	0	2	287	9.1	21:49
2022-23	CHI/NYR	73	21	36	57	-22	16	4	0	1	227	9.3	19:18
2023-24	DET	50	20	27	47	-5	16	2	0	7	147	13.6	18:23
2024-25 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	1230	471	813	1284	+16	442	126	0	75	4058	11.6	20:11

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

Fifty games, 20 goals and 27 assists for 47 points with 2 on the power play and 7 game-winners, 18:23 a night and minus-5. Seven game-winning goals in 50 games is the third-best rate in this edition.

He converted 13.61 per cent of 147 shots against a career 11.61 across 4,058. He took 48.5 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 719 minutes, the 42nd percentile, and his ice went 33-31 against an expectation of 28.52-30.33. Eight extra goals against in 719 minutes at 35.

The Finesse Game

The hands are what they have always been. He handles the puck in traffic at a standstill and comes out the other side with it, and there is no defenceman in the league who has solved that in seventeen years.

Eight hundred and thirteen career assists in 1,230 games. He holds the puck on the half-wall until somebody moves and then puts it exactly where the mover is going, and 126 career power-play goals were built alongside that patience.

One hundred and forty-seven shots from a median of 30 feet and 471 career goals. The shot is a genuine one and it was never the point.

The Physical Game

He is 5-10 and 176 pounds at 35 and there has never been a physical game. Sixteen penalty minutes in 50 games.

The skating is gone and everything now happens below the circles because it has to. He does not forecheck and does not retrieve, and on a club with the 28th-ranked penalty kill he is not part of the answer.

The Intangibles

First overall in 2007 out of Buffalo, seventeen seasons, 1,230 games, three Stanley Cups, a Hart, an Art Ross and a Conn Smythe. Seventy-five career game-winning goals.

He had a hip resurfaced and did not play until December, and then had 47 points in 50 games. There is nothing left to prove and he keeps turning up, which is the only reason to keep writing about him.

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.

clutch· scored his goals when the game was still live
4 of his 20 goals late or in overtime, 91st percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure barely repeats (0.06) · 10% keep it
playmakera strength· passes up the shot a scorer takes
“He holds the puck on the half-wall until somebody moves and then puts it exactly where the mover is going, and 126 career power-play goals were built alongside that patience.”
forechecks-aggressivelyhe lacks it· first man in, and on the puck
“He does not forecheck and does not retrieve, and on a club with the 28th-ranked penalty kill he is not part of the answer.”
leadershipa strength· the room, and who holds it
“First overall in 2007 out of Buffalo, seventeen seasons, 1,230 games, three Stanley Cups, a Hart, an Art Ross and a Conn Smythe.”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 719 minutes

Expected goals: 48.5%; 42nd pct
Shot attempts: 47.3%; 30th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 33 for, 31 against. Expected: 28.5 and 30.3.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

35th

Numbers

42nd

The two rank him within 7 points of one another. 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.

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 — 66 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 · 50 games

Top speed: 22.4 mph; 63rd pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.94 a game
Distance: 3.01 miles a game
Hardest shot: 80.2 mph; 20th pct

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 · 719 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: DET took 45.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 48.5% — 2.6 above the club he did it on.
The role: Third line, 719 minutes at five-on-five — 32nd percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Alex DeBrincat	49.9%	44.8%	48.9%
J.T. Compher	47.1%	49.4%	42.8%
Moritz Seider	45.9%	49.8%	43.0%

49.9% together, 44.8% for him apart and 48.9% for DeBrincat apart. He was worse away from DeBrincat, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than DeBrincat 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

193 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 23 of them goals. His median goal came from 18 feet. 31% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 22% from beyond forty.