Patrick Maroon
Chicago Blackhawks Left Wing
Nine hundred and ninety penalty minutes, three Stanley Cups, and signed at thirty-six to stand next to a teenager.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011-12 | ANA | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 | 12:33 |
| 2012-13 | ANA | 13 | 2 | 1 | 3 | -1 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 9.5 | 9:47 |
| 2013-14 | ANA | 62 | 11 | 18 | 29 | +11 | 101 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 93 | 11.8 | 12:19 |
| 2014-15 | ANA | 71 | 9 | 25 | 34 | -5 | 82 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 120 | 7.5 | 14:17 |
| 2015-16 | ANA/EDM | 72 | 12 | 15 | 27 | -7 | 88 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 104 | 11.5 | 12:20 |
| 2016-17 | EDM | 81 | 27 | 15 | 42 | +13 | 95 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 178 | 15.2 | 16:44 |
| 2017-18 | EDM/NJD | 74 | 17 | 26 | 43 | +1 | 73 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 141 | 12.1 | 16:32 |
| 2018-19 | STL | 74 | 10 | 18 | 28 | -3 | 64 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 118 | 8.5 | 14:10 |
| 2019-20 | TBL | 64 | 9 | 14 | 23 | +4 | 71 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 80 | 11.3 | 12:25 |
| 2020-21 | TBL | 55 | 4 | 14 | 18 | +2 | 60 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 46 | 8.7 | 11:36 |
| 2021-22 | TBL | 81 | 11 | 16 | 27 | +20 | 134 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 102 | 10.8 | 12:24 |
| 2022-23 | TBL | 80 | 5 | 9 | 14 | -5 | 150 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 62 | 8.1 | 10:21 |
| 2023-24 | MIN/BOS | 51 | 4 | 12 | 16 | -11 | 60 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 56 | 7.1 | 12:50 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 780 | 121 | 183 | 304 | +19 | 990 | 19 | 0 | 18 | 1122 | 10.8 | 13:17 |
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-one games in Boston, 4 goals and 12 assists, 12:50 a night and minus-11. He took 46.0 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 611 minutes, the 26th percentile, and his ice went 21-31 against an expectation of 20.17-23.63.
Boston finished fifth in the league in finishing and this is what that looked like on a fourth line: twelve goals better than the chances in one direction and five better in the other. He converted 7.14 per cent of 56 shots against a career 10.78.
The Finesse Game
Fifty-six shots at a median of 19 feet with 52 per cent from inside 20. Everything he does happens within twenty feet of a net and it has to, because the skating is now the slowest on any roster he joins.
The hands in tight are genuinely good and always have been — 183 career assists in 780 games, most of them made from below the goal line with a defenceman on his back.
The Physical Game
He is 6-3 and 234 with 990 penalty minutes in 780 games, and the size is the entire professional case. He is hard to move from the front of the net and a defenceman who wants him out of there has to make a decision about how much he wants it.
He takes liberties with people who have taken them with his teammates, and he has answered for it about four hundred times. Sixty penalty minutes in 51 games at 36 is not a man winding down.
The Intangibles
Three Stanley Cups in a row across two clubs — St Louis in 2019, Tampa Bay in 2020 and 2021 — from a sixth-round pick who has played for six clubs. There is not a room in the league that does not know who he is.
Chicago signed a thirty-six-year-old fourth-line winger to a club that will lose fifty games. He is there so that the next man who runs Connor Bedard has to think about it first, and that is a real job.
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.
- 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.
“He is hard to move from the front of the net and a defenceman who wants him out of there has to make a decision about how much he wants it.”
“He takes liberties with people who have taken them with his teammates, and he has answered for it about four hundred times.”
“Three Stanley Cups in a row across two clubs — St Louis in 2019, Tampa Bay in 2020 and 2021 — from a sixth-round pick who has played for six clubs.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 611 minutes
- Expected goals
- 46%
- 27th pct
- Shot attempts
- 46.5%
- 25th 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: 21 for, 31 against. Expected: 20.2 and 23.6.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 14 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 — 59 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 · 51 games
- Top speed
- 20.3 mph
- 4th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.12 a game
- Distance
- 1.92 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 90.7 mph
- 74th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.1
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 84.5
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 with MIN · 584 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
- BOS took 49.7% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 46.0% — 3.7 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- 611 minutes at five-on-five — 26th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marcus Foligno | 50.8% | 42.9% | 55.7% |
| Frederick Gaudreau | 43.8% | 47.2% | 47.6% |
| Jake Middleton | 48.9% | 44.4% | 48.1% |
50.8% together, 42.9% for him apart and 55.7% for Foligno apart. He was the one being carried: the share went with Foligno 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
71 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 4 of them goals. His median goal came from 10 feet. 52% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 17% from beyond forty.