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Philip Tomasino
Nashville Predators Right Wing
Thirty-two points as a twenty-year-old rookie, and thirty-one games at twenty-one.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | NSH | 76 | 11 | 21 | 32 | +2 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 111 | 9.9 | 11:32 |
| 2022-23 | NSH | 31 | 5 | 13 | 18 | +5 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 54 | 9.3 | 15:36 |
| 2023-24 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 107 | 16 | 34 | 50 | +7 | 16 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 165 | 9.7 | 12:43 |
This Season So Far
The 2023-24 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
5 goals and 13 assists in 31 games — 18 points — at 15:36 a night, with four on the power play. Plus-5, 54 shots at 9.3 per cent, six penalty minutes.
Thirty-two points in seventy-six games as a rookie at twenty, and then thirty-one games at twenty-one.
45.0 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 20th percentile, with his ice at 13-10 against an expectation of 14.71-17.96 across 400 minutes — far too little to read.
He started 54.1 per cent of his shifts in the attacking zone, the 68th percentile, so the deployment was favourable.
Two seasons, 107 games, 50 points.
The Finesse Game
54 shots at a median of 27 feet, 27 per cent from inside twenty and 17 per cent from beyond forty.
Beyond forty: 7 shots on goal and no goals. Inside forty: 47 shots, 5 goals, 10.64 per cent.
Only 27 per cent of his shots came from inside twenty feet, which is a low share for a scoring winger and is the specific habit that has to change.
84.3 mph at the 9th percentile, on no slap shots in the tracked sample.
Four of his five goals came on the power play.
The Physical Game
6-0 and 187, and six penalty minutes in 31 games.
Top speed 21.7 mph, the 22nd percentile; bursts 1.1 a game, the 57th; 2.55 miles a game, the 48th.
He is small, not fast, and does not play a physical game, which is a difficult combination on a club that gave the sixth-percentile zone starts to its checking line and needs the rest of the roster to score.
He does not forecheck and does not win pucks along the wall.
The Intangibles
Twenty-fourth overall in 2019 out of Niagara, a 32-point rookie season, and then a year in the American league and out of the line-up.
He is twenty-two with 50 points in 107 NHL games, and the direction of travel has been the wrong one for two seasons.
What the file needs is a full season at fifteen minutes. Nothing about a thirty-one-game year settles anything either way.
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.
- 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.
“He does not forecheck and does not win pucks along the wall.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2022-23 · 400 minutes
- Expected goals
- 45%
- 21st pct
- Shot attempts
- 44.7%
- 16th 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: 13 for, 10 against. Expected: 14.7 and 18.0.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 8 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 638 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 61 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, 2022-23 · 31 games
- Top speed
- 21.7 mph
- 32nd pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.06 a game
- Distance
- 2.55 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 84.3 mph
- 33rd pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.0
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 84.9
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
2022-23 · 400 minutes at five-on-five
- Cody Glass67%
- Egor Afanasyev17%
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, 2022-23
- The club
- NSH took 47.0% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 45.0% — 2.0 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- 400 minutes at five-on-five — 11th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cody Glass | 45.5% | 44.3% | 54.1% |
| Tyson Barrie | 37.5% | 50.4% | 50.5% |
| Matt Duchene | 41.9% | 47.0% | 49.5% |
45.5% together, 44.3% for him apart and 54.1% for Glass apart. Glass was better away from him while his own share held, which is a mark against him more than for 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
84 unblocked shots in 2022-23, 6 of them goals. His median goal came from 26 feet. 29% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 17% from beyond forty.