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Philippe Myers
Tampa Bay Lightning Defense
A 98.9 mph shot at 6-5, undrafted, on twenty-seven games and the 9th-percentile chance share.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | PHI | 21 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 4.0 | 15:22 |
| 2019-20 | PHI | 50 | 4 | 12 | 16 | +17 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 78 | 5.1 | 17:06 |
| 2020-21 | PHI | 44 | 1 | 10 | 11 | -10 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 77 | 1.3 | 18:52 |
| 2021-22 | NSH | 27 | 1 | 3 | 4 | +5 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 3.6 | 14:53 |
| 2022-23 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 142 | 7 | 26 | 33 | +7 | 66 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 208 | 3.4 | 16:58 |
This Season So Far
The 2022-23 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
27 games for Nashville, 1 goal and 3 assists at 14:53 a night, plus-5, twelve penalty minutes, 28 shots. Undrafted, and 142 NHL games and thirty-three points across four seasons out of it.
Three hundred and sixty-eight minutes of five-on-five ice is well short of the five hundred this book requires before it will place a man in the league distribution, so what follows is described rather than ranked.
The Finesse Game
Eighty-five per cent of his attempts came from beyond forty feet at a 51-foot median, at 6-5 and 221 pounds.
Four per cent came from inside twenty feet — one attempt out of twenty-eight across the season.
42.7 per cent of the expected goals across 368 five-on-five minutes, which is the lowest figure attached to any defenceman in this chapter, out of an even chair: fifty per cent of his end-zone shifts started in the attacking end, eighty-five against eighty-five.
His ice went 13-9 against an expectation of 10.91-14.67 — two ahead in front and nearly six fewer against than the model asked, which is how a 42.7 per cent chance share ends up plus-5 across twenty-seven games.
The Physical Game
6-5 and 221 pounds, and twelve penalty minutes in twenty-seven games. Sixty-six across a 142-game career.
The Intangibles
His shot is 98.9 mph — which would be the 93rd percentile of the 568 skaters the tracking covers with forty games, and he played twenty-seven.
21.3 mph top speed and 0.8 bursts a game, both drawn from a third of a season, and 2.06 miles a game at under fifteen minutes of ice.
He is 25, undrafted, with thirty-three points in 142 games across four seasons. The size, the reach and a hard shot from the point are the case. A chance share in the low forties, twenty-seven games and no season above fifty are why he has been moved twice in two years, and there is not enough ice in the record to say which of those facts is the cause.
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.
“Undrafted, and 142 NHL games and thirty-three points across four seasons out of it.”
“Eighty-five per cent of his attempts came from beyond forty feet at a 51-foot median, at 6-5 and 221 pounds.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2021-22 · 368 minutes
- Expected goals
- 42.7%
- 9th pct
- Shot attempts
- 48.1%
- 38th 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, 9 against. Expected: 10.9 and 14.7.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe report ranks him 44 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 649 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, 2021-22 · 27 games
- Top speed
- 21.3 mph
- 39th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.81 a game
- Distance
- 2.06 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 98.9 mph
- 90th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.5
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 90.4
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
2021-22 with NSH · 368 minutes at five-on-five
- Roman Josi20%
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, 2021-22
- The club
- NSH took 49.6% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 42.7% — 6.9 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- 368 minutes at five-on-five — 11th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mark Borowiecki | 38.2% | 45.2% | 53.5% |
| Matt Duchene | 48.7% | 40.4% | 52.8% |
| Yakov Trenin | 32.2% | 46.5% | 51.3% |
38.2% together, 45.2% for him apart and 53.5% for Borowiecki 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
48 unblocked shots in 2021-22, 1 of them goals. His median goal came from 47 feet. 4% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 85% from beyond forty.