Pierre Engvall
New York Islanders Left Wing
Six foot six, and nine goals of scoring that never arrived on his ice.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 | TOR | 48 | 8 | 7 | 15 | +4 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 72 | 11.1 | 11:56 |
| 2020-21 | TOR | 42 | 7 | 5 | 12 | +2 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 61 | 11.5 | 11:56 |
| 2021-22 | TOR | 78 | 15 | 20 | 35 | +13 | 30 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 154 | 9.7 | 13:17 |
| 2022-23 | TOR/NYI | 76 | 17 | 13 | 30 | +8 | 31 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 131 | 13.0 | 13:38 |
| 2023-24 | NYI | 74 | 10 | 18 | 28 | +4 | 18 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 128 | 7.8 | 15:20 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 318 | 57 | 63 | 120 | +31 | 101 | 4 | 3 | 12 | 546 | 10.4 | 13:28 |
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
74 games, 10 goals and 18 assists for 28 points, 2 on the power play, 18 penalty minutes, 15:20 a night and plus-4. He took 53.1 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,033 minutes, the 76th percentile, and his ice went 36-33 against an expectation of 44.78-39.49.
Nine goals of scoring that did not arrive — the largest shortfall on the club — and seven fewer conceded than the chances called for. A 76th-percentile chance share that produced twenty-eight points, which is the gap between the play and the finishing.
The Finesse Game
170 attempts at a median of 26 feet with 36 per cent from inside 20, 128 on goal, converted at 7.8 per cent against a career 10.44.
63 career assists in 318 games. He is 6-6 and skates faster than anybody that size has a right to, and the hands do not keep up with the feet. Ten goals on a hundred and twenty-eight shots is three below his own rate.
The Physical Game
He is 6-6 and 208 and does not use any of it.
101 career penalty minutes in 318 games is a very low rate. He does not forecheck by force, does not clear a crease, and does not win many walls, which at that size is the whole frustration.
The Intangibles
A seventh-round pick in 2014 out of Ljungby, five seasons across two organisations, and 120 points in 318 games.
He is 28 and has 3 career shorthanded goals from a penalty kill he is genuinely good on. The chance share says the line works; the finishing says he is not the reason.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 1,033 minutes
- Expected goals
- 53.1%
- 77th pct
- Shot attempts
- 50.9%
- 62nd 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: 36 for, 33 against. Expected: 44.8 and 39.5.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 35 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 415 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 64 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.
Usual linemates
2023-24 · 1033 minutes at five-on-five
- Brock Nelson63%
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
- NYI took 49.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 53.1% — 4.0 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Second line, 1,033 minutes at five-on-five — 63rd percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brock Nelson | 52.7% | 54.2% | 45.1% |
| Kyle Palmieri | 52.7% | 54.0% | 48.9% |
| Alexander Romanov | 52.0% | 53.8% | 47.5% |
52.7% together, 54.2% for him apart and 45.1% for Nelson apart. Nelson was worse away from him while his own share held — the pairing was doing more for Nelson 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
170 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 10 of them goals. His median goal came from 16 feet. 36% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 27% from beyond forty.