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Quinton Byfield
Los Angeles Kings Right Wing
Six foot five and 230 pounds at 22, with 55 points and the puck below the goal line.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-21 | LAK | 6 | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0.0 | 15:01 |
| 2021-22 | LAK | 40 | 5 | 5 | 10 | -7 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 39 | 12.8 | 12:09 |
| 2022-23 | LAK | 53 | 3 | 19 | 22 | +13 | 30 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 74 | 4.0 | 14:04 |
| 2023-24 | LAK | 80 | 20 | 35 | 55 | +19 | 42 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 161 | 12.4 | 16:29 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 179 | 28 | 60 | 88 | +26 | 94 | 7 | 0 | 5 | 283 | 9.9 | 14:45 |
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
80 games, 20 goals and 35 assists for 55 points, 6 on the power play, 42 penalty minutes, 16:29 a night and plus-19. He took 55.4 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,088 minutes, the 89th percentile, and his ice went 47-28 against an expectation of 46.32-37.29.
Level with his chances at one end and nine fewer conceded than they called for at the other. Fifty-five points at 21 in his first full season is the first evidence that a second overall pick was not a mistake.
The Finesse Game
161 shots at a median of 23 feet with 47 per cent from inside 20, converted at 12.4 per cent.
60 career assists in 179 games. He holds the puck below the goal line at 230 pounds and nobody takes it from him, and the pass out of that position is already a top-line habit. The finishing is the part that has not arrived.
The Physical Game
He is 6-5 and 230 and cannot be moved off a puck by anybody in the league.
42 penalty minutes in 80 games is an ordinary rate. He does not hit to hurt and at that size he does not have to, and there is a version of him that is far harder to play against than this one.
The Intangibles
Second overall in 2020 out of Newmarket, four seasons, and 88 points in 179 games at 22.
He was written off at 20 by people who should have known better. An 89th-percentile chance share and 55 points at that size is a top-six forward in the making, and the club has been patient enough to find out.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 1,088 minutes
- Expected goals
- 55.4%
- 89th pct
- Shot attempts
- 54.6%
- 88th 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: 47 for, 28 against. Expected: 46.3 and 37.3.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 5 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 415 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 73 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 · 1088 minutes at five-on-five
- Anze Kopitar74%
- Adrian Kempe62%
- Pierre-Luc Duboisnow WSH16%
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
- LAK took 54.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 55.4% — 1.3 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Second line, 1,088 minutes at five-on-five — 70th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anze Kopitar | 52.0% | 65.2% | 51.3% |
| Adrian Kempe | 51.8% | 61.5% | 48.8% |
| Drew Doughty | 57.3% | 54.0% | 54.1% |
52.0% together, 65.2% for him apart and 51.3% for Kopitar apart. He was better away from Kopitar, who was no worse away from him — the pairing cost him more than it cost Kopitar.
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
243 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 20 of them goals. His median goal came from 9 feet. 48% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 22% from beyond forty.