Rem Pitlick
Chicago Blackhawks Center
The 0th percentile in expected-goal share, and six goals on thirty shots.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | NSH | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 9:43 |
| 2020-21 | NSH | 10 | 0 | 2 | 2 | +3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0.0 | 11:18 |
| 2021-22 | MIN/MTL | 66 | 15 | 22 | 37 | -8 | 24 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 65 | 23.1 | 14:59 |
| 2022-23 | MTL | 46 | 6 | 9 | 15 | -15 | 22 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 30 | 20.0 | 12:55 |
| 2023-24 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 123 | 21 | 33 | 54 | -20 | 52 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 106 | 19.8 | 13:52 |
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
6 goals and 9 assists in 46 games for Montreal — 15 points at 12:55 a night, minus-15, on 30 shots at 20.00 per cent.
35.2 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 535 minutes, which the feed rounds to the 0th percentile — the lowest share of any player in this chapter, on a club that was rebuilding as thoroughly as the one he is joining. His ice went 14-28 against an expectation of 17.07-31.37.
45.6 per cent of his five-on-five shifts started in the attacking zone, the 29th percentile.
The Finesse Game
30 attempts across 46 games, at a median of 20 feet with 51 per cent from inside twenty. Five goals on fifteen shots from inside twenty feet, two on ten from the middle band, none on five from beyond forty.
Twenty per cent on thirty shots is not a shooting percentage, it is a rounding error with a decimal point, and his career figure of 19.81 per cent across 123 games says the same thing about the same small numbers. Nobody sustains this.
The useful observation is the volume: 30 shots in 46 games is barely one every other night from a forward playing thirteen minutes. Whatever is wrong here, it is not where he shoots from.
The Physical Game
5-11 and 186 with 22 penalty minutes, and 2.8 bursts over 20 mph a game at the 95th percentile against 2.15 miles a game at the 22nd.
He accelerates well and covers no ground, which on a fourth line is a description of short shifts rather than a flaw. The top speed is 22.7 mph at the 75th.
The Intangibles
A third-round pick by Nashville in 2016, four organisations by 26, and 123 NHL games.
He has been claimed on waivers more than once, which is the market’s opinion stated plainly. Chicago is a place where a 26-year-old gets minutes because there is nobody ahead of him, and that is the entire opportunity.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2022-23 · 535 minutes
- Expected goals
- 35.2%
- 0th pct
- Shot attempts
- 39.2%
- 1st 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: 14 for, 28 against. Expected: 17.1 and 31.4.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 9 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 — 55 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 · 46 games
- Top speed
- 22.7 mph
- 80th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 2.76 a game
- Distance
- 2.15 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 88.2 mph
- 56th 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 with MTL · 535 minutes at five-on-five
- Jake Evans26%
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
- MTL took 44.0% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 35.2% — 8.8 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- 535 minutes at five-on-five — 18th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mike Matheson | 33.2% | 36.1% | 48.0% |
| David Savard | 29.2% | 37.6% | 45.7% |
| Johnathan Kovacevic | 43.7% | 32.4% | 47.9% |
33.2% together, 36.1% for him apart and 48.0% for Matheson apart. Matheson 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
53 unblocked shots in 2022-23, 7 of them goals. His median goal came from 19 feet. 51% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 15% from beyond forty.