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Robert Hagg
Detroit Red Wings Defense
8.08 hits and 5.97 blocks per 60 at sixteen minutes a night, and one point per nine games.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-17 | PHI | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0.0 | 21:19 |
| 2017-18 | PHI | 70 | 3 | 6 | 9 | +5 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 89 | 3.4 | 18:08 |
| 2018-19 | PHI | 82 | 5 | 15 | 20 | -3 | 63 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 86 | 5.8 | 16:57 |
| 2019-20 | PHI | 49 | 3 | 10 | 13 | +14 | 30 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 38 | 7.9 | 15:36 |
| 2020-21 | PHI | 34 | 2 | 3 | 5 | -3 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 6.9 | 15:40 |
| 2021-22 | BUF/FLA | 64 | 1 | 8 | 9 | -9 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 59 | 1.7 | 16:01 |
| 2022-23 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 300 | 14 | 42 | 56 | +4 | 178 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 306 | 4.6 | 16:41 |
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
1 goal and 8 assists in 64 games for Buffalo and Florida — 9 points, a minus-9 and 35 penalty minutes at 16:01 a night, the 13th percentile among defencemen.
45.0 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 906 minutes, the 12th percentile. His ice went 31-48 against an expectation of 33.42-40.86.
The Finesse Game
There is not one. 0.60 even-strength points per 60 is the 13th percentile among defencemen, 3.45 shots per 60 is the 24th, and 4 per cent of them came from the slot, the 3rd percentile among defencemen. Eighty-four per cent of his attempts came from beyond forty feet.
One goal on 59 shots is 1.7 per cent, the 10th percentile. The median travels 53 feet, the 78th percentile.
No power-play time. He has one power-play goal in 300 NHL games.
The Physical Game
6-2 and 210, and this is the file.
8.08 hits per 60 is the 89th percentile among defencemen and 5.97 blocks is the 19th-most of 202. At sixteen minutes a night, in the bottom seventh of the league for ice time, he finished near the top of it for both.
0.94 penalties taken per 60 is the 78th percentile and thirty-five minutes in sixty-four games. That is the cost of playing this way and it is not a small one on a club that gave up the 24th-best rate on the kill.
21.3 mph is the 18th percentile and 0.5 bursts over 20 mph per 60 is the 13th. He is slow and he almost never sprints, at 8.38 miles per 60, the 40th percentile. A defenceman who cannot skate and defends by arriving is a defenceman who has to guess right, and nothing in the repo measures how often he does.
40.3 per cent of his even-strength time was in the attacking zone, the 12th percentile.
The Intangibles
Forty-first overall in 2013, the second round, and 300 NHL games at 27 across six seasons and three organisations.
Four seasons in Philadelphia at sixteen minutes, then a year split between the 24th and the 1st clubs in the league. Fifty-six points in 300 games is the whole offensive record.
Detroit needs bodies who will block shots on a penalty kill that finished 20th. He is one, and the arithmetic of a 27-year-old whose only elite figures are hits and blocks is that the minutes go down from here, not up.
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.
- measuredcomputed here from the season's own data
- a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed
- ordinaryraised, and called ordinary
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.
- perimeter· shoots from the outside, by choice or because he cannot get in
83.7% of his attempts from 40 feet or beyond, 94th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
“At sixteen minutes a night, in the bottom seventh of the league for ice time, he finished near the top of it for both.”
“That is the cost of playing this way and it is not a small one”
“A defenceman who cannot skate and defends by arriving is a defenceman who has to guess right”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2021-22 · 906 minutes
- Expected goals
- 45%
- 18th pct
- Shot attempts
- 46.5%
- 25th 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: 31 for, 48 against. Expected: 33.4 and 40.9.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 10 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 649 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 49 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 · 64 games
- Top speed
- 21.3 mph
- 40th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.14 a game
- Distance
- 2.24 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 94.5 mph
- 65th 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 BUF · 708 minutes at five-on-five
- Mark Pysykoff the roster53%
- Will Butcheroff the roster12%
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
- FLA took 56.5% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 45.0% — 11.5 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- 906 minutes at five-on-five — 51st percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mark Pysyk | 41.2% | 47.3% | 44.9% |
| Dylan Cozens | 44.1% | 45.2% | 48.6% |
| Jeff Skinner | 47.5% | 44.3% | 49.7% |
41.2% together, 47.3% for him apart and 44.9% for Pysyk 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
92 unblocked shots in 2021-22, 1 of them goals. His median goal came from 33 feet. 1% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 84% from beyond forty.