Robert Hagg
Anaheim Ducks Defense
Two hundred and four career penalty minutes, seventy-nine per cent of his shots from beyond forty feet, and a seventh-defenceman's job.
| 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 | DET | 38 | 2 | 5 | 7 | -5 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 5.0 | 15:31 |
| 2023-24 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 338 | 16 | 47 | 63 | -1 | 204 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 346 | 4.6 | 16:33 |
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
2 goals and 5 assists in 38 games for Detroit — 7 points at 15:31 a night, minus-5, on 40 shots and 26 penalty minutes.
45.6 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 552 minutes, the 25th percentile, with reasonably sheltered starts at 42.5 per cent in the attacking end. His ice went 17-24 against an expectation of 19.38-23.14.
The Finesse Game
40 attempts at a median of 53 feet, 79 per cent from beyond 40 and 7 per cent from inside 20, converting at 5 per cent. 63 points in 338 games.
There is no puck-moving game to speak of. Under pressure the puck leaves the zone off the boards, and a club trying to teach controlled exits will not use this pairing to demonstrate them.
The Physical Game
6-2 and 210, and 204 penalty minutes in 338 games is a defenceman who defends with contact — he finishes checks, he clears bodies from in front, and he has always been more comfortable in his own end than out of it.
The skating is the reason the career has stalled: 21.2 mph at the 6th percentile and 0.1 bursts over twenty a game at the 3rd. He is beaten wide and he cannot recover, and there is no coaching that around at 28.
The Intangibles
Forty-first overall in 2013 to Philadelphia, seven seasons, three clubs, and a role that has narrowed every year.
He is 28 and signed to compete for a third-pairing job on the worst defensive club in hockey. That is the honest description of where the career is: a depth signing on a team that finished last, brought in to absorb games so that nobody rushes a nineteen-year-old.
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
- he lacks itraised, and he does not have it
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.
“204 penalty minutes in 338 games is a defenceman who defends with contact”
“he finishes checks, he clears bodies from in front, and he has always been more comfortable in his own end than out of it”
“Under pressure the puck leaves the zone off the boards, and a club trying to teach controlled exits will not use this pairing to demonstrate them.”
“He is beaten wide and he cannot recover, and there is no coaching that around at 28.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2022-23 · 552 minutes
- Expected goals
- 45.6%
- 25th pct
- Shot attempts
- 43.4%
- 10th 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: 17 for, 24 against. Expected: 19.4 and 23.1.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 17 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 58 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 52 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
2022-23 with DET · 552 minutes at five-on-five
- Gustav Lindströmnow MTL47%
- Olli Maatta23%
- Jordan Oesterlenow CGY16%
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
- DET took 46.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 45.6% — 0.6 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third pair, 552 minutes at five-on-five — 19th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gustav Lindström | 47.7% | 43.7% | 36.1% |
| Joe Veleno | 45.2% | 45.7% | 45.5% |
| Dominik Kubalik | 44.1% | 46.0% | 46.2% |
47.7% together, 43.7% for him apart and 36.1% for Lindström apart. Both were worse apart, so whatever the two of them had together was doing real work.
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
61 unblocked shots in 2022-23, 2 of them goals. His median goal came from 45 feet. 7% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 79% from beyond forty.