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Sam Carrick
New York Rangers Center
Three hundred and sixteen career penalty minutes in 240 games, and 102 of them last season.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-15 | TOR | 16 | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 5.9 | 6:29 |
| 2015-16 | TOR | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0.0 | 11:28 |
| 2018-19 | ANA | 6 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0.0 | 10:13 |
| 2019-20 | ANA | 9 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 6.3 | 13:46 |
| 2020-21 | ANA | 13 | 2 | 4 | 6 | +4 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 8.7 | 12:55 |
| 2021-22 | ANA | 64 | 11 | 8 | 19 | -12 | 85 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 80 | 13.8 | 11:28 |
| 2022-23 | ANA | 52 | 3 | 4 | 7 | -17 | 86 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 6.0 | 10:34 |
| 2023-24 | ANA/EDM | 77 | 10 | 6 | 16 | -11 | 102 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 92 | 10.9 | 12:14 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 240 | 28 | 25 | 53 | -41 | 316 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 287 | 9.8 | 11:19 |
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
77 games in Anaheim and Edmonton, 10 goals and 6 assists for 16 points, 1 on the power play, 2 shorthanded, 102 penalty minutes, 12:14 a night and minus-11. He took 44.4 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 725 minutes, the 17th percentile, and his ice went 15-28 against an expectation of 22.58-28.22, the on-ice record filed with Edmonton.
Eight goals of scoring that did not arrive and level at the other end. A 17th-percentile chance share and a minus-11 from a fourth-line centre, and a hundred and two penalty minutes on top of it.
The Finesse Game
92 shots at a median of 25 feet with 47 per cent from inside 20, converted at 10.9 per cent against a career 9.76.
25 career assists in 240 games. Ten goals is his second-best season, one behind the eleven he scored in 2021-22. He shoots from close in and there is no playmaking; fifty-three points in two hundred and forty games is the complete record.
The Physical Game
He hits everything at 6-0 and 202, and 316 career penalty minutes in 240 games is what that produces.
He will fight anybody, takes liberties after the whistle, and forechecks aggressively. A hundred and two penalty minutes in seventy-seven games is well over a minute a game and it is the whole description.
The Intangibles
A fifth-round pick in 2010 by Toronto, out of Stouffville, eight seasons across three organisations, and 53 points in 240 games at a career minus-41.
He is 32 and takes the fourth-line centre job and the faceoffs that come with it. On a club whose penalty kill was fourth in the league, another man who takes a hundred minutes is a curious acquisition.
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.
“He hits everything at 6-0 and 202, and 316 career penalty minutes in 240 games is what that produces.”
“He will fight anybody, takes liberties after the whistle, and forechecks aggressively.”
“He will fight anybody, takes liberties after the whistle, and forechecks aggressively.”
“He will fight anybody, takes liberties after the whistle, and forechecks aggressively.”
“He shoots from close in and there is no playmaking; fifty-three points in two hundred and forty games is the complete record.”
“He shoots from close in and there is no playmaking; fifty-three points in two hundred and forty games is the complete record.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 725 minutes
- Expected goals
- 44.4%
- 18th pct
- Shot attempts
- 46.1%
- 23rd 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: 15 for, 28 against. Expected: 22.6 and 28.2.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 13 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 652 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 65 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, 2023-24 · 77 games
- Top speed
- 22.2 mph
- 53rd pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.86 a game
- Distance
- 1.98 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 91.1 mph
- 76th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.1
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 84.5
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
2023-24 with ANA · 568 minutes at five-on-five
- Brett Leason36%
- Brock McGinn22%
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
- EDM took 56.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 44.4% — 12.5 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- 725 minutes at five-on-five — 33rd percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ross Johnston | 39.5% | 47.7% | 40.1% |
| Radko Gudas | 46.8% | 43.4% | 48.7% |
| Brett Leason | 45.1% | 44.2% | 42.0% |
39.5% together, 47.7% for him apart and 40.1% for Johnston apart. He was better away from Johnston, who was no worse away from him — the pairing cost him more than it cost Johnston.
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
116 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 10 of them goals. His median goal came from 14 feet. 47% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 28% from beyond forty.