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Scott Laughton
Philadelphia Flyers Center
Nine career shorthanded goals, 365 penalty minutes, and the hardest starts on a club that was sixth in the league.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-13 | PHI | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0.0 | 11:31 |
| 2014-15 | PHI | 31 | 2 | 4 | 6 | -1 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 51 | 3.9 | 12:43 |
| 2015-16 | PHI | 71 | 7 | 14 | 21 | -2 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 85 | 8.2 | 10:26 |
| 2016-17 | PHI | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0.0 | 10:15 |
| 2017-18 | PHI | 81 | 10 | 10 | 20 | -10 | 42 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 108 | 9.3 | 11:07 |
| 2018-19 | PHI | 82 | 12 | 20 | 32 | -11 | 53 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 130 | 9.2 | 14:51 |
| 2019-20 | PHI | 49 | 13 | 14 | 27 | +13 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 74 | 17.6 | 14:36 |
| 2020-21 | PHI | 53 | 9 | 11 | 20 | +13 | 39 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 89 | 10.1 | 15:25 |
| 2021-22 | PHI | 67 | 11 | 19 | 30 | -9 | 35 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 110 | 10.0 | 16:25 |
| 2022-23 | PHI | 78 | 18 | 25 | 43 | -9 | 50 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 170 | 10.6 | 18:17 |
| 2023-24 | PHI | 82 | 13 | 26 | 39 | -9 | 69 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 167 | 7.8 | 15:39 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 601 | 95 | 143 | 238 | -25 | 365 | 6 | 9 | 7 | 998 | 9.5 | 14:26 |
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
All 82 games, 13 goals and 26 assists for 39 points, 1 on the power play, 2 shorthanded, 69 penalty minutes, 15:39 a night and minus-9, with 2 game-winners. He took 45.0 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,008 minutes, the 21st percentile and the worst share of any forward who played a thousand minutes for the club, and his ice went 37-53 against an expectation of 35.97-43.91.
One goal of finishing above what the chances were worth and nine more conceded than they called for. A 21st percentile chance share on a club that was sixth in the league is a checking centre being handed the other side of the ledger.
The Finesse Game
210 attempts at a median of 31 feet with 36 per cent of them from inside twenty and 33 per cent from beyond forty, 167 of those on goal, converted at 7.8 per cent against a career 9.52 across 998 shots.
143 career assists in 601 games. He is a straight-line forward who scores from the slot on rebounds and second chances, and 95 goals in 601 games is an honest statement of the hands. The 43-point season two years ago is the ceiling.
The Physical Game
He is 6-1 and 190 and took 69 penalty minutes.
365 career penalty minutes in 601 games. He forechecks hard and finishes checks against men larger than he is, and eleven seasons of it in one city is the reason he is still here. There is nothing cheap in it.
The Intangibles
Twentieth overall in 2012, eleven seasons, all of them in Philadelphia, 238 points in 601 games and a career minus-25.
Nine career shorthanded goals in 601 games and two of them last season, on the third-best penalty kill in the league. He is 30, he has played for one club, and he has taken the starts nobody else on the roster wanted for a decade.
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
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
33.3% of his attempts from 40 feet or beyond, 96th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
- durable· was available
82 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
“Nine career shorthanded goals in 601 games and two of them last season, on the third-best penalty kill in the league.”
“He forechecks hard and finishes checks against men larger than he is, and eleven seasons of it in one city is the reason he is still here.”
“A 21st percentile chance share on a club that was sixth in the league is a checking centre being handed the other side of the ledger.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 1,008 minutes
- Expected goals
- 45%
- 21st pct
- Shot attempts
- 45.5%
- 20th 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: 37 for, 53 against. Expected: 36.0 and 43.9.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe report ranks him 26 points above where the numbers do. 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. Why the numbers land there sets out the club he did it on, the minutes he played and the men he played them with.
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 — 69 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 · 82 games
- Top speed
- 22.1 mph
- 48th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.96 a game
- Distance
- 2.55 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 88.4 mph
- 60th 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 · 1008 minutes at five-on-five
- Joel Farabee32%
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
- PHI took 52.6% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 45.0% — 7.6 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third line, 1,008 minutes at five-on-five — 59th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joel Farabee | 45.5% | 44.8% | 54.6% |
| Travis Sanheim | 45.0% | 45.0% | 55.0% |
| Cam York | 46.3% | 44.5% | 54.2% |
45.5% together, 44.8% for him apart and 54.6% for Farabee apart. Farabee 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
210 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 13 of them goals. His median goal came from 10 feet. 37% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 33% from beyond forty.