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Scott Mayfield
New York Islanders Defense
The 2nd-least ground covered of 192 defencemen, the 31st-most blocks of 202, and the 95th-percentile shot distance.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-14 | NYI | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -3 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0.0 | 17:22 |
| 2015-16 | NYI | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -4 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 25.0 | 17:07 |
| 2016-17 | NYI | 25 | 2 | 7 | 9 | -1 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 39 | 5.1 | 14:08 |
| 2017-18 | NYI | 47 | 2 | 10 | 12 | -6 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 58 | 3.5 | 17:51 |
| 2018-19 | NYI | 79 | 4 | 15 | 19 | +18 | 68 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 104 | 3.9 | 18:44 |
| 2019-20 | NYI | 67 | 5 | 8 | 13 | +8 | 53 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 98 | 5.1 | 19:57 |
| 2020-21 | NYI | 56 | 2 | 13 | 15 | +2 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 79 | 2.5 | 19:29 |
| 2021-22 | NYI | 61 | 3 | 15 | 18 | -5 | 55 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 80 | 3.8 | 19:46 |
| 2022-23 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 346 | 19 | 68 | 87 | +9 | 312 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 469 | 4.0 | 18:46 |
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
61 games, 3 goals and 15 assists at 19:46 a night, minus-5, fifty-five penalty minutes, 80 shots. Thirty-fourth overall in 2011, eight seasons, 346 games, 87 points, 312 career penalty minutes, all of it here.
The Finesse Game
0.96 even-strength points per 60 is the 52nd percentile and none of his points came on the power play — four seconds a night.
3.98 shots per 60 is the 39th percentile at a 55-foot median in the 95th percentile, eleven per cent from the slot, on 88.6 mph — the 10th percentile for shot speed among defencemen. He shoots from the blue line and it does not travel.
2.64 giveaways per 60 is the 91st percentile against 0.75 takeaways at the 38th. The puck leaves him and does not come back.
48.6 per cent of the expected goals and 48.8 per cent of the attempts, from 46.2 per cent offensive-zone starts, the 215th-lowest of 652 skaters.
His ice went 33-43 against an expectation of 40.74-43.02 — eight goals short going forward and a goals-against at the model.
The Physical Game
5.42 blocks per 60 is the 31st-most of the 202 defencemen who played forty games, at 6-4 and 215 pounds.
3.83 hits per 60 is the 48th percentile. 0.35 penalties drawn per 60 against 0.90 taken is the 15th percentile net, and fifty-five penalty minutes came out of sixty-one games.
2:18 short-handed a night, on a kill that finished 6th in the league.
The Intangibles
7.62 miles per 60 is the 2nd-least of the 192 defencemen the tracking covers, at 6-4 and nearly twenty minutes a night. 1.0 bursts per 60 is the 30th percentile and 21.9 mph the 45th.
Only one defenceman in the league moved less. Whether that is positioning or immobility the chips cannot say, and the 48.8 per cent attempt share on a club that finished 29th argues for the first.
He is 30 with 346 games for one franchise. The blocks, the kill and the stillness are the job; the giveaway rate and the eight goals his ice fell short going forward are what it costs.
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
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.
“5.42 blocks per 60 is the 31st-most of the 202 defencemen who played forty games, at 6-4 and 215 pounds.”
“7.62 miles per 60 is the 2nd-least of the 192 defencemen the tracking covers, at 6-4 and nearly twenty minutes a night.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2021-22 · 1,038 minutes
- Expected goals
- 48.6%
- 44th pct
- Shot attempts
- 48.8%
- 43rd 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: 33 for, 43 against. Expected: 40.7 and 43.0.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 18 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 — 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, 2021-22 · 61 games
- Top speed
- 21.9 mph
- 63rd pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.33 a game
- Distance
- 2.51 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 88.6 mph
- 29th 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 · 1038 minutes at five-on-five
- Adam Pelech61%
- Andy Greeneoff the roster14%
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
- NYI took 46.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 48.6% — 1.7 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Second pair, 1,038 minutes at five-on-five — 67th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adam Pelech | 51.8% | 44.1% | 50.9% |
| Anthony Beauvillier | 48.3% | 48.8% | 45.4% |
| Jean-Gabriel Pageau | 50.8% | 47.8% | 45.2% |
51.8% together, 44.1% for him apart and 50.9% for Pelech apart. He was worse away from Pelech, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Pelech did.
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
123 unblocked shots in 2021-22, 3 of them goals. His median goal came from 16 feet. 7% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 77% from beyond forty.