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| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | STL | 19 | 0 | 6 | 6 | +2 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 0.0 | 15:27 |
| 2023-24 | STL | 54 | 0 | 17 | 17 | +1 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 0.0 | 15:16 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 73 | 0 | 23 | 23 | +3 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 0.0 | 15:19 |
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
54 games, no goals and 17 assists, 12 penalty minutes, 15:16 a night and plus-1. He took 47.0 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 701 minutes, the 35th percentile, and his ice went 32-28 against an expectation of 26.11-29.48.
Six goals of finishing above what the chances were worth and a goal and a half of goaltending above them. His was one of the few positive on-ice goal ledgers on the club, and it came from a 5-10 defenceman on the third pairing.
The Finesse Game
49 attempts at a median of 47 feet with 67 per cent of them from beyond forty and 2 per cent from inside twenty, 32 of those on goal, none of which went in.
Twenty-three career assists and no goals in 73 games — the second-longest goalless run in this edition. Everything he offers is the pass: he moves the puck out of his own end cleanly and quickly and finds the far-side winger through traffic rather than settling for the boards.
The Physical Game
He is 5-10 and 175 and took 12 penalty minutes.
Twenty career penalty minutes in 73 games. He is the smallest defenceman on this roster by a distance and cannot defend by contact at all; the question with him has always been whether the puck-moving is good enough to pay for what happens in front of his own net.
The Intangibles
Forty-fifth overall in 2018 by St. Louis, two seasons, one organisation, and 23 points in 73 games.
A career plus-3 in 73 games. He is 26 and has never played more than 54 games in a season, and 5-10 and 175 pounds is most of the reason.
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
- 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.
- disciplined· stays out of the box
0.22 penalty minutes a game over 54, 9th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.75) · 35% keep it
- sheltered· is started in the attacking end
62% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 98th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 47% keep it
“Everything he offers is the pass: he moves the puck out of his own end cleanly and quickly and finds the far-side winger through traffic rather than settling for the boards.”
“He is the smallest defenceman on this roster by a distance and cannot defend by contact at all; the question with him has always been whether the puck-moving is good enough to pay for what happens in front of his own net.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 701 minutes
- Expected goals
- 47%
- 32nd pct
- Shot attempts
- 47.8%
- 33rd 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: 32 for, 28 against. Expected: 26.1 and 29.5.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 7 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 — 67 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 · 54 games
- Top speed
- 21.9 mph
- 59th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.37 a game
- Distance
- 2.17 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 85.7 mph
- 21st pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.7
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 90.2
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 · 701 minutes at five-on-five
- Marco Scandellaoff the roster38%
- Justin Faulk22%
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
- STL took 44.8% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 47.0% — 2.2 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third pair, 701 minutes at five-on-five — 31st percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marco Scandella | 45.1% | 48.1% | 39.2% |
| Kevin Hayes | 48.3% | 46.4% | 43.2% |
| Brandon Saad | 51.2% | 45.2% | 43.5% |
45.1% together, 48.1% for him apart and 39.2% for Scandella apart. He was carrying it: the share stayed with him and left Scandella behind.
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
49 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 0 of them goals. 2% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 67% from beyond forty.