Armchair Hockey Scout Beta

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Scott Perunovich

St. Louis Blues Defense

Zero goals in 73 career games, and 23 assists.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2021-22STL19066+28000140.015:27
2023-24STL5401717+112000360.015:16
2024-25 so far
Career7302323+320000500.015:19

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.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 701 minutes

Expected goals
47%
32nd pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
47.8%
33rd pct

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

Hindsight
Report
39th
Numbers
32nd

The 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.

Usual linemates

2023-24 · 701 minutes at five-on-five

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

TeammateTogetherHim apartMate apart
Marco Scandella45.1%48.1%39.2%
Kevin Hayes48.3%46.4%43.2%
Brandon Saad51.2%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.