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Sean Couturier
Philadelphia Flyers Center
Seventy-four games at 31, after a season he played twenty-nine of and a season he played none of.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011-12 | PHI | 77 | 13 | 14 | 27 | +18 | 14 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 116 | 11.2 | 14:08 |
| 2012-13 | PHI | 46 | 4 | 11 | 15 | -8 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 75 | 5.3 | 15:53 |
| 2013-14 | PHI | 82 | 13 | 26 | 39 | +1 | 45 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 165 | 7.9 | 19:05 |
| 2014-15 | PHI | 82 | 15 | 22 | 37 | +4 | 28 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 148 | 10.1 | 18:23 |
| 2015-16 | PHI | 63 | 11 | 28 | 39 | +8 | 30 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 119 | 9.2 | 18:36 |
| 2016-17 | PHI | 66 | 14 | 20 | 34 | +12 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 120 | 11.7 | 18:27 |
| 2017-18 | PHI | 82 | 31 | 45 | 76 | +34 | 31 | 7 | 0 | 6 | 227 | 13.7 | 21:36 |
| 2018-19 | PHI | 80 | 33 | 43 | 76 | +2 | 34 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 223 | 14.8 | 22:08 |
| 2019-20 | PHI | 69 | 22 | 37 | 59 | +21 | 30 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 185 | 11.9 | 19:50 |
| 2020-21 | PHI | 45 | 18 | 23 | 41 | -4 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 120 | 15.0 | 19:20 |
| 2021-22 | PHI | 29 | 6 | 11 | 17 | -6 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 79 | 7.6 | 20:24 |
| 2023-24 | PHI | 74 | 11 | 27 | 38 | -10 | 29 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 192 | 5.7 | 17:49 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 795 | 191 | 307 | 498 | +72 | 306 | 30 | 5 | 33 | 1769 | 10.8 | 18:50 |
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
74 games, 11 goals and 27 assists for 38 points, 3 on the power play, 29 penalty minutes, 17:49 a night and minus-10, with 3 game-winners. He took 54.0 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,014 minutes, the 82nd percentile, and his ice went 46-52 against an expectation of 43.05-36.65.
Three goals of finishing above what the chances were worth and fifteen more conceded than they called for. An 82nd percentile chance share that finished minus-10 is the whole of Philadelphia’s season in one line.
The Finesse Game
250 attempts at a median of 22 feet with 46 per cent of them from inside twenty, 192 of those on goal, converted at 5.7 per cent against a career 10.80 across 1,769 shots.
307 career assists in 795 games and 498 points. Five and seven-tenths per cent is half his career rate and why 38 points is not closer to fifty; the shot chart says the chances were where they have always been. 30 career power-play goals.
The Physical Game
He is 6-4 and 210 and took 29 penalty minutes.
306 career penalty minutes in 795 games. He is a very large centre who wins pucks below the goal line and holds position in front of his own net without taking penalties for it; the defensive game has always been the reason he plays twenty minutes.
The Intangibles
Eighth overall in 2011, twelve seasons, all of them in Philadelphia, 498 points in 795 games and a career plus-72.
Twenty-nine games in 2021-22 and none at all in 2022-23, then 74 at 31. Five career shorthanded goals and a career plus-72 on clubs that have mostly been outscored is the strongest number on his page.
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.
“He is a very large centre who wins pucks below the goal line and holds position in front of his own net without taking penalties for it; the defensive game has always been the reason he plays twenty minutes.”
“Five career shorthanded goals and a career plus-72 on clubs that have mostly been outscored is the strongest number on his page.”
“Eighth overall in 2011, twelve seasons, all of them in Philadelphia, 498 points in 795 games and a career plus-72.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 1,014 minutes
- Expected goals
- 54%
- 83rd pct
- Shot attempts
- 56.8%
- 94th 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: 46 for, 52 against. Expected: 43.0 and 36.6.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 26 points above where the report does. 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 — 71 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 · 74 games
- Top speed
- 21.5 mph
- 20th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.46 a game
- Distance
- 2.82 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 87.3 mph
- 53rd 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 · 1014 minutes at five-on-five
- Owen Tippett27%
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 54.0% — 1.4 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- First line, 1,014 minutes at five-on-five — 60th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Travis Konecny | 55.6% | 52.3% | 52.0% |
| Travis Sanheim | 51.8% | 55.6% | 53.0% |
| Cam York | 49.5% | 57.1% | 53.6% |
55.6% together, 52.3% for him apart and 52.0% for Konecny apart. Both were worse apart, so whatever the two of them had together was doing real work.
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
250 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 14 of them goals. His median goal came from 11 feet. 46% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 22% from beyond forty.