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Sean Couturier

Half of his shot attempts came from inside 20 feet, the highest share of any forward here, in his second season back from a broken back.

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	PHI	79	15	30	45	+1	41	1	0	2	155	9.7	17:18
2025-26 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	874	206	337	543	+73	347	31	5	35	1924	10.7	18:42

This Season So Far

The 2025-26 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

15 goals and 30 assists in 79 games — 45 points at 17:18 a night, plus-1, with 41 penalty minutes.

52.1 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 73rd percentile. His ice went 54-51 against an expectation of 49.51-45.50 — eleven goals of scoring missing and nine extra conceded, and a plus-1 that flatters neither the play nor the results.

The Finesse Game

155 attempts at a median of 20 feet with 50 per cent of them from inside 20 feet — the highest share of any forward on this roster. He does not shoot from distance and has never needed to.

The hands are ordinary and the head is not. He reads a defensive coverage as well as anybody in this book and the 30 assists come from arriving in the right place a half-second before the play does.

The Physical Game

6-4 and 210, and he plays the game in the hard areas by choice. He goes to the front of the net, he wins pucks below the goal line, and he takes the punishment that comes with a 20-foot median shot.

41 penalty minutes in 79 games. He wins the draw that starts the shift and he is the man the club sends out to kill the important penalty, which is the role he has held since he was 22.

The Intangibles

Eighth overall in 2011, a Selke Trophy in 2020, 874 games and 543 points, all of it in Philadelphia, and a captaincy handed to him in 2024.

He lost two full seasons to a broken back and a hip that had to be rebuilt, and he came back to play 79 games at 32. Whatever this roster’s problems are, his willingness is not among them.

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.

durable· was available
79 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
workhorse· carries the load at even strength
14:21 a game at five-on-five, 90th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.78) · 58% keep it
net-fronta strength· lives in the blue paint; the screens and the tips
“He goes to the front of the net, he wins pucks below the goal line, and he takes the punishment that comes with a 20-foot median shot.”
wins-the-walla strength· the corners and below the goal line
“He goes to the front of the net, he wins pucks below the goal line, and he takes the punishment that comes with a 20-foot median shot.”
faceoffsa strength· takes the draw that starts it
“He wins the draw that starts the shift and he is the man the club sends out to kill the important penalty, which is the role he has held since he was 22.”
penalty-killera strength· trusted a man short
“He wins the draw that starts the shift and he is the man the club sends out to kill the important penalty, which is the role he has held since he was 22.”
leadershipa strength· the room, and who holds it
“Eighth overall in 2011, a Selke Trophy in 2020, **874 games and 543 points**, all of it in Philadelphia, and a captaincy handed to him in 2024.”
defensively-responsiblea strength· comes back; can be trusted with a lead
“He reads a defensive coverage as well as anybody in this book and the 30 assists come from arriving in the right place a half-second before the play does.”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,134 minutes

Expected goals: 52.1%; 70th pct
Shot attempts: 50%; 52nd pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 54 for, 51 against. Expected: 49.5 and 45.5.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

84th

Numbers

70th

The two rank him within 14 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 637 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 79 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, 2024-25 · 79 games

Top speed: 21.6 mph; 23rd pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.59 a game
Distance: 2.72 miles a game
Hardest shot: 90.2 mph; 80th pct

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

2024-25 · 1134 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, 2024-25

The club: PHI took 52.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 52.1% — level with the club he did it on.
The role: First line, 1,134 minutes at five-on-five — 79th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Travis Konecny	49.0%	56.1%	51.0%
Matvei Michkov	52.4%	51.8%	53.4%
Travis Sanheim	57.2%	48.1%	51.6%

49.0% together, 56.1% for him apart and 51.0% for Konecny apart. He was better away from Konecny, who was no worse away from him — the pairing cost him more than it cost Konecny.

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

203 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 15 of them goals. His median goal came from 9 feet. 51% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 18% from beyond forty.