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Sean Durzi
Arizona Coyotes Defense
The 94th percentile in top speed and the 13th in sprints — fast, and almost never in a hurry.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | LAK | 64 | 3 | 24 | 27 | -9 | 55 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 119 | 2.5 | 19:36 |
| 2022-23 | LAK | 72 | 9 | 29 | 38 | -12 | 50 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 110 | 8.2 | 19:47 |
| 2023-24 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 136 | 12 | 53 | 65 | -21 | 105 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 229 | 5.2 | 19:42 |
This Season So Far
The 2023-24 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
9 goals and 29 assists in 72 games for Los Angeles — 38 points at 19:47 a night, minus-12, on 110 shots and 50 penalty minutes.
51.6 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,142 minutes, the 63rd percentile, on a club that made the playoffs — that context matters and it will not be repeated here. His ice went 46-50 against an expectation of 46.88-43.92.
He arrived in the summer for a second-round pick.
The Finesse Game
110 attempts at a median of 50 feet, 72 per cent from beyond 40, converting at 8.18 per cent — which is a very high rate for a defenceman shooting from that distance and is the most encouraging number in his file.
53 assists in 136 career games is a genuine offensive defenceman’s rate. He walks the line and changes the angle before releasing, and he is comfortable running a power play, which Arizona needed because it finished 28th on it.
The Physical Game
6-1 and 196 and the defending is the part still under construction. He is not physical and he is not especially strong on the wall.
The tracking says something odd and worth recording: 23.3 mph top end is the 94th percentile, and 0.3 bursts over twenty miles an hour a game is the 13th. The speed is there and the game almost never calls on it — he is a defenceman who skates fast in a straight line perhaps twice a night and plays the rest of it standing still.
The Intangibles
Fifty-second overall in 2018 to Toronto, and he arrived in Los Angeles in the Jake Muzzin trade — the second time in his career he has been the asset moved rather than the one kept.
He is 24 with 65 points in 136 games. Arizona has bought a 24-year-old right-shot defenceman with a power play in his hands for a second-round pick, which is the sort of trade a rebuilding club should be making constantly and almost never gets to.
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.
- 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.
“He is not physical and he is not especially strong on the wall.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2022-23 · 1,142 minutes
- Expected goals
- 51.6%
- 64th pct
- Shot attempts
- 51.4%
- 64th 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, 50 against. Expected: 46.9 and 43.9.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 3 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 58 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 63 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
2022-23 with LAK · 1142 minutes at five-on-five
- Matt Roy77%
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, 2022-23
- The club
- LAK took 53.5% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 51.6% — 1.9 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Second pair, 1,142 minutes at five-on-five — 78th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Matt Roy | 52.3% | 48.9% | 60.1% |
| Phillip Danault | 53.0% | 51.0% | 55.6% |
| Viktor Arvidsson | 55.5% | 50.0% | 55.3% |
52.3% together, 48.9% for him apart and 60.1% for Roy apart. He was the one being carried: the share went with Roy and did not follow him.
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
152 unblocked shots in 2022-23, 9 of them goals. His median goal came from 23 feet. 8% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 72% from beyond forty.