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Sean Monahan

The largest power-play share of points of all 393 qualified forwards — 57 per cent — and the 10th-lowest even-strength rate.

Season	Team	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	PP	SH	GW	S	S%	TOI

2013-14	CGY	75	22	12	34	-20	8	3	0	2	140	15.7	15:59
2014-15	CGY	81	31	31	62	+8	12	10	1	8	191	16.2	19:37
2015-16	CGY	81	27	36	63	-6	18	7	0	5	197	13.7	19:10
2016-17	CGY	82	27	31	58	-1	20	8	1	4	199	13.6	17:35
2017-18	CGY	74	31	33	64	+3	24	9	0	11	202	15.3	18:41
2018-19	CGY	78	34	48	82	+7	12	12	0	5	211	16.1	19:03
2019-20	CGY	70	22	26	48	-16	25	8	0	5	166	13.3	18:06
2020-21	CGY	50	10	18	28	-6	10	4	0	5	98	10.2	17:41
2021-22	CGY	65	8	15	23	-15	24	5	0	2	111	7.2	14:04
2022-23 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	656	212	250	462	-46	153	66	2	47	1515	14.0	17:52

This Season So Far

The 2022-23 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

8 goals and 15 assists in sixty-five games for Calgary at 14:04 a night, minus-15. Sixth overall in 2013, nine seasons, 656 games, 462 points, 212 career goals.

The Finesse Game

Fifty-seven per cent of his points came on the power play — the largest share of all 393 qualified forwards in the league. Thirteen of his twenty-three.

The other half of that is worse. 0.79 even-strength points per 60 is the 10th-lowest of the 393, from a centre who had scored at least twenty goals in seven of his previous eight seasons. 7.2 per cent shooting is the 13th percentile on 7.29 shots per 60 at the 49th — the volume held and nothing went in.

51.8 per cent of the expected goals is the 65th percentile and 53.0 per cent of the attempts the 75th, which are Calgary’s minutes on a club that took 55.2 per cent of the chances. 56.8 per cent of his end-zone starts came in the attacking end — he was being sheltered and still could not score at even strength.

His ice went 21-32 against an expectation of 29.49-27.44: eight goals short going forward and five long against, which is a genuinely bad year in both directions.

2.10 takeaways per 60 is the 80th percentile.

The Physical Game

3.87 hits per 60 is the 50th percentile and 1.58 blocks the 44th. Twenty-four penalty minutes in sixty-five games. There is nothing here in either direction and never has been.

The Intangibles

10.28 miles per 60 is the 93rd percentile at 22.0 mph, the 22nd — he covers a great deal of ground and is not quick, and 85.8 mph is the 22nd percentile, a soft shot for a man whose job is scoring.

He is 28, arriving in Montreal off the worst season of his career. A 462-point centre whose entire remaining production is on the power play is a specific and risky thing to buy, and the club buying him finished 28th on the power play. Nothing in this record forecasts a recovery; nothing in it rules one out either, and the eight seasons before last are the case for patience.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2021-22 · 770 minutes

Expected goals: 51.8%; 69th pct
Shot attempts: 53%; 78th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 21 for, 32 against. Expected: 29.5 and 27.4.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

11th

Numbers

69th

The numbers rank him 58 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 649 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 51 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, 2021-22 · 65 games

Top speed: 22.0 mph; 43rd pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.97 a game
Distance: 2.41 miles a game
Hardest shot: 85.8 mph; 44th 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

2021-22 with CGY · 770 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, 2021-22

The club: CGY took 55.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 51.8% — 3.4 below the club he did it on.
The role: Third line, 770 minutes at five-on-five — 38th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Milan Lucic	51.0%	52.5%	50.0%
Dillon Dube	59.4%	45.9%	50.3%
Erik Gudbranson	50.1%	52.8%	54.8%

51.0% together, 52.5% for him apart and 50.0% for Lucic apart. Splitting them up moved neither man. Whatever is driving the share, it is not this pairing.

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

150 unblocked shots in 2021-22, 8 of them goals. His median goal came from 18 feet. 40% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 17% from beyond forty.