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Shea Theodore
Vegas Golden Knights Defense
Thirty-seven assists in 47 games, on six penalty minutes.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-16 | ANA | 19 | 3 | 5 | 8 | +7 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 28 | 10.7 | 19:07 |
| 2016-17 | ANA | 34 | 2 | 7 | 9 | -6 | 28 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 60 | 3.3 | 17:19 |
| 2017-18 | VGK | 61 | 6 | 23 | 29 | +5 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 144 | 4.2 | 20:21 |
| 2018-19 | VGK | 79 | 12 | 25 | 37 | -4 | 20 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 202 | 5.9 | 20:06 |
| 2019-20 | VGK | 71 | 13 | 33 | 46 | +12 | 25 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 219 | 5.9 | 22:14 |
| 2020-21 | VGK | 53 | 8 | 34 | 42 | +28 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161 | 5.0 | 22:33 |
| 2021-22 | VGK | 78 | 14 | 38 | 52 | +6 | 24 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 205 | 6.8 | 23:08 |
| 2022-23 | VGK | 55 | 8 | 33 | 41 | +16 | 18 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 136 | 5.9 | 21:26 |
| 2023-24 | VGK | 47 | 5 | 37 | 42 | +4 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 105 | 4.8 | 22:05 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 497 | 71 | 235 | 306 | +68 | 151 | 14 | 1 | 16 | 1260 | 5.6 | 21:17 |
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
47 games, 5 goals and 37 assists for 42 points, 2 on the power play, 6 penalty minutes, 22:05 a night and plus-4, with 1 game-winner. He took 52.9 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 843 minutes, the 75th percentile, and his ice went 40-28 against an expectation of 38.21-34.07.
Two goals of finishing above what the chances were worth and six goals of goaltending above them. Thirty-seven assists in 47 games at twenty-two minutes a night is the highest rate on this blue line by a distance.
The Finesse Game
156 attempts at a median of 51 feet with 71 per cent of them from beyond forty and 8 per cent from inside twenty, 105 of those on goal, converted at 4.8 per cent against a career 5.63 across 1,260 shots.
235 career assists against 71 goals in 497 games. He carries the puck out of his own end rather than passing it there and joins the rush as a fourth forward; the pass is the weapon and 37 assists in 47 games is what it is worth when he is in the lineup.
The Physical Game
He is 6-2 and 197 and took 6 penalty minutes in 47 games.
151 career penalty minutes in 497 games. Six penalty minutes across 47 games at twenty-two minutes a night is one of the cleanest lines a first-pairing defenceman can post, and it comes from a man who defends with his feet and never with his hands.
The Intangibles
Twenty-sixth overall in 2013 by Anaheim, nine seasons, and Vegas is his second organisation.
A career plus-68 and 306 points in 497 games. He is 29, he has played more than 71 games twice in nine seasons, and every one of the seven he has spent here has finished on the right side of the ledger but one.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 843 minutes
- Expected goals
- 52.9%
- 75th pct
- Shot attempts
- 51.7%
- 70th 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: 40 for, 28 against. Expected: 38.2 and 34.1.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 18 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 — 80 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 · 843 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
- VGK took 51.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 52.9% — 1.7 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- First pair, 843 minutes at five-on-five — 43rd percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brayden McNabb | 51.7% | 59.6% | 53.0% |
| Ivan Barbashev | 50.6% | 54.3% | 49.6% |
| Jonathan Marchessault | 49.4% | 54.9% | 50.8% |
51.7% together, 59.6% for him apart and 53.0% for McNabb apart. He was better away from McNabb, who was no worse away from him — the pairing cost him more than it cost McNabb.
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
156 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 7 of them goals. His median goal came from 36 feet. 8% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 71% from beyond forty.