Sonny Milano
Washington Capitals Left Wing
Fifteen goals on 50 shots — 30.0 per cent, the highest rate in this edition among men who took forty.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-16 | CBJ | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.0 | 13:23 |
| 2016-17 | CBJ | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.0 | 11:41 |
| 2017-18 | CBJ | 55 | 14 | 8 | 22 | -8 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 69 | 20.3 | 11:39 |
| 2018-19 | CBJ | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 20.0 | 8:19 |
| 2019-20 | CBJ/ANA | 55 | 7 | 16 | 23 | -7 | 26 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 75 | 9.3 | 13:06 |
| 2020-21 | ANA | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0.0 | 14:44 |
| 2021-22 | ANA | 66 | 14 | 20 | 34 | -9 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 94 | 14.9 | 15:17 |
| 2022-23 | WSH | 64 | 11 | 22 | 33 | -5 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 80 | 13.8 | 12:54 |
| 2023-24 | WSH | 49 | 15 | 8 | 23 | +4 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 50 | 30.0 | 12:30 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 310 | 62 | 75 | 137 | -27 | 74 | 10 | 0 | 13 | 385 | 16.1 | 13:04 |
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
49 games, 15 goals and 8 assists for 23 points, 3 on the power play, 10 penalty minutes, 12:30 a night and plus-4, with 2 game-winners. He took 51.2 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 563 minutes, the 62nd percentile, and his ice went 25-19 against an expectation of 21.42-20.43.
Four goals of finishing above what the chances were worth and a goal of goaltending above them. Fifteen goals on 50 shots is a 30.0 per cent rate, the highest of anybody in this edition who took forty, and it is a rate nobody sustains.
The Finesse Game
67 attempts at a median of 18 feet with 57 per cent of them from inside twenty and 6 per cent from beyond forty, 50 of those on goal, converted at 30.0 per cent against a career 16.10 across 385 shots.
Sixty-two career goals and 75 assists in 310 games. Six per cent of his attempts came from beyond forty feet, the lowest share on this club; he does not shoot unless he is inside the dots, which is why a career 16.10 per cent has held across three hundred and eighty-five shots.
The Physical Game
He is 6-0 and 205 and took 10 penalty minutes.
Seventy-four career penalty minutes in 310 games. He is a reasonable size and plays no physical game at all; the puck is received rather than won, and nine seasons of clubs weighing that against the finishing have ended with him on his third.
The Intangibles
Sixteenth overall in 2014 by Columbus, nine seasons, and Washington is his third organisation.
A career minus-27 and 13 game-winners in 310 games. He was a first-round pick, he is 28, and he has never played more than 66 games in a season.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 563 minutes
- Expected goals
- 51.2%
- 62nd pct
- Shot attempts
- 47.9%
- 34th 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: 25 for, 19 against. Expected: 21.4 and 20.4.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe 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 652 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 75 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 · 563 minutes at five-on-five
- Dylan Strome32%
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
- WSH took 47.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 51.2% — 4.0 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Fourth line, 563 minutes at five-on-five — 22nd percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| John Carlson | 52.3% | 50.5% | 47.0% |
| Max Pacioretty | 53.5% | 49.9% | 46.5% |
| Dylan Strome | 54.9% | 49.1% | 54.1% |
52.3% together, 50.5% for him apart and 47.0% for Carlson apart. Carlson was worse away from him while his own share held — the pairing was doing more for Carlson than for 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
67 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 16 of them goals. His median goal came from 12 feet. 57% of his shots came from inside twenty feet.