Tony DeAngelo

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

64 games for Carolina, 10 goals and 41 assists at 19:49 a night, plus-30, fifty-six penalty minutes, 151 shots. Nineteenth overall in 2014 by Tampa Bay, six seasons, 270 games, 157 points across four clubs.

The Finesse Game

1.75 even-strength points per 60 is the 7th-best of the 202 defencemen who played forty games, and 7.15 shots per 60 is the 10th-most. Both of those are genuine top-of-the-position rates.

Thirty-nine per cent of his points came on the power play off 3:03 a night, the 13th-most of the 202. That is a specialist’s workload and he produced at it.

55.4 per cent of the expected goals and 54.6 per cent of the attempts. His club finished 2nd in the league in attempt share at 56.2 per cent and 3rd in chances, so both of his shares sit below the season figure of the team he produced them on.

And the chair was the softest available. He took 46.9 per cent of his even-strength ice in the attacking zone, the 2nd-highest of the 192 defencemen the tracking covers, and started 57.2 per cent of his end-zone shifts there — the 117th-highest of the 652 skaters who took two hundred end-zone starts. Fourteen seconds a night short-handed is the 5th percentile.

Fifty-one points, a plus-30, the best possession club in the East, the softest zone assignment at the position and no penalty killing. Every one of those is true at once, and the Flyers finished 27th in attempts.

The Physical Game

1.94 hits per 60 is the 15th percentile and 2.79 blocks per 60 the 18th-fewest of the 202, at 6-0 and 190 pounds. He does not defend by contact and the deployment says nobody asked him to.

0.62 penalties drawn per 60 is the 79th percentile against 0.80 taken, and fifty-six penalty minutes came out of sixty-four games.

The Intangibles

8.80 miles per 60 is the 88th percentile among defencemen and 2.6 bursts over twenty miles an hour per 60 is the 79th, at 6-0 and 190 pounds.

The 21.7 mph top speed is only the 38th percentile, so this is a mover rather than a burner — a small defenceman who covers ground constantly without a high gear.

He is 26 and has 157 points in 270 games. Nothing in this file is fake and almost none of it is portable without checking: the rate is real, the power-play production is real, and the shares and the plus-minus were produced in the softest chair on the second-best possession club in hockey.