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Tony DeAngelo

Carolina Hurricanes Defense

Forty-two points and a minus-27 in Philadelphia, a year after fifty-one points in Carolina, and now back.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2016-17ARI395914-1337201608.317:06
2017-18NYR32088-1811000680.016:34
2018-19NYR6142630+6770001113.619:20
2019-20NYR68153853+124730314910.119:17
2020-21NYR6011-64000130.018:29
2021-22CAR64104151+30562021516.619:49
2022-23PHI70113142-27734011746.322:04
2023-24 so far
Career34045154199-1630511077266.219:27

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

11 goals and 31 assists in 70 games for Philadelphia — 42 points at 22:04 a night, minus-27, with 73 penalty minutes.

44.9 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,187 minutes, the 19th percentile, and that is the number that matters. His ice went 48-57 against an expectation of 49.2-60.49, so the goals against were actually better than the chances predicted — the minus-27 overstates how badly he was beaten, and the 19th percentile does not.

He had 51 points in 64 games for Carolina the season before this one. The club is buying that back.

The Finesse Game

174 attempts at a median of 49 feet, 67 per cent from beyond forty, off a 91.2 mph shot at the 52nd percentile. Five goals on 114 shots from beyond forty, six on 57 from inside it.

The 31 assists are the skill. He runs a power play, he sees the seam, and 154 assists in 340 career games is a genuine rate for a defenceman. Carolina’s power play was 18th in expected goals a sixty last season and he is the most obvious answer to that.

What he is not is a defender, and a 19th-percentile share of the expected goals over 1,187 minutes is not a small sample or a bad-luck year.

The Physical Game

6-0 and 190, 73 penalty minutes, and a record of taking the penalty that follows losing the argument rather than the puck. The 73 minutes are not the physical game; they are the temper.

3.13 miles a game at the 87th percentile and 21.9 mph at the 34th. He moves constantly and not quickly.

The Intangibles

This is a difficult player to place and the difficulty is not statistical. He has been moved repeatedly and is 27, and one of the clubs that moved him is taking him back after a season in which it conceded 57 goals with him on the ice.

Carolina’s structure is the strongest argument for him: on a club that led the league in shot attempts, the 19th-percentile share may not survive contact with better teammates. That is a bet, and the report should say so rather than pretend the bet has already paid.

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.

  • a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed

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.

  • retaliatesa strength· answers the cross-check, and takes the second penalty

    “a record of taking the penalty that follows losing the argument rather than the puck”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2022-23 · 1,187 minutes

Expected goals
44.9%
20th pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
48.8%
44th pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 48 for, 57 against. Expected: 49.2 and 60.5.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight
Report
40th
Numbers
20th

The report ranks him 20 points above where the numbers do. 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 120 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 61 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 PHI · 1187 minutes at five-on-five

  • Ivan Provorovnow CBJ37%
  • Travis Sanheim28%
  • Nick Seeler23%

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
PHI took 47.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 44.9% — 2.3 below the club he did it on.
The role
Third pair, 1,187 minutes at five-on-five — 82nd percentile in ice time.

With and without

TeammateTogetherHim apartMate apart
Ivan Provorov41.6%46.8%48.0%
Kevin Hayes44.3%45.1%51.1%
Joel Farabee45.4%44.6%45.6%

41.6% together, 46.8% for him apart and 48.0% for Provorov apart. Both were better apart than together — the pairing was doing neither of them any favours.

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

212 unblocked shots in 2022-23, 11 of them goals. His median goal came from 34 feet. 8% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 67% from beyond forty.