Torey Krug

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, 9 goals and 34 assists at 20:34 a night, plus-23, forty-eight penalty minutes, 119 shots. Three of the nine came on the power play and one short-handed. Undrafted, and 638 NHL games and 412 points across eleven seasons out of it.

The Finesse Game

Forty-four per cent of his points came on the power play, the 96th percentile among the 202 defencemen who played forty games, off 2:49 a night at the point at the 89th.

And the chair is the softest on this roster by six points. He started 64.4 per cent of his end-zone shifts in the attacking end — 443 against 245 — which is the 20th-highest of the 652 skaters who took two hundred end-zone starts.

Out of it he took 48.3 per cent of the expected goals, the 37th percentile, and 48.8 per cent of the attempts, the 38th. Both are below even, from the twentieth-softest deployment in hockey.

5.43 shots per 60 is the 75th percentile from a 49-foot median with nine per cent of them from inside twenty feet. He shoots a great deal and from a long way out.

1.23 even-strength points per 60 is the 81st percentile and his ice went 67-41 against an expectation of 47.26-50.63 — twenty more goals in front than the model asked, on the club that finished 2nd in the league in finishing.

The Physical Game

5-9 and 194 pounds, and 1.09 penalties taken per 60 is the 89th percentile against 0.32 drawn at the 34th. The net of minus-0.775 is the 9th-worst of all 202 defencemen.

2.42 hits per 60 is the 24th percentile and 3.19 blocks the 17th.

The Intangibles

21.2 mph is the 16th percentile among defencemen and 0.4 bursts over twenty miles an hour per 60 the 7th — the fewest of any defenceman on this roster.

This is the part of the file worth sitting with. A 5-9 offensive defenceman is expected to be quick, and the tracking says he is not: bottom-fifth top speed, almost never above twenty miles an hour, and an ordinary amount of ground covered.

Nothing here measures edges, pivots or how he escapes a forecheck, which is what a small man of this kind is usually praised for, and the record cannot confirm it either way.

He is 31 with 334 career assists. The power play, the vision and eleven seasons of production are real. A losing possession share out of the twentieth-softest chair in the league, the worst penalty ledger on the club and no speed to fall back on are what the numbers add.