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Travis Sanheim
Philadelphia Flyers Defense
Forty-four points and twenty-four minutes a night, and twenty-one goals of goaltending lost behind him.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-18 | PHI | 49 | 2 | 8 | 10 | -6 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 72 | 2.8 | 15:35 |
| 2018-19 | PHI | 82 | 9 | 26 | 35 | -4 | 22 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 121 | 7.4 | 19:34 |
| 2019-20 | PHI | 69 | 8 | 17 | 25 | +4 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 110 | 7.3 | 20:09 |
| 2020-21 | PHI | 55 | 3 | 12 | 15 | -22 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 100 | 3.0 | 21:53 |
| 2021-22 | PHI | 80 | 7 | 24 | 31 | +9 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 123 | 5.7 | 22:58 |
| 2022-23 | PHI | 81 | 7 | 16 | 23 | -5 | 40 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 111 | 6.3 | 20:24 |
| 2023-24 | PHI | 81 | 10 | 34 | 44 | -20 | 48 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 146 | 6.9 | 23:48 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 497 | 46 | 137 | 183 | -44 | 219 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 783 | 5.9 | 20:53 |
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
81 games, 10 goals and 34 assists for 44 points, 1 shorthanded, 48 penalty minutes, 23:48 a night and minus-20, with 3 game-winners. He took 52.7 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,529 minutes, the 73rd percentile and the most five-on-five ice on the club, and his ice went 58-77 against an expectation of 62.22-55.88.
Four goals of finishing below what the chances were worth and twenty-one more conceded than they called for — the largest goaltending deficit of anybody on the club. Forty-four points, 34 assists and 10 goals are all career highs, and he finished minus-20.
The Finesse Game
211 attempts at a median of 41 feet with 53 per cent of them from beyond forty and 13 per cent from inside twenty, 146 of those on goal, converted at 6.8 per cent against a career 5.87 across 783 shots.
137 career assists in 497 games. He carries the puck out of his own end rather than rimming it and the first pass is the best on the club. Two career power-play goals in 497 games from a defenceman who has just had a 44-point season is a strange line on the page.
The Physical Game
He is 6-4 and 222 and took 48 penalty minutes.
219 career penalty minutes in 497 games is a very low rate for a man that size taking twenty-four minutes a night. He defends with reach and with skating and almost never with contact; the body is there and has never been the way he plays.
The Intangibles
Seventeenth overall in 2014, seven seasons, all of them in Philadelphia, 183 points in 497 games and a career minus-44.
He played 81 games in the hardest role on the club and came out on the right side of the chances at both ends of it. The minus-20 is a fact about the crease behind him and not about the twenty-four minutes.
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.
- measuredcomputed here from the season's own data
- 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.
- slot-man· shoots from where goals are scored
18.5% of his attempts in the slot, 93rd percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.69) · 44% keep it
- durable· was available
81 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
“He carries the puck out of his own end rather than rimming it and the first pass is the best on the club.”
“He defends with reach and with skating and almost never with contact; the body is there and has never been the way he plays.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 1,529 minutes
- Expected goals
- 52.7%
- 73rd pct
- Shot attempts
- 50.8%
- 61st 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: 58 for, 77 against. Expected: 62.2 and 55.9.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 22 points above where the report does. 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 652 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 70 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.
Tracked
NHL Edge, 2023-24 · 81 games
- Top speed
- 22.1 mph
- 67th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.16 a game
- Distance
- 3.45 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 101.5 mph
- 97th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.7
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 90.2
A top speed is a season's best, and a man who takes more shifts gets more tries at one; the percentile is the feed's own, against every skater, and says less between a top-pair defenceman and a fourth-line wing than it does between two men in the same job. The counts are shown per game for the same reason.
Usual linemates
2023-24 · 1529 minutes at five-on-five
- Cam York70%
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
- PHI took 52.6% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 52.7% — 0.1 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- First pair, 1,529 minutes at five-on-five — 98th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cam York | 50.4% | 57.8% | 58.0% |
| Travis Konecny | 51.1% | 53.3% | 54.9% |
| Sean Couturier | 51.8% | 53.0% | 55.6% |
50.4% together, 57.8% for him apart and 58.0% for York 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
211 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 10 of them goals. His median goal came from 34 feet. 13% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 53% from beyond forty.