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Trevor Lewis

Los Angeles Kings Center

Nine hundred and seventy-four games, eleven career shorthanded goals, and a seventeenth season at 37.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2008-09LAK6123000001010.011:36
2009-10LAK5000-3000040.09:08
2010-11LAK7231013-1160021052.911:29
2011-12LAK72347-3260011032.913:14
2012-13LAK485914+519012925.415:12
2013-14LAK736511-160121115.413:15
2014-15LAK7391625+8140121436.314:06
2015-16LAK758816-10200111674.814:34
2016-17LAK82121224-6301031458.314:16
2017-18LAK68141226-62512313410.415:14
2018-19LAK443912-99001873.514:01
2019-20LAK566612-716001926.511:54
2020-21WPG565510+72021687.39:52
2021-22CGY8061016-1120111085.612:50
2022-23CGY8291120-7181111446.312:07
2023-24LAK828816+7200121306.211:38
2024-25 so far
Career97498127225-372233112316436.013:04

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

All 82 games, 8 goals and 8 assists for 16 points, 1 shorthanded, 20 penalty minutes, 11:38 a night and plus-7. He took 51.9 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 807 minutes, the 67th percentile, and his ice went 24-21 against an expectation of 29.49-27.38.

Five goals of scoring that did not arrive and six fewer conceded than the chances called for. Eighty-two games at 37 on a fourth line, which is the whole of what is being asked.

The Finesse Game

130 shots at a median of 31 feet with 33 per cent from beyond 40, converted at 6.2 per cent against a career 6.0.

127 career assists in 974 games. There has never been any offence and there was never meant to be. Ninety-eight goals in nine hundred and seventy-four games is a career built on everything else.

The Physical Game

He is 6-1 and 205 and finishes checks without hurting anybody.

20 penalty minutes in 82 games is a very low rate. He blocks shots, takes the defensive-zone draw, and gets out of the way of everything that does not concern him.

The Intangibles

Seventeenth overall in 2006 out of Salt Lake City, sixteen seasons, 974 games and two Stanley Cups. He kills penalties and has 11 career shorthanded goals in 974 games.

He is 37 and has played 82 games in each of the last two seasons. A career minus-37 across sixteen years describes the assignment rather than the man.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 807 minutes

Expected goals
51.9%
67th pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
52.7%
77th pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 24 for, 21 against. Expected: 29.5 and 27.4.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight
Report
27th
Numbers
67th

The numbers rank him 40 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 415 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

2023-24 · 807 minutes at five-on-five

  • Blake Lizottenow PIT59%
  • Carl Grundstromnow SJS36%
  • Arthur Kaliyevnow NYR17%

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
LAK took 54.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 51.9% — 2.2 below the club he did it on.
The role
Fourth line, 807 minutes at five-on-five — 39th percentile in ice time.

With and without

TeammateTogetherHim apartMate apart
Blake Lizotte54.2%48.5%43.8%
Carl Grundstrom52.0%51.7%55.2%
Matt Roy55.7%49.7%55.2%

54.2% together, 48.5% for him apart and 43.8% for Lizotte apart. Both were worse apart, so whatever the two of them had together was doing real work.

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

156 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 9 of them goals. His median goal came from 14 feet. 37% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 33% from beyond forty.