Trevor van Riemsdyk

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

72 games, 1 goal and 16 assists at 17:28 a night, minus-3, forty penalty minutes, 75 shots. Undrafted, and 456 games across eight seasons out of it.

The Finesse Game

One goal from seventy-five shots is 1.3 per cent, the 19th-lowest of the 202 defencemen who played forty games, and seventeen goals in 456 career games is the same fact stated longer.

3.58 shots per 60 is the 26th percentile from a 46-foot median — but nineteen per cent of his attempts came from inside twenty feet, the 91st percentile. He gets to the dangerous ice and nothing goes in.

0.906 giveaways per 60 is the 7th-fewest of all 202, which is the single most distinctive number in the file, and 1.43 takeaways per 60 is the 85th percentile.

0.91 even-strength points per 60 is the 46th percentile and none of his seventeen points came on the power play — none in 456 career games.

50.9 per cent of the expected goals is the 57th percentile and 49.1 per cent of the attempts the 42nd, out of 54.9 per cent offensive-zone starts.

His ice went 40-45 against an expectation of 40.38-39.02 — level in front and six more against, which is the one line that argues with the rest of the file.

The Physical Game

6.15 blocks per 60 is the 16th-most of all 202 defencemen who played forty games, at 2:39 a night short-handed.

1.193 hits per 60 is the 7th-fewest of the same 202.

Read those together: he blocks more shots than nearly anybody and hits almost nobody, which is a defensive profile built entirely on position.

0.859 penalties drawn per 60 is the 9th-most at the position against 0.62 taken, a net of plus 0.239 — the 11th-best of the 202.

The Intangibles

His shot is 86.7 mph, the 6th-softest of the 192 tracked defencemen. 8.02 miles per 60 is the 19th-lowest of the same 192, against a 22.3 mph top speed at the 69th percentile.

He is 31, undrafted out of New Hampshire, with eighty-nine points in 456 games. The blocks, the giveaway rate, the penalties drawn and the kill are four genuine third-pair virtues and the sort a club only misses once they are gone. The softest shot on the blue line, one goal in seventy-two games and six more goals against than the model asked are why it is a third pair.