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| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-21 | DAL | 26 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 23 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 9.7 | 12:29 |
| 2021-22 | DAL | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 | 10:37 |
| 2022-23 | DAL | 82 | 9 | 19 | 28 | +9 | 54 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 92 | 9.8 | 14:12 |
| 2023-24 | DAL | 42 | 2 | 7 | 9 | -10 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 53 | 3.8 | 12:40 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 151 | 14 | 28 | 42 | -2 | 100 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 177 | 7.9 | 13:27 |
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
42 games with Dallas, 2 goals and 7 assists for 9 points, 23 penalty minutes, 12:40 a night and minus-10. He took 52.4 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 451 minutes, the 71st percentile, and his ice went 18-27 against an expectation of 18.05-16.42.
Level with the chances at the offensive end and eleven goals of goaltending below them at the other, across 451 minutes — the worst such figure of anybody on this roster relative to the ice they played. Nine points in 42 games after 28 in 82 the season before.
The Finesse Game
77 attempts at a median of 26 feet with 35 per cent of them from inside twenty, 52 of those on goal, converted at 3.8 per cent against a career 7.91 across 177 shots.
Fourteen career goals and 28 assists in 151 games. He is quick through the neutral zone and works the puck to the middle rather than around the wall, and 3.8 per cent on 53 shots is a rate that will come back rather than a skill that has gone.
The Physical Game
He is 6-2 and 185 and took 23 penalty minutes.
One hundred career penalty minutes in 151 games. He is tall and light and plays harder than the weight supports; he finishes checks and goes into corners first, and there is more frame here to fill at 24.
The Intangibles
Thirteenth overall in 2018 by Dallas, four seasons, two organisations, and 42 points in 151 games.
A career minus-2 in 151 games. He was a top-fifteen pick who has played one full season in six years, and San Jose is the sort of club where a player finds out whether he can hold a place.
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.
“He is tall and light and plays harder than the weight supports; he finishes checks and goes into corners first, and there is more frame here to fill at 24.”
“He is quick through the neutral zone and works the puck to the middle rather than around the wall, and 3.8 per cent on 53 shots is a rate that will come back rather than a skill that has gone.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 451 minutes
- Expected goals
- 52.4%
- 71st pct
- Shot attempts
- 52.4%
- 75th 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: 18 for, 27 against. Expected: 18.1 and 16.4.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 9 points of one another. 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.
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 — 72 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 · 42 games
- Top speed
- 21.9 mph
- 35th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.64 a game
- Distance
- 2.11 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 85.3 mph
- 40th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.1
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 84.5
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 with DAL · 451 minutes at five-on-five
- Sam Steel27%
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
- DAL took 54.6% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 52.4% — 2.2 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- 451 minutes at five-on-five — 15th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ryan Suter | 56.7% | 49.4% | 53.0% |
| Esa Lindell | 49.5% | 54.2% | 56.4% |
| Radek Faksa | 47.5% | 55.1% | 51.2% |
56.7% together, 49.4% for him apart and 53.0% for Suter 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
77 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 2 of them goals. His median goal came from 26 feet. 35% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 18% from beyond forty.