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Ty Emberson
Edmonton Oilers Defense
Thirty games, nine assists, and the worst chance share of anybody on this roster.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-24 | SJS | 30 | 1 | 9 | 10 | -4 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 3.2 | 18:33 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 30 | 1 | 9 | 10 | -4 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 3.2 | 18:33 |
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
30 games in San Jose, 1 goal and 9 assists for 10 points, 6 penalty minutes, 18:33 a night and minus-4. He took 41.4 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 511 minutes, the 7th percentile, and his ice went 16-20 against an expectation of 15.54-22.01, all of it with the Sharks.
Two goals fewer conceded than the chances called for, on the worst club in the league. Eighteen minutes a night as a rookie on a team that lost sixty games is a number that describes the team.
The Finesse Game
31 shots at a median of 55 feet with 81 per cent from beyond 40, which is the longest average shot on this roster.
Nine assists in 30 games is a genuinely encouraging rate for a rookie defenceman. He makes the first pass under pressure and he does not panic with it, which was worth something on a club that was under pressure constantly.
The Physical Game
He is 6-0 and 193 and defends positionally.
6 penalty minutes in 30 games at eighteen minutes a night is a remarkably low rate. He blocks shots and he does not initiate.
The Intangibles
A third-round pick in 2018 out of Eau Claire, three years at Wisconsin, and a first National Hockey League season at 23. He arrives from San Jose as the seventh defenceman.
The 7th percentile belongs to the Sharks rather than to him, and thirty games is not enough to know anything. He is 24 and cheap and the club needs both.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 511 minutes
- Expected goals
- 41.4%
- 7th pct
- Shot attempts
- 43.6%
- 11th 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: 16 for, 20 against. Expected: 15.5 and 22.0.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 8 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 316 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 57 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 with SJS · 511 minutes at five-on-five
- Mario Ferraro62%
- Marc-Edouard Vlasic14%
- Jacob MacDonaldoff the roster9%
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
- SJS took 40.8% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 41.4% — 0.6 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- 511 minutes at five-on-five — 18th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mario Ferraro | 44.0% | 37.0% | 43.2% |
| William Eklund | 48.2% | 38.1% | 42.3% |
| Fabian Zetterlund | 43.8% | 40.3% | 41.5% |
44.0% together, 37.0% for him apart and 43.2% for Ferraro apart. He was worse away from Ferraro, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Ferraro did.
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
43 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 1 of them goals. His median goal came from 62 feet. 5% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 81% from beyond forty.