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Tyler Pitlick

Five points in thirty-nine games at 10:56 a night, and St Louis is his seventh organisation.

Season	Team	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	PP	SH	GW	S	S%	TOI

2013-14	EDM	10	1	0	1	-2	0	0	0	0	9	11.1	8:58
2014-15	EDM	17	2	0	2	-3	4	0	0	1	18	11.1	12:27
2016-17	EDM	31	8	3	11	0	6	0	0	1	54	14.8	9:55
2017-18	DAL	80	14	13	27	+9	34	0	0	2	129	10.8	13:41
2018-19	DAL	47	8	4	12	-2	6	1	0	1	75	10.7	13:23
2019-20	PHI	63	8	12	20	+11	12	0	0	1	76	10.5	12:03
2020-21	ARI	38	6	5	11	-1	16	0	1	0	56	10.7	16:22
2021-22	CGY/MTL	39	1	4	5	-11	6	0	0	0	36	2.8	10:56
2022-23 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	325	48	41	89	+1	84	1	1	6	453	10.6	12:44

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

39 games between Calgary and Montreal, 1 goal and 4 assists at 10:56 a night, minus-11, six penalty minutes, 36 shots. Thirty-first overall in 2010 by Edmonton — the second round — eight seasons, 325 games, 89 points.

Four hundred and ten minutes of five-on-five ice is short of the five hundred this book requires before it will place a man in the league distribution, so what follows is described rather than ranked.

The Finesse Game

One goal from thirty-six shots, from a 26-foot median with a third of them from inside twenty feet.

49.3 per cent of the expected goals across 410 five-on-five minutes, split between two clubs at opposite ends of the league — Calgary finished 3rd in attempt share and Montreal 25th and last in the standings — so the figure is an average of two very different sets of minutes and cannot be read as his.

He started 48.8 per cent of his end-zone shifts in the attacking end, the 282nd-lowest of the 652 skaters who took two hundred end-zone starts — a chair a shade under even.

His ice went 9-20 against an expectation of 16.75-17.22. Almost eight goals short in front and three more against, across a third of a season split between two clubs.

The Physical Game

6-2 and 199 pounds, and six penalty minutes in thirty-nine games. Eighty-four across a 325-game career — he has never been a penalty problem.

The Intangibles

22.6 mph top speed and 1.9 bursts a game, both drawn from thirty-nine games and neither comparable to a full season.

1.91 miles a game is the 10th percentile of the 568 skaters the tracking covers with forty games, which at under eleven minutes a night is the shift length rather than the skater.

His shot is 86.6 mph, the 18th percentile.

He is 30, an eighth season, and has never scored more than fourteen goals or played more than seventy-one games. Eighty-nine points in 325 games across six previous organisations is a settled level. What he offers a club that scored 311 goals is a thirteenth forward who does not take penalties, and the record does not offer more than that.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2021-22 · 410 minutes

Expected goals: 49.3%; 50th pct
Shot attempts: 46.3%; 24th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 9 for, 20 against. Expected: 16.8 and 17.2.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

43rd

Numbers

50th

The two rank him within 7 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 649 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 59 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, 2021-22 · 39 games

Top speed: 22.6 mph; 74th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 1.87 a game
Distance: 1.91 miles a game
Hardest shot: 86.6 mph; 47th pct

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

2021-22 with CGY · 286 minutes at five-on-five

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, 2021-22

The club: MTL took 46.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 49.3% — 3.1 above the club he did it on.
The role: 410 minutes at five-on-five — 13th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Blake Coleman	55.2%	45.5%	56.6%
Mikael Backlund	50.5%	48.6%	57.0%
Christopher Tanev	52.1%	48.5%	54.9%

55.2% together, 45.5% for him apart and 56.6% for Coleman apart. He was worse away from Coleman, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Coleman 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

51 unblocked shots in 2021-22, 1 of them goals. His median goal came from 17 feet. 35% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 25% from beyond forty.