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Vincent Desharnais
Vancouver Canucks Defense
Six-seven, a seventh-round pick, and fifteen goals of finishing below what his ice was worth.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-23 | EDM | 36 | 0 | 5 | 5 | +15 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 0.0 | 13:33 |
| 2023-24 | EDM | 78 | 1 | 10 | 11 | +3 | 54 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 41 | 2.4 | 15:44 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 114 | 1 | 15 | 16 | +18 | 85 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 58 | 1.7 | 15:03 |
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
78 games with Edmonton, 1 goal and 10 assists for 11 points, 54 penalty minutes, 15:44 a night and plus-3. He took 53.8 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,075 minutes, the 81st percentile, and his ice went 29-30 against an expectation of 44.35-38.07.
Fifteen goals of finishing below what the chances were worth and eight goals of goaltending above them. Twenty-nine goals for against 44.35 expected is the largest finishing shortfall of anybody in this chapter, and none of it is a defenceman’s doing.
The Finesse Game
59 attempts at a median of 56 feet with 81 per cent of them from beyond forty and 2 per cent from inside twenty, 40 of those on goal, converted at 2.4 per cent against a career 1.72 across 58 shots.
One career goal and 15 assists in 114 games. There is no offence here of any kind; the puck goes at the net from the point or off the glass, and one goal in two seasons is not an accident of sample.
The Physical Game
He is 6-7 and 225 and took 54 penalty minutes.
Eighty-five career penalty minutes in 114 games. At 6-7 he owns the front of his own net without having to move, and the reach takes the cross-ice pass away before the puck is on the stick; everything he is paid for happens inside fifteen feet of his own goaltender.
The Intangibles
One hundred and eighty-third overall in 2016 by Edmonton, two seasons, and Vancouver will be his second organisation.
A career plus-18 in 114 games. He was a seventh-round pick who did not reach the league until he was 26, and he has played 114 games in the two seasons since.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 1,075 minutes
- Expected goals
- 53.8%
- 81st pct
- Shot attempts
- 52.1%
- 73rd 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: 29 for, 30 against. Expected: 44.4 and 38.1.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 34 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 652 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 69 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 EDM · 1075 minutes at five-on-five
- Brett Kulak69%
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
- EDM took 56.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 53.8% — 3.1 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third pair, 1,075 minutes at five-on-five — 68th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brett Kulak | 53.6% | 54.3% | 56.0% |
| Ryan McLeod | 51.3% | 54.9% | 58.8% |
| Evander Kane | 55.5% | 53.1% | 50.3% |
53.6% together, 54.3% for him apart and 56.0% for Kulak apart. Splitting them up moved neither man. Whatever is driving the share, it is not this pairing.
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
59 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 1 of them goals. His median goal came from 59 feet. 2% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 81% from beyond forty.