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Will Borgen
Seattle Kraken Defense
The most distant shot chart on the club — 78 per cent from beyond forty feet — and zero power-play goals in 214 games.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | BUF | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.0 | 16:33 |
| 2020-21 | BUF | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0.0 | 16:16 |
| 2021-22 | SEA | 36 | 2 | 6 | 8 | +1 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 49 | 4.1 | 15:17 |
| 2022-23 | SEA | 82 | 3 | 17 | 20 | +11 | 47 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 76 | 4.0 | 16:22 |
| 2023-24 | SEA | 82 | 3 | 22 | 25 | -5 | 65 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 97 | 3.1 | 17:35 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 214 | 8 | 45 | 53 | -2 | 144 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 231 | 3.5 | 16:39 |
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
82 games, 3 goals and 22 assists for 25 points, none on the power play, 65 penalty minutes, 17:35 a night and minus-5. He took 49.8 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,314 minutes, the 51st percentile, and his ice went 49-58 against an expectation of 53.23-53.70.
Four goals of finishing below what the chances were worth and four more conceded than they called for. Twenty-five points is a career high by five and it is the second season in a row he has played all 82.
The Finesse Game
150 attempts at a median of 57 feet with 78 per cent of them from beyond forty and 7 per cent from inside twenty, 95 of those on goal, converted at 3.2 per cent against a career 3.46 across 231 shots.
Zero power-play goals in 214 career games. A fifty-seven-foot median attempt is the most distant shot chart on this club by two and a half feet; he shoots from the blue line to be tipped and 45 career assists in 214 games is the honest measure of what he adds going forward.
The Physical Game
He is 6-3 and 199 and took 65 penalty minutes.
144 career penalty minutes in 214 games. He defends by closing the gap and finishing the check and does it hard enough to be caught doing it, and 65 minutes in a season is a high total for a man playing seventeen and a half a night.
The Intangibles
Ninety-second overall in 2015 by Buffalo, five seasons, two organisations, and 53 points in 214 games.
He was a fourth-round pick who played 14 NHL games in his first two seasons in the league and 200 in the three since. A career minus-2 on clubs that were mostly outscored is a defenceman who has held his end up.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 1,314 minutes
- Expected goals
- 49.8%
- 51st pct
- Shot attempts
- 47.5%
- 31st 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: 49 for, 58 against. Expected: 53.2 and 53.7.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 4 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 — 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 · 1314 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, 2023-24
- The club
- SEA took 50.8% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 49.8% — 1.0 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Second pair, 1,314 minutes at five-on-five — 90th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jamie Oleksiak | 49.9% | 49.0% | 49.5% |
| Oliver Bjorkstrand | 52.2% | 48.6% | 51.0% |
| Yanni Gourde | 46.2% | 51.4% | 50.9% |
49.9% together, 49.0% for him apart and 49.5% for Oleksiak 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
150 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 3 of them goals. His median goal came from 44 feet. 7% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 78% from beyond forty.