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William Carrier
Carolina Hurricanes Left Wing
Two hundred and four penalty minutes, a Stanley Cup, and eleven minutes a night.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-17 | BUF | 41 | 5 | 3 | 8 | -1 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 50 | 10.0 | 9:00 |
| 2017-18 | VGK | 37 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -3 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 52 | 1.9 | 8:50 |
| 2018-19 | VGK | 54 | 8 | 1 | 9 | -4 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 85 | 9.4 | 9:57 |
| 2019-20 | VGK | 71 | 7 | 12 | 19 | 0 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 99 | 7.1 | 9:52 |
| 2020-21 | VGK | 52 | 6 | 9 | 15 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 65 | 9.2 | 10:25 |
| 2021-22 | VGK | 63 | 9 | 11 | 20 | +7 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 120 | 7.5 | 11:37 |
| 2022-23 | VGK | 56 | 16 | 9 | 25 | +15 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 118 | 13.6 | 12:35 |
| 2023-24 | VGK | 39 | 6 | 2 | 8 | +3 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 65 | 9.2 | 11:10 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 413 | 58 | 49 | 107 | +17 | 204 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 654 | 8.9 | 10:32 |
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
6 goals and 2 assists in 39 games for Vegas — 8 points at 11:10 a night, plus-3, on 65 shots at 9.23 per cent, and 16 penalty minutes.
58.3 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 431 minutes, the 97th percentile. His ice went 19-19 against an expectation of 21.02-15.03 — four conceded above expectation in a fourth-line role.
The Finesse Game
65 attempts at a median of 21 feet, with 47 per cent from inside 20 and 15 per cent from beyond 40, converting at 9.23 per cent. Fifty-eight goals in 413 career games.
Two assists in thirty-nine games. He does not create, he does not carry the puck and the club does not ask — the job is to arrive first and put the puck behind the defence.
The Physical Game
6-2 and 214, and this is the entire report. He forechecks first and he hurts people, and he is among the hardest forecheckers in the league for the ice he gets.
204 penalty minutes in 413 games and he will fight. He takes liberties and he answers for them. The skating is genuinely quick for the size, which is what makes the forecheck a weapon rather than a gesture.
The Intangibles
Fifty-seventh overall in 2013 by St. Louis, a Stanley Cup with Vegas in 2023, and 413 games across eight seasons at 29, none of them longer than sixty-one.
He was signed here in the summer. A club that lost three top-nine forwards has spent part of the money on a fourth-line forechecker with a Cup ring, and on a roster whose top six is small and quick that is a coherent thought.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 431 minutes
- Expected goals
- 58.3%
- 97th pct
- Shot attempts
- 53.6%
- 83rd 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: 19 for, 19 against. Expected: 21.0 and 15.0.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 42 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 201 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 65 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 VGK · 431 minutes at five-on-five
- Keegan Kolesar60%
- Nicolas Roy47%
- Brett Howden26%
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
- VGK took 51.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 58.3% — 7.1 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Fourth line, 431 minutes at five-on-five — 13th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Keegan Kolesar | 55.6% | 61.9% | 44.4% |
| Nicolas Roy | 61.0% | 56.2% | 48.6% |
| Brayden McNabb | 61.5% | 56.9% | 51.0% |
55.6% together, 61.9% for him apart and 44.4% for Kolesar apart. He was carrying it: the share stayed with him and left Kolesar behind.
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
97 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 6 of them goals. His median goal came from 10 feet. 47% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 15% from beyond forty.