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Zach Bogosian
Tampa Bay Lightning Defense
The 2nd-worst penalty differential of all 202 defencemen, and the 93rd-percentile hit rate.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008-09 | ATL | 47 | 9 | 10 | 19 | +11 | 47 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 90 | 10.0 | 18:06 |
| 2009-10 | ATL | 81 | 10 | 13 | 23 | -18 | 61 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 155 | 6.5 | 21:25 |
| 2010-11 | ATL | 71 | 5 | 12 | 17 | -27 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 155 | 3.2 | 22:24 |
| 2011-12 | WPG | 65 | 5 | 25 | 30 | -3 | 71 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 150 | 3.3 | 23:19 |
| 2012-13 | WPG | 33 | 5 | 9 | 14 | -5 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 85 | 5.9 | 23:07 |
| 2013-14 | WPG | 55 | 3 | 8 | 11 | +3 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 134 | 2.2 | 22:55 |
| 2014-15 | WPG/BUF | 62 | 3 | 17 | 20 | -6 | 78 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 125 | 2.4 | 23:39 |
| 2015-16 | BUF | 64 | 7 | 17 | 24 | -11 | 68 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 121 | 5.8 | 22:21 |
| 2016-17 | BUF | 56 | 2 | 9 | 11 | -17 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 73 | 2.7 | 20:05 |
| 2017-18 | BUF | 18 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -9 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 0.0 | 19:09 |
| 2018-19 | BUF | 65 | 3 | 16 | 19 | -5 | 52 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 93 | 3.2 | 21:38 |
| 2019-20 | BUF/TBL | 27 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 3.5 | 16:38 |
| 2020-21 | TOR | 45 | 0 | 4 | 4 | +7 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 0.0 | 14:32 |
| 2021-22 | TBL | 48 | 3 | 5 | 8 | +2 | 53 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 60 | 5.0 | 15:22 |
| 2022-23 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 737 | 56 | 152 | 208 | -78 | 673 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 1335 | 4.2 | 20:48 |
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
48 games, 3 goals and 5 assists at 15:22 a night, plus-2, fifty-three penalty minutes, 60 shots. Third overall in 2008 by Atlanta, fourteen seasons, 737 games, 208 points.
The Finesse Game
46.4 per cent of the attempts is the 20th percentile among the 202 defencemen who played forty games and 47.8 per cent of the expected goals the 35th.
Both are the worst on this blue line, and the chair does not explain them: 47.5 per cent offensive-zone starts is the 249th-lowest of the 652 skaters who took two hundred end-zone starts — a shade under even, and two Tampa defencemen took harder ones.
0.67 even-strength points per 60 is the 20th percentile and 0.57 takeaways per 60 the 17th.
4.88 shots per 60 is the 59th percentile at 5.0 per cent, from a 48-foot median with seven per cent from the slot.
His ice went 22-21 against an expectation of 29.63-32.42 — seven and a half short in front and eleven fewer against, which is why a man with the club’s worst possession numbers finished plus-2.
The Physical Game
1.46 penalties taken per 60 is the 96th percentile among defencemen and the net of minus-1.06 is the 2nd-worst of all 202.
9.28 hits per 60 is the 93rd percentile among defencemen, at 6-3 and 231 pounds on a 15:22 shift.
Those two go together and the second is not worth the first on a club that spent 4:59 a game short-handed — the 10th-largest penalty-killing workload in the league.
2.77 blocks per 60 is the 8th percentile, which for a defensive defenceman is the number that does not fit.
The Intangibles
21.8 mph is the 42nd percentile, 2.1 bursts over twenty miles an hour per 60 the 66th and 8.68 miles per 60 the 74th.
Ordinary in all three at 32, and his shot is 96.8 mph at the 73rd.
He is 32, third overall in 2008, with 208 points in 737 games across fourteen seasons. The hitting and fourteen seasons in the league are the case. The worst possession pair on the club, the 8th-percentile block rate and the second-worst penalty ledger of 202 defencemen are three separate reasons the ice stops at fifteen minutes.
What kind of player
The searchable half of the report. The first group is computed from the season's own data; the rest are read out of the prose above, and each one carries the sentence that produced it. A subject the report never raised is simply absent.
- a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed
- he lacks itraised, and he does not have it
Each computed tag also says how well its measure holds up from one season to the next, because a tag describes a season that has finished and a reader will assume it predicts the one coming. Some do and some do not, and the gap is wide: five-on-five workload repeats well, scoring late does not repeat at all.
“9.28 hits per 60 is the 93rd percentile among defencemen, at 6-3 and 231 pounds on a 15:22 shift.”
“1.46 penalties taken per 60 is the 96th percentile among defencemen and the net of minus-1.06 is the 2nd-worst of all 202.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2021-22 · 713 minutes
- Expected goals
- 47.8%
- 37th pct
- Shot attempts
- 46.4%
- 25th 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: 22 for, 21 against. Expected: 29.6 and 32.4.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe report ranks him 21 points above where the numbers do. 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 649 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 62 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 · 48 games
- Top speed
- 21.8 mph
- 61st pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.54 a game
- Distance
- 2.22 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 96.8 mph
- 81st pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.5
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 90.4
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 · 713 minutes at five-on-five
- Cal Foote16%
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
- TBL took 52.5% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 47.8% — 4.7 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- 713 minutes at five-on-five — 34th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ryan McDonagh | 46.9% | 48.4% | 50.5% |
| Corey Perry | 51.7% | 46.3% | 57.0% |
| Ross Colton | 47.2% | 48.0% | 55.2% |
46.9% together, 48.4% for him apart and 50.5% for McDonagh apart. McDonagh was better away from him while his own share held, which is a mark against him more than for him.
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
76 unblocked shots in 2021-22, 3 of them goals. His median goal came from 30 feet. 5% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 70% from beyond forty.