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| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-18 | VGK | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 16:42 |
| 2019-20 | VGK | 16 | 0 | 1 | 1 | +3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0.0 | 14:19 |
| 2020-21 | VGK | 51 | 2 | 10 | 12 | +9 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 54 | 3.7 | 17:49 |
| 2021-22 | VGK | 59 | 8 | 11 | 19 | +21 | 20 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 94 | 8.5 | 18:48 |
| 2022-23 | VGK | 59 | 5 | 7 | 12 | +10 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 64 | 7.8 | 17:07 |
| 2023-24 | VGK | 61 | 2 | 12 | 14 | -3 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 51 | 3.9 | 17:35 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 247 | 17 | 41 | 58 | +43 | 121 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 272 | 6.3 | 17:36 |
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
61 games, 2 goals and 12 assists for 14 points, 32 penalty minutes, 17:35 a night and minus-3, with 1 game-winner. He took 51.0 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 976 minutes, the 61st percentile, and his ice went 34-37 against an expectation of 36.24-34.87.
Two goals of finishing below what the chances were worth and two more conceded than they called for. The minus-3 is the first negative figure he has posted in five seasons of regular work.
The Finesse Game
79 attempts at a median of 55 feet with 70 per cent of them from beyond forty and 8 per cent from inside twenty, 51 of those on goal, converted at 3.9 per cent against a career 6.25 across 272 shots.
Seventeen career goals and no power-play goals at all in 247 games. Seventy-nine attempts in 61 games at seventeen and a half minutes a night is very little shooting; the first pass is quick and clean and that is the whole of the offensive contribution.
The Physical Game
He is 6-2 and 210 and took 32 penalty minutes.
121 career penalty minutes in 247 games. He defends through contact without ever crossing the line into a penalty problem, clearing the crease and closing on the wall at a rate that has cost him half a penalty minute a game.
The Intangibles
Undrafted, six seasons, one organisation, and 58 points in 247 games.
A career plus-43 in 247 games from a man nobody drafted. He has played every one of his 247 NHL games for this club and took seventeen and a half minutes a night last season.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 976 minutes
- Expected goals
- 51%
- 61st pct
- Shot attempts
- 48%
- 35th 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: 34 for, 37 against. Expected: 36.2 and 34.9.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 19 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 — 76 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 · 976 minutes at five-on-five
- Ben Hutton17%
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 51.0% — 0.2 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Second pair, 976 minutes at five-on-five — 55th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nicolas Hague | 48.4% | 54.9% | 51.6% |
| Paul Cotter | 58.7% | 48.5% | 49.2% |
| Ivan Barbashev | 44.6% | 53.2% | 51.0% |
48.4% together, 54.9% for him apart and 51.6% for Hague apart. Both were better apart than together — the pairing was doing neither of them any favours.
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
79 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 2 of them goals. His median goal came from 34 feet. 8% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 70% from beyond forty.