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| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-18 | PIT | 16 | 4 | 2 | 6 | +2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 20 | 20.0 | 11:23 |
| 2018-19 | PIT | 43 | 8 | 9 | 17 | +12 | 26 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 76 | 10.5 | 13:39 |
| 2019-20 | PIT | 57 | 6 | 7 | 13 | +6 | 28 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 98 | 6.1 | 14:25 |
| 2020-21 | PIT | 45 | 9 | 6 | 15 | +10 | 15 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 79 | 11.4 | 14:37 |
| 2021-22 | PIT/ANA | 69 | 5 | 10 | 15 | +9 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 78 | 6.4 | 13:02 |
| 2022-23 | TOR | 77 | 10 | 4 | 14 | -6 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 89 | 11.2 | 10:56 |
| 2023-24 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 307 | 42 | 38 | 80 | +33 | 124 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 440 | 9.6 | 12:60 |
This Season So Far
The 2023-24 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
10 goals and 4 assists in 77 games for Toronto, minus-6, 10:56 a night.
Fourteen points, and ten of them were goals he scored himself. That ratio has been the shape of his whole career: 42 goals and 38 assists in 307 games.
50.2 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 773 minutes, the 54th percentile — above average, on a fourth line, on a very good club — with his ice at 21-27 against an expectation of 28.74-28.46. Eight goals short at the offensive end.
The Finesse Game
89 shots at a median of 22 feet, 46 per cent from inside twenty.
Inside forty: 68 shots, ten goals, 14.71 per cent. Beyond forty: 20 shots, none.
11 backhands and 9 tip-ins out of 89 attempts. He scores from the crease and from below the goal line, which is where a fourth-line winger scores.
85.2 mph at the 13th percentile. The shot is soft and the four assists say the passing is worse.
The Physical Game
6-1 and 203. 22.7 mph at the 72nd percentile with 1.6 bursts over twenty a game at the 76th, and 1.79 miles a game at the 7th percentile — very short shifts at pace, which is the tracking line of a penalty-killing fourth-liner exactly.
25 penalty minutes in 77 games at eleven minutes is a moderate rate. He blocks shots, finishes checks and kills penalties, and that has been the entire job description for six years.
The Intangibles
Undrafted, out of Northeastern, where he led the country in scoring and was a Hobey Baker finalist, before signing with Pittsburgh at 22.
He has played 307 NHL games with three organisations since. The college scoring never translated and the checking role did, which is a common enough story and rarely lasts six years.
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.
“Undrafted, out of Northeastern, where he led the country in scoring and was a Hobey Baker finalist, before signing with Pittsburgh at 22.”
“He blocks shots, finishes checks and kills penalties, and that has been the entire job description for six years.”
“He blocks shots, finishes checks and kills penalties”
“The shot is soft and the four assists say the passing is worse.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2022-23 · 773 minutes
- Expected goals
- 50.2%
- 55th pct
- Shot attempts
- 46.6%
- 26th 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: 21 for, 27 against. Expected: 28.7 and 28.5.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 43 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 638 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 56 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, 2022-23 · 77 games
- Top speed
- 22.7 mph
- 77th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.61 a game
- Distance
- 1.79 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 85.2 mph
- 37th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.0
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 84.9
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
2022-23 with TOR · 773 minutes at five-on-five
- David Kampf55%
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, 2022-23
- The club
- TOR took 54.5% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 50.2% — 4.3 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third line, 773 minutes at five-on-five — 36th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| David Kampf | 46.1% | 55.5% | 51.4% |
| Justin Holl | 52.5% | 49.1% | 53.3% |
| Mark Giordano | 59.1% | 45.9% | 56.4% |
46.1% together, 55.5% for him apart and 51.4% for Kampf 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
139 unblocked shots in 2022-23, 10 of them goals. His median goal came from 16 feet. 46% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 19% from beyond forty.