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Zack MacEwen
Ottawa Senators Center
Undrafted, 6-4 and 226, and 302 penalty minutes in 216 games at six and a half minutes a night.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | VAN | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.0 | 7:11 |
| 2019-20 | VAN | 17 | 5 | 1 | 6 | +6 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 29.4 | 9:37 |
| 2020-21 | VAN | 34 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -2 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 3.2 | 8:38 |
| 2021-22 | PHI | 75 | 3 | 6 | 9 | -15 | 110 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 82 | 3.7 | 9:40 |
| 2022-23 | PHI/LAK | 56 | 4 | 6 | 10 | -11 | 66 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 73 | 5.5 | 11:35 |
| 2023-24 | OTT | 30 | 2 | 1 | 3 | -4 | 57 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 17 | 11.8 | 6:24 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 216 | 15 | 16 | 31 | -30 | 302 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 222 | 6.8 | 9:30 |
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
30 games, 2 goals and 1 assist for 3 points, 57 penalty minutes, 6:24 a night and minus-4, with 1 game-winner.
Fifty-seven penalty minutes in thirty games at six and a half minutes a night. Thirty games at six and a half minutes leaves too little five-on-five ice to read a chance share from, which is itself the description of the role.
The Finesse Game
28 attempts at a median of 38 feet, 17 of those on goal, converted at 11.8 per cent against a career 6.76 across 222 shots.
15 goals and 16 assists in 216 games. There is no offensive game to describe: the hands are heavy, the shot is ordinary and nothing about the six minutes a night is designed to produce points.
The Physical Game
He is 6-4 and 226 and took 57 penalty minutes in 30 games.
302 career penalty minutes in 216 games. He fights, he finishes every check available to him and he answers for teammates; the whole of the employment is being the largest and least pleasant man on the fourth line, and 110 penalty minutes in a season in Philadelphia is what that looks like at full usage.
The Intangibles
Undrafted, out of Charlottetown, six seasons, four organisations and 31 points in 216 games.
An undrafted forward who has made two hundred and sixteen NHL games out of being willing. He is 28 and the role he plays is being asked for by fewer clubs every season.
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
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 Charlottetown, six seasons, four organisations and 31 points in 216 games.”
“He fights, he finishes every check available to him and he answers for teammates; the whole of the employment is being the largest and least pleasant man on the fourth line, and 110 penalty minutes in a season in Philadelphia is what that looks like at full usage.”
The numbers underneath
Tracked
NHL Edge, 2023-24 · 30 games
- Top speed
- 22.9 mph
- 82nd pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.50 a game
- Distance
- 1.08 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 94.6 mph
- 90th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.1
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 84.5
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
2023-24 · 192 minutes at five-on-five
- Rourke Chartieroff the roster19%
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.
Where he shoots from
goal on goal missed
28 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 2 of them goals. His median goal came from 38 feet. 29% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 43% from beyond forty.