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About Player Cards

Player cards present an infographic of a players performance using a series of Player Archetypes developed for Puckalytics.com and TheStanleyCap.com. The boxes in the rink image show the archetype ratings for the season specified in the card while the graphs to the right show the five-year trends for those archetypes.

Except for Faceoffs, the values shown are the players z-score (standard deviation from the mean) for the specific metric used to calculate the archetype values. When calculating z-scores forwards were compared to forwards and defensemen were compared to defensemen. Positive values indicate the player is above average and shaded in blue, while negative values indicate the player is below average and shaded in punk. The five year trend charts show a range of -4.0 to 4.0.

The value shown for Faceoffs is the faceoff winning percentage rather than their z-score with winning percentages below 50 in pink shades and above 50 in blue shades.

All archetypes are 5v5 except 5v4 TOI, 4v5 TOI, Skating (even strength) and Faceoffs (all situations). Archetypes use regular season data only.

Archetypes Summary

• Sniper - Measures the to score above the expected goal rate.
• Rebound - Measures the percent of a players shot attempts that come from rebounds (forwards only).
• 5v4 TOI - Powerplay ice time, calculated as the percentage of his teams 5v4 ice time that the player was on the ice for.
• Shooter - Measures whether a players points come from shots (goals or assists on rebounds from his shots).
• Producer - Measures a players ability to produce goals and assists, adjusted for quality of teammates.
• Playmaker - Measures whether a players points come from passes.
• Drive - Measures a players ability to drive puck possession and generate shot attempts for his team.
• Rush - Measures the percent of a players shot attempts that come from rush plays
• Possession - An indicator of a players ability to improve his teams puck possession game.
• Faceoffs - Faceoff Winning Percentage (min. 75 faceoffs taken).
• 5v5 TOI - The percentage of his teams 5v5 TOI that the player was on the ice for.
• Suppress - Measures a players ability to suppress opponent puck possession and shot attempts against.
• Skating - An indicator of a players skating ability, or speed bursts above 20mph per mile skated.
• Defend - An indicator of a players ability to suppress shot quality against.
• 4v5 TOI - Penalty Kill ice time, calculated as the percentage of his teams 4v5 ice time that the player was on the ice for.

Data Sources

• Salary data is from TheStanleyCap.com
• Shooting and Skating (except Sh%AE) are from NHL Edge
• Other statistics are from Puckalytics.com and derived from data from NHL.com

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Read Introducing Player Archetypes on HockeyAnalysis.com for more details on archetype calculations.

5v5 Goalie Stats

4v5 Goalie Stats