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Right wing · #9

Mike Knuble

Age
54
Shoots
Right
Height
191 cm
Weight
104 kg
Born
Toronto, CAN
Draft
1991, round 4, #76 (DET)

Career · 2009–10 to 2012–13

Games
248
Goals
63
Points
119
TOI per game
15:54
xGF% (5v5)
48.7%
Goals above expected
+3.6

Season by season

The regular-season line for each season, with the total, by team for traded players.

2009–10WSH69292453+2316:5315119.2%1320.7–
2010–11WSH79241640+1017:5320311.8%1225.252.1%
2011–12WSH7261218−1513:57916.6%410.445.6%
2012–13PHI28448−412:553112.9%23.143.0%
Total2 teams2486356119+1415:5447613.2%3159.448.7%

Form

Rolling averages smooth out single games so the trend shows.

Form, ten-game rolling

Points and individual expected goals per game (left scale), averaged over the previous ten games. Ice time is on the second chart.

Points per gameixG per gameTOI per game (minutes)
00.511.550100150200
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Player card

How 2009–10 to 2012–13 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

3rd line

54th percentile among qualified forwards, blending scoring 40%, play-driving 40%, usage 20%.

  1. 1st line
  2. 2nd line
  3. 3rd line
  4. 4th line
  5. Extra / AHL

Scoring

2nd line
  • Goals /600.9680th pct
  • Assists /600.8543rd pct
  • ixG /600.9081st pct
  • Goals above expected+3.676th pct

Play-driving

4th line
  • xGF% (5v5)48.7%41st pct
  • CF% (5v5)48.2%37th pct
  • Relative xGF%−2.135th pct
  • Penalty diff /60-0.556th pct

Usage

2nd line
  • TOI per game15:5468th pct
  • PP time share33.8%65th pct
  • Offensive zone starts62.6%69th pct
  • Quality of competition24.6%61st pct

Percentiles among forwards with 200+ minutes at 5-on-5 and 20+ games. Ratings rank each column's average percentile among the same players and read it as a role on a depth chart (how).

Faceoffs

How often Knuble wins the draw over 2009–10 to 2012–13, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 727+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

38.4%

28–45 · below the 727 draws of a regular

Against an average centre

39.3%

Opponents won 51.0% of their draws; an average centre would have won 49.0% against them.

Wins above average

−8

Draws won beyond what an average centre facing the same opponents would have won.

Draws per game

1.4

73 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

29%7 · +0.930%10 · +6.943%23 · +2.967%3 · 0.020%5 · 0.067%3 · +4.50%2 · –50%2 · +6.639%18 · +0.4Attacking zone →← Defending zone

Win rate at each dot; the small numbers are draws and the xG swing (×100) of winning rather than losing there.

By zone

  • Offensive zone40.6% 13–19
  • Neutral zone35.0% 7–13
  • Defensive zone38.1% 8–13

By strength

  • Even strength42.0% 21–29
  • Power play25.0% 3–9
  • Shorthanded44.4% 4–5

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +36 after a win, −11 after a loss. Each win was worth 2.7 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Season by season

SeasonDrawsWin rateAgainst average
2009–1060.0%1.6%
2010–113330.3%31.4%
2011–122751.9%53.2%
2012–13757.1%55.4%

Finishing

Did the goals match the chances?

Goals against expected goals

Cumulative goals (solid) and individual xG (dashed) through the season. The gap is finishing: above the dashed line, the player scored more than an average shooter would from the same chances.

+3.6 goals above expected

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Goals above expected, everyone at the same position with 20+ games

−200+20+40+60+80