Left wing · #25
Steve Begin
- Age
- 48
- Shoots
- Left
- Height
- 183 cm
- Weight
- 87 kg
- Born
- Trois-Rivières, CAN
- Draft
- 1996, round 2, #40 (CGY)
Career · 3 seasons
- Games
- 77
- Goals
- 5
- Points
- 14
- TOI per game
- 12:50
- xGF% (5v5)
- –
- Goals above expected
- −4.2
Season by season
The regular-season line for each season, with the total, by team for traded players.
Form
Rolling averages smooth out single games so the trend shows.
Points and individual expected goals per game (left scale), averaged over the previous ten games. Ice time is on the second chart.
Player card
How 3 seasons compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.
Overall rating
Extra / AHL
11th percentile among qualified forwards, blending scoring 40%, play-driving 40%, usage 20%.
- 1st line
- 2nd line
- 3rd line
- 4th line
- Extra / AHL
Scoring
Extra / AHL- Goals /600.4217th pct
- Assists /600.6018th pct
- ixG /600.5621st pct
- Goals above expected−3.125th pct
Play-driving
4th line- xGF% (5v5)47.8%34th pct
- CF% (5v5)47.7%30th pct
- Relative xGF%−0.647th pct
- Penalty diff /60-0.1425th pct
Usage
Extra / AHL- TOI per game11:1620th pct
- PP time share0.5%3rd pct
- Offensive zone starts42.5%16th pct
- Quality of competition22.9%7th 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).
Most similar players this season
Faceoffs
How often Begin wins the draw over 3 seasons, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 522+ draws over the same seasons.
Win rate
52.6%
425–383 · #52 of 177 regulars, 71st percentile
Against an average centre
52.6%
Opponents won 50.0% of their draws; an average centre would have won 50.0% against them.
Wins above average
+21
Draws won beyond what an average centre facing the same opponents would have won.
Draws per game
7.6
808 draws in all.
By dot, attacking to the right
Win rate at each dot; the small numbers are draws and the xG swing (×100) of winning rather than losing there.
By zone
- Offensive zone51.6% 98–92
- Neutral zone54.8% 182–150
- Defensive zone50.7% 145–141
By strength
- Even strength54.6% 357–297
- Power play50.0% 5–5
- Shorthanded44.3% 62–78
What a win leads to
Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +11 after a win, −16 after a loss. Each win was worth 1.3 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.
Most-faced opponents
- John Tavares52.6% 10–9
- Maxim Lapierre47.1% 8–9
- Scott Gomez56.3% 9–7
- Nicklas Backstrom20.0% 3–12
- Rich Peverley60.0% 9–6
- Glen Metropolit73.3% 11–4
- Tomas Plekanec57.1% 8–6
- Jordan Staal71.4% 10–4
Season by season
| Season | Draws | Win rate | Against average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009–10 | 691 | 53.3% | 53.2% |
| 2012–13 | 117 | 48.7% | 49.1% |
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.
−4.2 goals above expected
Goals above expected, everyone at the same position with 20+ games