- Age
- 49
- Shoots
- Left
- Height
- 180 cm
- Weight
- 95 kg
- Born
- Alameda, CAN
- Draft
- 1996, round 4, #100 (BOS)
Career · 2 seasons
- Games
- 17
- Goals
- 0
- Points
- 1
- TOI per game
- 11:13
- xGF% (5v5)
- 79.5%
- Goals above expected
- −1.3
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 2 seasons compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.
Overall rating
3rd line
42nd 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 /600.001st pct
- Assists /600.314th pct
- ixG /600.426th pct
- Goals above expected−1.343rd pct
Play-driving
1st line- xGF% (5v5)79.5%100th pct
- CF% (5v5)69.6%100th pct
- Relative xGF%+19.0100th pct
- Penalty diff /600.0041st pct
Usage
4th line- TOI per game11:1318th pct
- PP time share–
- Offensive zone starts85.7%100th pct
- Quality of competition24.0%41st 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). This player is below the threshold, so the percentiles and ratings are for reference only.
Most similar players this season
Needs a regular role to compare.
Faceoffs
How often Whitfield wins the draw over 2 seasons, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 407+ draws over the same seasons.
Win rate
57.9%
103–75 · below the 407 draws of a regular
Against an average centre
58.2%
Opponents won 50.3% of their draws; an average centre would have won 49.7% against them.
Wins above average
+15
Draws won beyond what an average centre facing the same opponents would have won.
Draws per game
11.1
178 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 zone66.7% 38–19
- Neutral zone43.1% 28–37
- Defensive zone66.1% 37–19
By strength
- Even strength59.9% 91–61
- Power play57.1% 4–3
- Shorthanded37.5% 6–10
What a win leads to
Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +10 after a win, −13 after a loss. Each win was worth 1.8 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.
Most-faced opponents
- Jason Spezza70.0% 7–3
- Darren Helm71.4% 5–2
- Claude Giroux83.3% 5–1
- Justin Abdelkader83.3% 5–1
- Tim Kennedy50.0% 3–3
- Jarret Stoll66.7% 4–2
- Anze Kopitar83.3% 5–1
- Mike Fisher50.0% 3–3
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.
−1.3 goals above expected
Goals above expected, everyone at the same position with 20+ games