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Centre · #26

Samuel Pahlsson

Age
48
Shoots
Left
Height
183 cm
Weight
92 kg
Born
Ange, SWE
Draft
1996, round 7, #176 (COL)

Career · 2009–10 to 2011–12

Games
222
Goals
12
Points
47
TOI per game
15:35
xGF% (5v5)
46.8%
Goals above expected
−9.2

Season by season

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

2009–10CBJ7931316−916:17933.2%18.0–
2010–11CBJ8271320−1315:201086.5%07.647.0%
2011–12CBJ612911−615:02633.2%05.646.6%
2011–12VAN19246+413:56306.7%01.644.1%
2011–12All teams8041317−214:46934.3%07.246.0%
Total2 teams241143953−2415:282944.8%122.846.5%

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)
00.10.20.30.40.50.650100150200
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Player card

How 2009–10 to 2011–12 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

Extra / AHL

10th 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

Extra / AHL
  • Goals /600.235th pct
  • Assists /600.6323rd pct
  • ixG /600.373rd pct
  • Goals above expected−8.89th pct

Play-driving

Extra / AHL
  • xGF% (5v5)46.5%25th pct
  • CF% (5v5)47.1%24th pct
  • Relative xGF%−3.427th pct
  • Penalty diff /60-0.1919th pct

Usage

3rd line
  • TOI per game15:2860th pct
  • PP time share1.5%12th pct
  • Offensive zone starts23.7%1st pct
  • Quality of competition24.3%52nd 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 Pahlsson wins the draw over 2009–10 to 2011–12, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 610+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

52.4%

1882–1708 · #52 of 179 regulars, 71st percentile

Against an average centre

52.6%

Opponents won 50.2% of their draws; an average centre would have won 49.8% against them.

Wins above average

+95

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

Draws per game

14.9

3,590 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

55%740 · +0.554%258 · +0.945%258 · +2.064%119 · +0.442%119 · +0.559%144 · +0.840%120 · 0.058%954 · +2.247%878 · +1.9Attacking 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 zone50.7% 273–265
  • Neutral zone53.7% 666–575
  • Defensive zone52.1% 943–868

By strength

  • Even strength53.7% 1425–1231
  • Power play53.6% 30–26
  • Shorthanded48.8% 409–429

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +5 after a win, −18 after a loss. Each win was worth 1.4 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Season by season

SeasonDrawsWin rateAgainst average
2009–10126652.7%53.3%
2010–11129852.0%52.2%
2011–12102652.6%52.4%

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.

−9.2 goals above expected

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

−200+20+40+60+80