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Right wing · #26

Martin St. Louis

Tampa Bay Lightning New York Rangers(traded during the season)
Age
51
Shoots
Left
Height
173 cm
Weight
82 kg
Born
Laval, CAN
Draft
Undrafted

Career · 2009–10 to 2014–15

Games
444
Goals
153
Points
448
TOI per game
20:57
xGF% (5v5)
50.3%
Goals above expected
+28.8

Season by season

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

2009–10TBL82296594−821:4924212.0%3724.5–
2010–11TBL82316899020:5925412.2%4126.356.0%
2011–12TBL77254974−322:3818513.5%1619.147.7%
2012–13TBL48174360021:5911215.2%2012.648.3%
2013–14TBL62293261+1221:4116717.4%1817.850.4%
2013–14NYR19178+118:30372.7%34.048.3%
2013–14All teams81303969+1320:5620414.7%2121.949.9%
2014–15NYR74213152+1217:3414414.6%1319.949.2%
Total2 teams444153295448+1420:571,14113.4%148124.250.3%

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)
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Player card

How 2009–10 to 2014–15 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

1st line

93rd 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

1st line
  • Goals /600.9987th pct
  • Assists /601.9099th pct
  • ixG /600.8069th pct
  • Goals above expected+28.898th pct

Play-driving

2nd line
  • xGF% (5v5)50.3%58th pct
  • CF% (5v5)48.8%43rd pct
  • Relative xGF%−0.550th pct
  • Penalty diff /600.6895th pct

Usage

1st line
  • TOI per game20:5799th pct
  • PP time share64.5%99th pct
  • Offensive zone starts67.8%86th pct
  • Quality of competition25.4%92nd 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 St. Louis wins the draw over 2009–10 to 2014–15, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 1134+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

42.6%

270–364 · below the 1134 draws of a regular

Against an average centre

42.8%

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

Wins above average

−46

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

Draws per game

2.7

634 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

43%75 · +0.543%235 · +0.939%75 · +4.350%34 · +0.515%13 · −0.141%51 · +1.953%17 · +1.343%102 · −0.547%32 · +2.3Attacking 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 zone41.2% 127–181
  • Neutral zone43.0% 80–106
  • Defensive zone45.0% 63–77

By strength

  • Even strength44.6% 241–299
  • Power play30.9% 17–38
  • Shorthanded33.3% 11–22

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +12 after a win, −10 after a loss. Each win was worth 1.1 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Season by season

SeasonDrawsWin rateAgainst average
2009–1015745.2%45.8%
2010–1113138.2%38.1%
2011–124143.9%43.6%
2012–132842.9%43.3%
2013–1416740.7%40.8%
2014–1511046.4%46.5%

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.

+28.8 goals above expected

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

−40−200+20+40+60+80+100+120