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Left wing · #40

Alex Tanguay

Tampa Bay Lightning Calgary Flames Colorado Avalanche Arizona Coyotes(traded during the season)
Age
46
Shoots
Left
Height
185 cm
Weight
88 kg
Born
Ste-Justine, CAN
Draft
1998, round 1, #12 (COL)

Career · 2009–10 to 2015–16

Games
429
Goals
90
Points
283
TOI per game
17:50
xGF% (5v5)
47.9%
Goals above expected
+24.4
ShowAll teamsTampa Bay LightningCalgary FlamesColorado AvalancheArizona Coyotes

Season by season

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

2009–10TBL80102737−215:479111.0%710.7–
2010–11CGY79224769019:4612018.3%1915.353.6%
2011–12CGY64133649+719:038415.5%1511.249.0%
2012–13CGY40111627−1319:224425.0%96.049.6%
2013–14COL164711+717:172416.7%22.352.4%
2014–15COL80223355−118:1010421.2%1412.442.9%
2015–16COL5241822+316:01498.2%55.844.6%
2015–16ARI184913+515:092218.2%42.044.7%
2015–16All teams7082735+815:477111.3%97.844.7%
Total4 teams42990193283+617:5053816.7%7565.647.9%

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)
00.511.550100150200250300350400
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Player card

Model-based

How 2009–10 to 2015–16 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

2nd line

61st 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 /600.7157th pct
  • Assists /601.5194th pct
  • ixG /600.5119th pct
  • Goals above expected+24.497th pct

Play-driving

4th line
  • xGF% (5v5)47.9%38th pct
  • CF% (5v5)46.0%20th pct
  • Relative xGF%+0.458th pct
  • Penalty diff /60-0.2218th pct

Usage

1st line
  • TOI per game17:5088th pct
  • PP time share51.8%90th pct
  • Offensive zone starts57.8%54th pct
  • Quality of competition25.5%95th 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

  1. Martin EratNSH/WSH/ARI0.90
  2. Nik AntropovATL/WPG0.89
  3. Joseph BlandisiNJD0.83
  4. Stephen WeissFLA/DET0.80
  5. Josh BaileyNYI0.80
  6. Jiri HudlerDET/CGY/FLA0.79

Faceoffs

How often Tanguay wins the draw over 2009–10 to 2015–16, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 1339+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

39.7%

162–246 · below the 1339 draws of a regular

Against an average centre

40.4%

Opponents won 50.7% of their draws; an average centre would have won 49.3% against them.

Wins above average

−39

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

Draws per game

2.5

408 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

42%60 · +0.946%104 · +2.621%33 · +1.450%26 · +1.640%5 · 0.029%28 · +0.633%15 · +0.239%100 · +1.541%37 · +0.6Attacking 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 zone40.4% 55–81
  • Neutral zone39.6% 53–81
  • Defensive zone39.1% 54–84

By strength

  • Even strength39.6% 107–163
  • Power play42.2% 19–26
  • Shorthanded38.2% 34–55

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +14 after a win, −16 after a loss. Each win was worth 1.7 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Season by season

SeasonDrawsWin rateAgainst average
2009–102544.0%43.5%
2010–1110739.3%40.3%
2011–126737.3%39.0%
2012–1317339.3%39.6%
2013–14333.3%32.2%
2014–152842.9%43.3%
2015–16560.0%59.1%

Finishing

Model-based

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.

+24.4 goals above expected

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

−500+50+100