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Right wing · #29

Jason Pominville

Buffalo Sabres Minnesota Wild(traded during the season)
Age
43
Shoots
Right
Height
180 cm
Weight
82 kg
Born
Repentigny, CAN
Draft
2001, round 2, #55 (BUF)

Career · 2009–10 to 2018–19

Games
756
Goals
194
Points
483
TOI per game
17:05
xGF% (5v5)
53.0%
Goals above expected
+25.1

Season by season

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

2009–10BUF82243862+1318:452529.5%1821.4–
2010–11BUF73223052+118:0921510.2%1519.454.5%
2011–12BUF82304373−719:4123512.8%2620.948.5%
2012–13BUF37101525+120:549410.6%68.144.2%
2012–13MIN10459017:312416.7%33.053.8%
2012–13All teams47142034+120:1111811.9%911.146.0%
2013–14MIN82303060+318:3522613.3%1722.655.8%
2014–15MIN82183654+918:172527.1%1419.357.2%
2015–16MIN75112536+1016:221875.9%1014.255.5%
2016–17MIN78133447+214:141767.4%713.758.3%
2017–18BUF82161834−1714:541689.5%712.448.6%
2018–19BUF73161531−412:2813411.9%213.952.1%
Total2 teams756194289483+1117:051,9639.9%125168.953.0%

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)
00.511.5100200300400500600700
10m15m20m100200300400500600700Game

Player card

How 2009–10 to 2018–19 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

1st line

95th 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 /600.9080th pct
  • Assists /601.3487th pct
  • ixG /600.7868th pct
  • Goals above expected+25.196th pct

Play-driving

1st line
  • xGF% (5v5)53.0%85th pct
  • CF% (5v5)51.6%75th pct
  • Relative xGF%+3.589th pct
  • Penalty diff /600.4182nd pct

Usage

1st line
  • TOI per game17:0584th pct
  • PP time share47.4%85th pct
  • Offensive zone starts65.3%80th pct
  • Quality of competition25.0%86th 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 Pominville wins the draw over 2009–10 to 2018–19, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 1944+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

47.2%

592–661 · below the 1944 draws of a regular

Against an average centre

48.0%

Opponents won 50.8% of their draws; an average centre would have won 49.2% against them.

Wins above average

−25

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

Draws per game

2.7

1,253 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

44%59 · −0.440%126 · +0.850%731 · +1.024%17 · −1.952%82 · +0.543%14 · +2.039%57 · −0.647%58 · +1.043%109 · +1.2Attacking 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 zone48.7% 416–438
  • Neutral zone44.1% 101–128
  • Defensive zone44.1% 75–95

By strength

  • Even strength46.4% 379–437
  • Power play50.6% 181–177
  • Shorthanded41.3% 31–44

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +26 after a win, −2 after a loss. Each win was worth 0.9 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Season by season

SeasonDrawsWin rateAgainst average
2009–1012035.0%35.8%
2010–1115543.2%44.3%
2011–1237547.7%48.5%
2012–1310548.6%50.3%
2013–1415954.7%55.8%
2014–158744.8%45.5%
2015–168245.1%45.2%
2016–177850.0%49.4%
2017–185757.9%58.3%
2018–193551.4%52.2%

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.

+25.1 goals above expected

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

−500+50+100+150