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Right wing · #18

Patrick Eaves

Age
42
Shoots
Right
Height
180 cm
Weight
92 kg
Born
Calgary, CAN
Draft
2003, round 1, #29 (OTT)

Career · 2009–10 to 2018–19

Games
391
Goals
87
Points
152
TOI per game
13:26
xGF% (5v5)
53.8%
Goals above expected
+8.1

Season by season

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

2009–10DET65121022013:2612010.0%09.0–
2010–11DET6313720−212:4210812.0%210.250.7%
2011–12DET10011011:03240.0%01.558.7%
2012–13DET34268−110:35424.8%13.249.6%
2013–14DET25235−411:33513.9%34.049.9%
2013–14NSH5000−39:4620.0%00.263.1%
2013–14All teams30235−711:16533.8%34.251.4%
2014–15DAL47141327+1213:439115.4%913.858.5%
2015–16DAL5411617−512:588612.8%79.557.0%
2016–17DAL59211637−1016:3915413.6%1619.352.2%
2016–17ANA2011314+815:425520.0%26.760.8%
2016–17All teams79321951−216:2520915.3%1826.154.5%
2017–18ANA2101016:28333.3%00.442.2%
2018–19ANA7000−413:5360.0%01.138.4%
Total4 teams3918765152−913:2674211.7%4078.953.8%

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)
00.20.40.60.811.250100150200250300350
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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

87th 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 /600.9986th pct
  • Assists /600.7436th pct
  • ixG /600.9084th pct
  • Goals above expected+8.185th pct

Play-driving

1st line
  • xGF% (5v5)53.8%90th pct
  • CF% (5v5)52.5%84th pct
  • Relative xGF%+3.387th pct
  • Penalty diff /600.3174th pct

Usage

2nd line
  • TOI per game13:2651st pct
  • PP time share26.8%61st pct
  • Offensive zone starts57.1%52nd pct
  • Quality of competition24.4%64th 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 Eaves 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

39.5%

30–46 · below the 1944 draws of a regular

Against an average centre

38.9%

Opponents won 49.4% of their draws; an average centre would have won 50.6% against them.

Wins above average

−8

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

Draws per game

1.2

76 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

25%4 · 0.083%6 · +1.139%28 · +1.80%1 · –50%6 · −1.150%2 · 0.050%8 · +14.124%21 · −0.2Attacking 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 zone47.1% 16–18
  • Neutral zone38.5% 5–8
  • Defensive zone31.0% 9–20

By strength

  • Even strength40.4% 21–31
  • Power play37.5% 3–5
  • Shorthanded33.3% 5–10

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +17 after a win, −17 after a loss. Each win was worth 1.8 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Season by season

SeasonDrawsWin rateAgainst average
2009–101428.6%27.4%
2010–111030.0%28.3%
2011–12540.0%39.1%
2012–131163.6%62.9%
2013–141546.7%44.7%
2014–15540.0%40.5%
2015–161127.3%28.3%
2016–17450.0%53.8%
2017–1810.0%2.8%

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.

+8.1 goals above expected

02040608010050100150200250300350Game

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

−500+50+100+150