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Centre · #44

Nate Thompson

New York Islanders Tampa Bay Lightning Anaheim Ducks Ottawa Senators Los Angeles Kings Montréal Canadiens Philadelphia Flyers Winnipeg Jets(traded during the season)
Age
42
Shoots
Left
Height
185 cm
Weight
93 kg
Born
Anchorage, USA
Draft
2003, round 6, #183 (BOS)

Career · 2009–10 to 2021–22

Games
797
Goals
63
Points
160
TOI per game
13:03
xGF% (5v5)
47.2%
Goals above expected
−22.1

Season by season

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

2009–10NYI39156−1412:56482.1%05.2–
2009–10TBL32134−313:58442.3%03.5–
2009–10All teams712810−1713:24922.2%08.7–
2010–11TBL79101525−615:051238.1%113.355.6%
2011–12TBL689615−2314:498510.6%07.847.9%
2012–13TBL457815−214:205812.1%05.044.6%
2013–14TBL819716+312:521058.6%010.051.3%
2014–15ANA8051318013:19875.7%08.646.5%
2015–16ANA49336−111:36427.1%04.750.2%
2016–17ANA30112+410:23195.3%01.240.1%
2017–18OTT434711012:302814.3%03.139.6%
2017–18LAK26156−113:13254.0%02.239.6%
2017–18All teams6951217−112:46539.4%05.339.6%
2018–19LAK53426+312:553511.4%04.444.5%
2018–19MTL25167−413:11362.8%03.049.3%
2018–19All teams785813−113:00717.0%07.546.1%
2019–20MTL6341014−212:48626.5%07.347.5%
2019–20PHI7011+112:3750.0%00.850.0%
2019–20All teams7041115−112:47676.0%08.147.7%
2020–21WPG44235+49:412010.0%02.248.1%
2021–22PHI33123−1511:58234.3%02.937.3%
Total8 teams7976397160−5613:038457.5%185.147.2%

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)
00.10.20.30.40.50.6100200300400500600700
8m10m12m14m16m18m100200300400500600700Game

Player card

Model-based

How 2009–10 to 2021–22 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 /600.3615th pct
  • Assists /600.5620th pct
  • ixG /600.4913th pct
  • Goals above expected−22.12nd pct

Play-driving

4th line
  • xGF% (5v5)47.2%33rd pct
  • CF% (5v5)46.6%25th pct
  • Relative xGF%−4.220th pct
  • Penalty diff /60-0.1227th pct

Usage

4th line
  • TOI per game13:0348th pct
  • PP time share2.8%21st pct
  • Offensive zone starts30.5%5th pct
  • Quality of competition23.6%38th 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. Michael McLeodNJD0.97
  2. Adam BurishDAL/SJS0.96
  3. Samuel PahlssonCBJ0.96
  4. Gregory CampbellFLA/BOS/CBJ0.95
  5. Jay BeagleWSH/VAN/ARI0.95
  6. Johan LarssonBUF/ARI/WSH0.95

Faceoffs

How often Thompson wins the draw over 2009–10 to 2021–22, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 2456+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

53.0%

4207–3729 · #48 of 202 regulars, 76th percentile

Against an average centre

53.0%

Opponents won 50.0% of their draws; an average centre would have won 50.0% against them.

Wins above average

+240

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

Draws per game

10.0

7,936 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

53%1406 · +0.558%1053 · +1.646%652 · +2.061%279 · +0.551%245 · +1.159%386 · +0.545%245 · +1.156%2387 · +1.846%1283 · +2.6Attacking 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 zone53.7% 917–792
  • Neutral zone53.7% 1372–1183
  • Defensive zone52.2% 1918–1754

By strength

  • Even strength54.3% 3388–2847
  • Power play55.9% 80–63
  • Shorthanded47.4% 727–806

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +8 after a win, −21 after a loss. Each win was worth 1.5 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Season by season

SeasonDrawsWin rateAgainst average
2009–1059354.1%54.4%
2010–1166454.2%54.6%
2011–1259249.5%49.7%
2012–1360551.2%51.6%
2013–1497450.9%50.8%
2014–15105652.7%52.8%
2015–1645152.1%51.8%
2016–1724553.1%53.1%
2017–1863856.4%56.4%
2018–1976053.8%53.7%
2019–2078755.0%54.3%
2020–2128450.4%50.7%
2021–2228755.7%55.8%

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.

−22.1 goals above expected

020406080100100200300400500600700Game

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

−500+50+100+150+200

Speed and tracking

From the NHL's EDGE tracking system (2021–22 on): skating speed, shot speed, distance and zone time, for the selected seasons and then every tracked season, to show improvement or decline.

Tracking data (NHL EDGE)

Values from the NHL's puck and player tracking, with the NHL's own league percentile for each. Missing values mean the player wasn't tracked enough.

Tracking

  • Top skating speed35.1 km/h35th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph3138th pct
  • Hardest shot132.7 km/h28th pct
  • Distance skated103 km36th pct
  • Offensive-zone time37.5%5th pct
Tracking, season by season

Each season against the other forwards that season with 20+ games. A season in progress appears once half its games are played, as provisional: season bests only grow. Bursts and distance are per 60 minutes of ice time, so seasons with fewer games still compare. Percentiles are on these rates, so they can differ from the NHL's, which are on season totals.

This playerMedian forwardMiddle half (25th–75th percentile)Hollow dot: too few games to rank, or a season in progress (*, dashed). Dotted line: no NHL games that season.

Top skating speed

35.1 km/h21st pct

2021–22 only

34.53535.53636.53721–222021–22: 35.1 km/h, 21st percentile (33 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

4.744th pct

2021–22 only

24681021–222021–22: 4.7, 44th percentile (33 games)

Distance skated per 60

15.6 km51st pct

2021–22 only

14.51515.51616.521–222021–22: 15.6 km, 51st percentile (33 games)

Hardest shot

132.7 km/h12th pct

2021–22 only

13013514014515015521–222021–22: 132.7 km/h, 12th percentile (33 games)

Offensive-zone time

37.5%6th pct

2021–22 only

36%38%40%42%44%46%21–222021–22: 37.5%, 6th percentile (33 games)