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Left wing · #20

Drew Miller

Tampa Bay Lightning Detroit Red Wings(traded during the season)
Age
42
Shoots
Left
Height
188 cm
Weight
83 kg
Born
Dover, USA
Draft
2003, round 6, #186 (ANA)

Career · 2009–10 to 2016–17

Games
518
Goals
56
Points
107
TOI per game
12:47
xGF% (5v5)
49.0%
Goals above expected
−7.8

Season by season

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

2009–10TBL14000−312:14100.0%00.7–
2009–10DET6610919+512:429310.8%49.4–
2009–10All teams8010919+212:371039.7%410.1–
2010–11DET6710818−211:458511.8%09.254.5%
2011–12DET80141125+612:5213110.7%011.453.3%
2012–13DET44448−813:49547.4%16.347.6%
2013–14DET827815−1114:081176.0%011.950.5%
2014–15DET825813−313:26985.1%18.644.9%
2015–16DET28112−512:58273.7%02.441.0%
2016–17DET55527−1210:174311.6%03.942.9%
Total2 teams5185651107−3312:476588.5%663.849.0%

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)
00.20.40.60.8100200300400500
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Player card

How 2009–10 to 2016–17 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

4th line

22nd 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 /600.5133rd pct
  • Assists /600.4612th pct
  • ixG /600.5831st pct
  • Goals above expected−7.817th pct

Play-driving

3rd line
  • xGF% (5v5)49.0%49th pct
  • CF% (5v5)48.1%39th pct
  • Relative xGF%−3.229th pct
  • Penalty diff /600.1456th pct

Usage

4th line
  • TOI per game12:4742nd pct
  • PP time share1.7%15th pct
  • Offensive zone starts39.9%14th pct
  • Quality of competition23.1%17th 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 Miller wins the draw over 2009–10 to 2016–17, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 1539+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

30.9%

42–94 · below the 1539 draws of a regular

Against an average centre

31.3%

Opponents won 50.4% of their draws; an average centre would have won 49.6% against them.

Wins above average

−25

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

Draws per game

1.4

136 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

60%10 · 0.037%35 · +1.727%26 · +2.829%7 · −3.920%5 · −5.517%6 · +1.414%7 · +2.027%15 · +0.228%25 · +4.3Attacking 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 zone32.3% 20–42
  • Neutral zone31.4% 11–24
  • Defensive zone28.2% 11–28

By strength

  • Even strength33.7% 29–57
  • Power play0.0% 0–1
  • Shorthanded26.5% 13–36

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +17 after a win, −15 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
2009–104332.6%32.4%
2010–111723.5%24.1%
2011–122520.0%20.6%
2012–13425.0%29.4%
2013–142339.1%38.6%
2014–151931.6%34.1%
2015–16250.0%50.5%
2016–17366.7%62.9%

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.

−7.8 goals above expected

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

−500+50+100