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Defence · #5

Andrej Sekera

Buffalo Sabres Carolina Hurricanes Los Angeles Kings Edmonton Oilers Dallas Stars(traded during the season)
Age
40
Shoots
Left
Height
183 cm
Weight
91 kg
Born
Bojnice, SVK
Draft
2004, round 3, #71 (BUF)

Career · 2009–10 to 2021–22

Games
734
Goals
46
Points
226
TOI per game
19:54
xGF% (5v5)
49.4%
Goals above expected
−4.7

Season by season

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

2009–10BUF494711−117:27596.8%12.7–
2010–11BUF7632629+1121:06883.4%75.253.7%
2011–12BUF6931013+319:36883.4%14.649.6%
2012–13BUF3721012−221:12336.1%02.440.6%
2013–14CAR74113344+423:411427.7%157.747.8%
2014–15CAR5721719−722:46772.6%54.250.3%
2014–15LAK16134+419:13234.3%10.854.0%
2014–15All teams7332023−321:591003.0%65.050.8%
2015–16EDM8162430−1521:501553.9%147.550.8%
2016–17EDM8082735+1421:291286.3%118.251.8%
2017–18EDM36088−1516:20360.0%21.443.7%
2018–19EDM24044+316:29280.0%11.046.7%
2019–20DAL57268+918:00633.2%02.751.0%
2020–21DAL46325+1215:38339.1%01.352.2%
2021–22DAL32134−313:43263.8%00.844.8%
Total5 teams73446180226+1719:549794.7%5850.749.4%

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)
00.51100200300400500600700
10m15m20m25m100200300400500600700Game

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

2nd pair

67th percentile among qualified defencemen, blending scoring 30%, play-driving 50%, usage 20%.

  1. 1st pair
  2. 2nd pair
  3. 3rd pair
  4. Extra / AHL

Scoring

2nd pair
  • Goals /600.1960th pct
  • Assists /600.7468th pct
  • ixG /600.2163rd pct
  • Shots /604.0251st pct

Play-driving

2nd pair
  • xGF% (5v5)49.4%52nd pct
  • CF% (5v5)50.1%59th pct
  • Relative xGF%−0.450th pct
  • xGA /60 (lower is better)2.3848th pct

Usage

1st pair
  • TOI per game19:5473rd pct
  • PP time share29.6%76th pct
  • PK time share37.2%72nd pct
  • Quality of competition24.7%83rd pct

Percentiles among defencemen 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. Nikita NikitinSTL/CBJ/EDM0.89
  2. TJ BrodieCGY0.89
  3. Alex GoligoskiPIT/DAL/ARI/MIN0.85
  4. Marc-Edouard VlasicSJS0.84
  5. Andrei MarkovMTL0.82
  6. Matt CarlePHI/TBL0.80

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.

−4.7 goals above expected

01020304050100200300400500600700Game

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

−200+20+40+60

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 speed32.9 km/h16th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph421st pct
  • Hardest shot144.2 km/h34th pct
  • Distance skated96 km32nd pct
  • Offensive-zone time40.3%30th pct
Tracking, season by season

Each season against the other defencemen 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 defencemanMiddle 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

32.9 km/h4th pct

2021–22 only

32333435363721–222021–22: 32.9 km/h, 4th percentile (32 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

0.516th pct

2021–22 only

012321–222021–22: 0.5, 16th percentile (32 games)

Distance skated per 60

13.1 km14th pct

2021–22 only

12.51313.51414.521–222021–22: 13.1 km, 14th percentile (32 games)

Hardest shot

144.2 km/h19th pct

2021–22 only

14014515015516021–222021–22: 144.2 km/h, 19th percentile (32 games)

Offensive-zone time

40.3%30th pct

2021–22 only

39%40%41%42%43%44%21–222021–22: 40.3%, 30th percentile (32 games)