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Age
40
Shoots
Left
Height
183 cm
Weight
86 kg
Born
Detroit, USA
Draft
2004, round 4, #119 (PHX)

Career · 7 seasons

Games
215
Goals
24
Points
48
TOI per game
12:29
xGF% (5v5)
46.4%
Goals above expected
+1.6

Season by season

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

2009–10PHX4000+17:2230.0%00.1–
2009–10COL16213−413:131811.1%01.7–
2009–10All teams20213−312:03219.5%01.8–
2010–11COL74141125−1113:4910213.7%211.448.9%
2011–12COL35437−29:113212.5%02.746.2%
2012–13BUF31459−115:143710.8%02.740.7%
2013–14BUF12011−511:3830.0%00.736.9%
After a break: 2015–16PIT41033−211:19340.0%02.949.8%
2016–17PIT2000−111:150–00.134.1%
Total4 teams215242448−2512:2922910.5%222.446.4%

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)
00.20.40.60.850100150200
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Player card

How 7 seasons compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

4th line

27th 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

4th line
  • Goals /600.5435th pct
  • Assists /600.5418th pct
  • ixG /600.5015th pct
  • Goals above expected+1.670th pct

Play-driving

4th line
  • xGF% (5v5)46.4%25th pct
  • CF% (5v5)46.5%23rd pct
  • Relative xGF%−3.128th pct
  • Penalty diff /600.1355th pct

Usage

3rd line
  • TOI per game12:2938th pct
  • PP time share15.4%48th pct
  • Offensive zone starts49.3%31st pct
  • Quality of competition23.8%39th 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 Porter wins the draw over 7 seasons, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 1334+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

39.8%

229–347 · below the 1334 draws of a regular

Against an average centre

40.1%

Opponents won 50.3% of their draws; an average centre would have won 49.7% against them.

Wins above average

−57

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

Draws per game

4.9

576 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

41%123 · +0.551%86 · +2.035%63 · +1.250%28 · +0.324%25 · +0.434%32 · +0.634%41 · +0.943%111 · +1.130%67 · +1.5Attacking 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 zone44.3% 66–83
  • Neutral zone38.2% 95–154
  • Defensive zone38.2% 68–110

By strength

  • Even strength39.4% 200–307
  • Power play55.0% 11–9
  • Shorthanded36.7% 18–31

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +10 after a win, −12 after a loss. Each win was worth 1.1 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Season by season

SeasonDrawsWin rateAgainst average
2009–104242.9%44.0%
2010–115832.8%33.4%
2011–124630.4%30.5%
2012–1327140.2%40.6%
2013–145334.0%34.7%
2015–168750.6%49.6%
2016–171936.8%39.8%

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.

+1.6 goals above expected

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

−40−200+20+40+60+80+100+120