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Right wing · #36

Patrick Kaleta

Age
40
Shoots
Right
Height
185 cm
Weight
90 kg
Born
Buffalo, USA
Draft
2004, round 6, #176 (BUF)

Career · 2009–10 to 2014–15

Games
250
Goals
20
Points
38
TOI per game
10:45
xGF% (5v5)
46.3%
Goals above expected
−2.9

Season by season

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

2009–10BUF5510515+210:096415.6%06.2–
2010–11BUF51459−410:11656.2%06.455.8%
2011–12BUF635510−513:09697.2%06.148.7%
2012–13BUF34101−410:48342.9%02.442.5%
2013–14BUF5000−18:210–00.018.6%
2014–15BUF42033−118:52250.0%01.729.3%
Total1 team250201838−2310:452577.8%022.946.3%

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)
00.10.20.30.40.550100150200250
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Player card

How 2009–10 to 2014–15 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 /600.4523rd pct
  • Assists /600.406th pct
  • ixG /600.5119th pct
  • Goals above expected−2.935th pct

Play-driving

3rd line
  • xGF% (5v5)46.3%26th pct
  • CF% (5v5)44.7%13th pct
  • Relative xGF%−0.649th pct
  • Penalty diff /601.2799th pct

Usage

4th line
  • TOI per game10:4518th pct
  • PP time share1.6%13th pct
  • Offensive zone starts35.4%8th pct
  • Quality of competition23.8%40th 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 Kaleta wins the draw over 2009–10 to 2014–15, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 1134+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

45.3%

24–29 · below the 1134 draws of a regular

Against an average centre

45.7%

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

Wins above average

−2

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

Draws per game

1.4

53 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

0%2 · –0%1 · –27%11 · 0.0100%1 · –50%4 · 0.0100%1 · –80%5 · 0.043%7 · +1.448%21 · +1.6Attacking 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 zone27.3% 3–8
  • Neutral zone61.5% 8–5
  • Defensive zone44.8% 13–16

By strength

  • Even strength43.9% 18–23
  • Shorthanded50.0% 6–6

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +4 after a win, −21 after a loss. Each win was worth 0.8 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Season by season

SeasonDrawsWin rateAgainst average
2009–1020.0%-0.0%
2010–111241.7%42.7%
2011–121952.6%52.3%
2012–131145.5%46.3%
2013–141100.0%102.6%
2014–15837.5%37.9%

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.

−2.9 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