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Defence · #6

Kris Russell

Columbus Blue Jackets St. Louis Blues Calgary Flames Dallas Stars Edmonton Oilers(traded during the season)
Age
39
Shoots
Left
Height
178 cm
Weight
77 kg
Born
Caroline, CAN
Draft
2005, round 3, #67 (CBJ)

Career · 2009–10 to 2021–22

Games
779
Goals
44
Points
223
TOI per game
19:45
xGF% (5v5)
48.4%
Goals above expected
−4.8

Season by season

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

2009–10CBJ7071522+318:351086.5%66.7–
2010–11CBJ7351823−917:31885.7%65.451.8%
2011–12CBJ12213−117:342010.0%11.158.5%
2011–12STL43459+1316:513611.1%12.154.5%
2011–12All teams556612+1217:015610.7%23.255.5%
2012–13STL33167+616:03412.4%21.450.9%
2013–14CGY6872229−1123:081096.4%125.646.2%
2014–15CGY7943034+1823:571113.6%144.844.8%
2015–16CGY5141115−422:52567.1%24.245.6%
2015–16DAL11044−124:02140.0%21.153.9%
2015–16All teams6241519−523:05705.7%45.447.0%
2016–17EDM6811213+521:13681.5%13.648.7%
2017–18EDM7841721−719:04904.4%24.249.7%
2018–19EDM7231316+520:26634.8%03.247.4%
2019–20EDM55099016:47450.0%01.547.3%
2020–21EDM35099018:24410.0%02.045.0%
2021–22EDM31279+715:26345.9%01.850.4%
Total5 teams77944179223+2419:459244.8%4948.848.4%

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)
00.20.40.60.81100200300400500600700
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

3rd pair

45th 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 /600.1753rd pct
  • Assists /600.7064th pct
  • ixG /600.1953rd pct
  • Shots /603.6039th pct

Play-driving

3rd pair
  • xGF% (5v5)48.4%40th pct
  • CF% (5v5)46.5%17th pct
  • Relative xGF%−1.833rd pct
  • xGA /60 (lower is better)2.3357th pct

Usage

1st pair
  • TOI per game19:4572nd pct
  • PP time share24.6%70th pct
  • PK time share30.4%59th pct
  • Quality of competition24.4%68th 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. Brett ClarkCOL/TBL/MIN0.86
  2. Andrew MacDonaldNYI/PHI0.84
  3. Joe HickettsDET0.82
  4. Raphael DiazMTL/NYR/CGY0.80
  5. Kevin KleinNSH/NYR0.80
  6. Carl GunnarssonTOR/STL0.73

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.

−4.8 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 speed34.2 km/h39th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph630th pct
  • Hardest shot148.3 km/h49th pct
  • Distance skated111 km34th pct
  • Offensive-zone time42.0%55th 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

34.2 km/h23rd pct

2021–22 only

3434.53535.53636.521–222021–22: 34.2 km/h, 23rd percentile (31 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

0.825th pct

2021–22 only

0.511.522.5321–222021–22: 0.8, 25th percentile (31 games)

Distance skated per 60

13.9 km64th pct

2021–22 only

1313.213.413.613.81414.221–222021–22: 13.9 km, 64th percentile (31 games)

Hardest shot

148.3 km/h35th pct

2021–22 only

14014515015516021–222021–22: 148.3 km/h, 35th percentile (31 games)

Offensive-zone time

42.0%55th pct

2021–22 only

39%40%41%42%43%44%21–222021–22: 42.0%, 55th percentile (31 games)