- Age
- 39
- Shoots
- Left
- Height
- 180 cm
- Weight
- 87 kg
- Born
- Trebic, CZE
- Draft
- 2005, round 4, #106 (BOS)
Career · 9 seasons
- Games
- 475
- Goals
- 51
- Points
- 159
- TOI per game
- 15:17
- xGF% (5v5)
- 49.5%
- Goals above expected
- −8.2
Season by season
The regular-season line for each season, with the total, by team for traded players.
| 2009–10 |   BOS | 61 | 4 | 6 | 10 | −7 | 11:06 | 67 | 6.0% | 0 | 6.0 | – |
| 2010–11 |   STL | 65 | 7 | 22 | 29 | −4 | 16:11 | 75 | 9.3% | 5 | 7.3 | 50.5% |
| 2011–12 | STL | 73 | 5 | 15 | 20 | +12 | 15:51 | 117 | 4.3% | 2 | 11.2 | 54.5% |
| 2012–13 | STL | 48 | 8 | 11 | 19 | −4 | 15:27 | 69 | 11.6% | 4 | 5.4 | 51.5% |
| 2013–14 | STL | 61 | 9 | 24 | 33 | +14 | 16:45 | 102 | 8.8% | 7 | 9.7 | 57.8% |
| After a break: 2016–17 | STL | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 16:41 | 2 | 50.0% | 0 | 0.6 | 58.1% |
| 2017–18 | STL | 81 | 11 | 20 | 31 | −6 | 17:07 | 136 | 8.1% | 3 | 11.8 | 47.3% |
| 2018–19 |   BUF | 69 | 5 | 8 | 13 | −20 | 14:11 | 71 | 7.0% | 0 | 5.6 | 39.1% |
| 2019–20 | BUF | 16 | 1 | 2 | 3 | +2 | 14:16 | 23 | 4.3% | 0 | 1.6 | 41.2% |
| Total | 3 teams | 475 | 51 | 108 | 159 | −13 | 15:17 | 662 | 7.7% | 21 | 59.2 | 49.5% |
Form
Rolling averages smooth out single games so the trend shows.
Points and individual expected goals per game (left scale), averaged over the previous ten games. Ice time is on the second chart.
Player card
How 9 seasons compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.
Overall rating
4th line
32nd percentile among qualified forwards, blending scoring 40%, play-driving 40%, usage 20%.
- 1st line
- 2nd line
- 3rd line
- 4th line
- Extra / AHL
Scoring
Extra / AHL- Goals /600.4219th pct
- Assists /600.8952nd pct
- ixG /600.4912th pct
- Goals above expected−8.214th pct
Play-driving
3rd line- xGF% (5v5)49.5%52nd pct
- CF% (5v5)51.3%72nd pct
- Relative xGF%−2.334th pct
- Penalty diff /60-0.1226th pct
Usage
2nd line- TOI per game15:1768th pct
- PP time share17.6%50th pct
- Offensive zone starts41.9%18th pct
- Quality of competition24.3%62nd 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 Sobotka wins the draw over 9 seasons, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 1707+ draws over the same seasons.
Win rate
55.8%
2036–1611 · #16 of 200 regulars, 92nd percentile
Against an average centre
55.9%
Opponents won 50.0% of their draws; an average centre would have won 50.0% against them.
Wins above average
+214
Draws won beyond what an average centre facing the same opponents would have won.
Draws per game
8.0
3,647 draws in all.
By dot, attacking to the right
Win rate at each dot; the small numbers are draws and the xG swing (×100) of winning rather than losing there.
By zone
- Offensive zone55.5% 642–515
- Neutral zone56.9% 621–470
- Defensive zone55.3% 773–626
By strength
- Even strength56.6% 1672–1283
- Power play56.8% 133–101
- Shorthanded50.7% 230–224
What a win leads to
Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +11 after a win, −15 after a loss. Each win was worth 1.3 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.
Most-faced opponents
- Jonathan Toews44.0% 22–28
- Kyle Brodziak74.0% 37–13
- Antoine Vermette62.5% 30–18
- Ryan Getzlaf61.5% 24–15
- Joe Pavelski42.1% 16–22
- Ryan Kesler29.7% 11–26
- Artem Anisimov47.2% 17–19
- Paul Stastny44.4% 16–20
Season by season
| Season | Draws | Win rate | Against average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009–10 | 361 | 54.3% | 54.6% |
| 2010–11 | 419 | 51.6% | 52.2% |
| 2011–12 | 501 | 56.1% | 56.1% |
| 2012–13 | 506 | 56.5% | 57.1% |
| 2013–14 | 813 | 61.9% | 61.5% |
| 2016–17 | 12 | 50.0% | 56.2% |
| 2017–18 | 352 | 54.3% | 53.3% |
| 2018–19 | 613 | 51.9% | 51.8% |
| 2019–20 | 70 | 55.7% | 56.3% |
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.
−8.2 goals above expected
Goals above expected, everyone at the same position with 20+ games