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Centre · #24

Nathan Gerbe

Age
39
Shoots
Left
Height
163 cm
Weight
80 kg
Born
Oxford, USA
Draft
2005, round 5, #142 (BUF)

Career · 10 seasons

Games
425
Goals
63
Points
150
TOI per game
14:32
xGF% (5v5)
49.0%
Goals above expected
−16.9

Season by season

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

2009–10BUF10235+114:39296.9%22.7–
2010–11BUF64161531+1113:201719.4%413.453.6%
2011–12BUF6261925+214:121374.4%09.946.4%
2012–13BUF425510−312:30647.8%05.239.2%
2013–14CAR81161531−616:242217.2%719.751.7%
2014–15CAR78101828−1416:272354.3%817.150.9%
2015–16CAR47347−1513:28734.1%16.742.2%
After a break: 2017–18CBJ2000−18:3610.0%00.028.3%
After a break: 2019–20CBJ304610−713:45557.3%04.452.1%
2020–21CBJ9123011:07911.1%00.746.2%
Total3 teams4256387150−3214:329956.3%2279.949.0%

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)
00.20.40.60.850100150200250300350400
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Player card

How 10 seasons compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

3rd line

54th 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

3rd line
  • Goals /600.6143rd pct
  • Assists /600.8447th pct
  • ixG /600.7865th pct
  • Goals above expected−16.94th pct

Play-driving

2nd line
  • xGF% (5v5)49.0%49th pct
  • CF% (5v5)50.4%64th pct
  • Relative xGF%−0.256th pct
  • Penalty diff /600.3780th pct

Usage

2nd line
  • TOI per game14:3260th pct
  • PP time share22.3%56th pct
  • Offensive zone starts54.5%44th pct
  • Quality of competition24.4%63rd 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 Gerbe wins the draw over 10 seasons, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 1851+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

41.8%

38–53 · below the 1851 draws of a regular

Against an average centre

41.9%

Opponents won 50.2% of their draws; an average centre would have won 49.8% against them.

Wins above average

−7

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

Draws per game

1.2

91 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

40%5 · +0.522%23 · +2.833%9 · +3.283%6 · +0.520%5 · −5.240%5 · +0.575%4 · +1.655%20 · +5.943%14 · −0.6Attacking 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 zone25.8% 8–23
  • Neutral zone52.0% 13–12
  • Defensive zone48.6% 17–18

By strength

  • Even strength41.8% 28–39
  • Power play25.0% 1–3
  • Shorthanded45.0% 9–11

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +13 after a win, +2 after a loss. Each win was worth 1.0 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Season by season

SeasonDrawsWin rateAgainst average
2009–10333.3%34.3%
2010–111723.5%24.5%
2011–121936.8%38.3%
2012–1310.0%-1.3%
2013–14633.3%35.2%
2014–151560.0%59.6%
2015–16540.0%37.9%
2019–201250.0%49.4%
2020–211353.8%52.5%

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.

−16.9 goals above expected

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

−500+50+100+150