- Age
- 39
- Shoots
- Right
- Height
- 180 cm
- Weight
- 90 kg
- Born
- Eden Prairie, USA
- Draft
- 2005, round 7, #228 (TOR)
2011–12
- Games
- 9
- Goals
- 2
- Points
- 2
- TOI per game
- 10:53
- xGF% (5v5)
- 37.2%
- Goals above expected
- +1.3
Season
The regular-season line, by team for traded players.
| 2011–12 |   MIN | 9 | 2 | 0 | 2 | −1 | 10:53 | 7 | 28.6% | 0 | 0.7 | 37.2% |
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 this season compares with everyone else at the position, and the players with the most similar profile.
Overall rating
Extra / AHL
13th percentile among qualified forwards, blending scoring 40%, play-driving 40%, usage 20%.
- 1st line
- 2nd line
- 3rd line
- 4th line
- Extra / AHL
Scoring
3rd line- Goals /601.2292nd pct
- Assists /600.001st pct
- ixG /600.4410th pct
- Goals above expected+1.369th pct
Play-driving
Extra / AHL- xGF% (5v5)37.2%1st pct
- CF% (5v5)37.5%0th pct
- Relative xGF%−15.00th pct
- Penalty diff /600.0044th pct
Usage
4th line- TOI per game10:5319th pct
- PP time share23.9%50th pct
- Offensive zone starts62.2%68th pct
- Quality of competition22.4%7th 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). This player is below the threshold, so the percentiles and ratings are for reference only.
Most similar players this season
Needs a regular role to compare.
Faceoffs
How often Rau wins the draw this season, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 205+ draws over the same seasons.
Win rate
53.8%
35–30 · below the 205 draws of a regular
Against an average centre
53.6%
Opponents won 49.7% of their draws; an average centre would have won 50.3% against them.
Wins above average
+2
Draws won beyond what an average centre facing the same opponents would have won.
Draws per game
7.2
65 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 zone43.5% 10–13
- Neutral zone64.0% 16–9
- Defensive zone52.9% 9–8
By strength
- Even strength52.4% 33–30
- Power play100.0% 1–0
- Shorthanded100.0% 1–0
What a win leads to
Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +9 after a win, 0 after a loss. Each win was worth 0.4 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.
Most-faced opponents
- Craig Smith66.7% 4–2
- David Krejci80.0% 4–1
- Vernon Fiddler50.0% 2–2
- Patrice Bergeron25.0% 1–3
- Jake Dowell100.0% 3–0
- David Van Der Gulik100.0% 3–0
- TJ Galiardi33.3% 1–2
- Gregory Campbell33.3% 1–2
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.
+1.3 goals above expected
Goals above expected, everyone at the same position with 20+ games