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Centre · #17

John McCarthy

Age
40
Shoots
Left
Height
185 cm
Weight
88 kg
Born
Boston, USA
Draft
2006, round 7, #202 (SJS)

Career · 5 seasons

Games
88
Goals
3
Points
6
TOI per game
9:46
xGF% (5v5)
50.3%
Goals above expected
−6.1

Season by season

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

2009–10SJS4000−39:0830.0%00.1–
2010–11SJS37224−88:45414.9%04.048.2%
2011–12SJS10000−29:26140.0%00.949.0%
After a break: 2013–14SJS36112−1111:03492.0%04.153.6%
After a break: 2015–16SJS100007:050–00.00.0%
Total1 team88336−249:461072.8%09.150.3%

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)
00.10.20.31020304050607080
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Player card

How 5 seasons compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

Extra / AHL

12th 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 /600.215th pct
  • Assists /600.212nd pct
  • ixG /600.6441st pct
  • Goals above expected−6.117th pct

Play-driving

4th line
  • xGF% (5v5)50.3%59th pct
  • CF% (5v5)49.0%45th pct
  • Relative xGF%−7.77th pct
  • Penalty diff /600.0039th pct

Usage

Extra / AHL
  • TOI per game9:4612th pct
  • PP time share1.3%11th pct
  • Offensive zone starts60.3%63rd pct
  • Quality of competition22.6%8th 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 McCarthy wins the draw over 5 seasons, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 1017+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

47.9%

102–111 · below the 1017 draws of a regular

Against an average centre

48.1%

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

Wins above average

−4

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

Draws per game

3.8

213 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

58%33 · −0.657%65 · +1.526%19 · +1.240%20 · +0.314%7 · +0.569%13 · −0.915%13 · +1.155%33 · +1.930%10 · +0.4Attacking 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 zone50.0% 42–42
  • Neutral zone45.3% 39–47
  • Defensive zone48.8% 21–22

By strength

  • Even strength49.0% 97–101
  • Power play33.3% 2–4
  • Shorthanded33.3% 3–6

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +16 after a win, −10 after a loss. Each win was worth 0.9 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Season by season

SeasonDrawsWin rateAgainst average
2010–113636.1%36.8%
2011–124341.9%42.9%
2013–1413353.4%53.3%
2015–1610.0%-0.5%

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.

−6.1 goals above expected

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

−60−40−200+20+40+60+80+100