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Centre · #51

Brad Mills

New Jersey Devils Chicago Blackhawks(traded during the season)
Age
43
Shoots
Right
Height
183 cm
Weight
88 kg
Born
Terrace, CAN
Draft
Undrafted

Career · 3 seasons

Games
31
Goals
1
Points
2
TOI per game
7:19
xGF% (5v5)
40.2%
Goals above expected
−0.9

Season by season

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

2010–11NJD4101+18:17616.7%00.650.8%
2011–12NJD27011−107:11180.0%01.337.5%
After a break: 2013–14CHI3000−110:2020.0%00.158.2%
Total2 teams34112−107:35263.8%02.042.4%

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)
00.020.040.060.080.11015202530
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Player card

How 3 seasons compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

Extra / AHL

4th 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 /600.237th pct
  • Assists /600.232nd pct
  • ixG /600.4815th pct
  • Goals above expected−1.046th pct

Play-driving

Extra / AHL
  • xGF% (5v5)42.4%8th pct
  • CF% (5v5)46.1%20th pct
  • Relative xGF%−10.03rd pct
  • Penalty diff /600.0040th pct

Usage

Extra / AHL
  • TOI per game7:354th pct
  • PP time share0.7%4th pct
  • Offensive zone starts48.4%28th pct
  • Quality of competition22.4%5th 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 Mills wins the draw over 3 seasons, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 610+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

58.6%

92–65 · below the 610 draws of a regular

Against an average centre

58.7%

Opponents won 50.1% of their draws; an average centre would have won 49.9% against them.

Wins above average

+14

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

Draws per game

4.8

157 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

58%19 · +2.073%11 · −0.671%35 · +0.850%2 · −3.555%11 · +0.286%7 · 0.017%6 · +0.133%12 · −3.856%54 · +1.2Attacking 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 zone71.7% 33–13
  • Neutral zone55.6% 25–20
  • Defensive zone51.5% 34–32

By strength

  • Even strength57.1% 72–54
  • Power play100.0% 5–0
  • Shorthanded56.0% 14–11

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: 0 after a win, −15 after a loss. Each win was worth 0.8 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Season by season

SeasonDrawsWin rateAgainst average
2010–111741.2%44.2%
2011–1212661.1%60.5%
2013–141457.1%60.0%

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.

−0.9 goals above expected

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

−200+20+40+60