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Centre · #89

Sam Gagner

Edmonton Oilers Arizona Coyotes Philadelphia Flyers Columbus Blue Jackets Vancouver Canucks Detroit Red Wings Winnipeg Jets(traded during the season)
Age
37
Shoots
Right
Height
180 cm
Weight
91 kg
Born
London, CAN
Draft
2007, round 1, #6 (EDM)

Career · 2009–10 to 2023–24

Games
888
Goals
168
Points
439
TOI per game
15:31
xGF% (5v5)
47.4%
Goals above expected
−3.9

Season by season

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

2009–10EDM68152641−816:171708.8%1715.5–
2010–11EDM68152742−1717:4513810.9%916.345.2%
2011–12EDM75182947+517:1114912.1%1216.447.6%
2012–13EDM48142438−619:2511312.4%1511.841.8%
2013–14EDM67102737−2918:231437.0%713.443.2%
2014–15ARI81152641−2817:151838.2%1215.646.3%
2015–16PHI538816+413:52869.3%36.547.8%
2016–17CBJ81183250+1013:4317810.1%1817.757.2%
2017–18VAN74102131−1815:071646.1%1112.045.1%
2018–19VAN7123−318:08175.9%11.758.9%
2018–19EDM255510−313:36519.8%04.148.1%
2018–19All teams326713−614:35688.8%15.851.1%
2019–20EDM365712−913:04697.2%26.053.7%
2019–20DET6101−115:051010.0%11.349.8%
2019–20All teams426713−1013:21797.6%37.353.2%
2020–21DET427815−415:26888.0%19.649.5%
2021–22DET81131831−413:371329.8%112.644.3%
2022–23WPG488614−412:107810.3%37.349.7%
2023–24EDM285510−210:134810.4%14.051.4%
Total7 teams888168271439−11715:311,8179.2%114171.947.4%

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)
00.511.52200400600800
8m10m12m14m16m18m20m22m200400600800Game

Player card

Model-based

How 2009–10 to 2023–24 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

2nd line

60th 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

2nd line
  • Goals /600.7360th pct
  • Assists /601.1878th pct
  • ixG /600.7560th pct
  • Goals above expected−3.934th pct

Play-driving

3rd line
  • xGF% (5v5)47.4%36th pct
  • CF% (5v5)49.1%52nd pct
  • Relative xGF%+0.768th pct
  • Penalty diff /60-0.1424th pct

Usage

2nd line
  • TOI per game15:3172nd pct
  • PP time share40.2%78th pct
  • Offensive zone starts61.0%67th pct
  • Quality of competition24.2%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).

Most similar players this season

  1. Max DomiARI/CBJ/CAR/CHI0.92
  2. Tomas FleischmannWSH/COL/FLA/ANA/MTL/CHI0.90
  3. Brad RichardsDAL/NYR/CHI/DET0.90
  4. Mike HoffmanOTT/FLA/MTL/SJS0.89
  5. Phil KesselTOR/PIT/ARI/VGK0.89
  6. Kyle OkposoNYI/BUF0.88

Faceoffs

How often Gagner wins the draw over 2009–10 to 2023–24, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 2866+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

46.1%

3030–3547 · #186 of 205 regulars, 10th percentile

Against an average centre

46.6%

Opponents won 50.5% of their draws; an average centre would have won 49.5% against them.

Wins above average

−225

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

Draws per game

8.3

6,577 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

43%1030 · +0.845%889 · +0.750%1849 · +1.846%227 · +0.646%351 · +1.344%206 · +1.242%243 · +1.342%617 · +1.547%1165 · +1.5Attacking 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 zone48.4% 1327–1412
  • Neutral zone43.9% 903–1153
  • Defensive zone44.9% 800–982

By strength

  • Even strength45.6% 2404–2869
  • Power play50.9% 535–516
  • Shorthanded35.2% 80–147

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +14 after a win, −11 after a loss. Each win was worth 1.4 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Season by season

SeasonDrawsWin rateAgainst average
2009–1070947.2%47.7%
2010–1193543.9%45.0%
2011–1270147.6%48.0%
2012–1374143.9%44.8%
2013–1496346.8%47.5%
2014–1577146.8%46.8%
2015–169735.1%34.5%
2016–1742547.5%47.2%
2017–1846147.7%48.0%
2018–1911850.0%50.6%
2019–2010244.1%43.7%
2020–2118046.1%47.0%
2021–2230446.7%47.0%
2022–234630.4%31.9%
2023–242462.5%64.5%

Finishing

Model-based

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.

−3.9 goals above expected

050100150200200400600800Game

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

−500+50+100+150+200

Speed and tracking

From the NHL's EDGE tracking system (2021–22 on): skating speed, shot speed, distance and zone time, for the selected seasons and then every tracked season, to show improvement or decline.

Tracking data (NHL EDGE)

Values from the NHL's puck and player tracking, with the NHL's own league percentile for each. Missing values mean the player wasn't tracked enough.

Tracking

  • Top skating speed34.2 km/h15th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph1219th pct
  • Hardest shot131.6 km/h24th pct
  • Distance skated71 km26th pct
  • Offensive-zone time43.7%70th pct
Tracking, season by season

Each season against the other forwards that season with 20+ games. A season in progress appears once half its games are played, as provisional: season bests only grow. Bursts and distance are per 60 minutes of ice time, so seasons with fewer games still compare. Percentiles are on these rates, so they can differ from the NHL's, which are on season totals.

This playerMedian forwardMiddle half (25th–75th percentile)Hollow dot: too few games to rank, or a season in progress (*, dashed). Dotted line: no NHL games that season.

Top skating speed

34.2 km/h5th pct

▼ −0.2 km/h since 2022–23

333435363721–2222–2323–242021–22: 34.0 km/h, 4th percentile (81 games)2022–23: 34.3 km/h, 7th percentile (48 games)2023–24: 34.2 km/h, 5th percentile (28 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

2.516th pct

▲ +0.5 since 2022–23

024681021–2222–2323–242021–22: 1.7, 7th percentile (81 games)2022–23: 2.1, 13th percentile (48 games)2023–24: 2.5, 16th percentile (28 games)

Distance skated per 60

14.8 km14th pct

▲ +0.1 km since 2022–23

1414.51515.51616.521–2222–2323–242021–22: 14.3 km, 4th percentile (81 games)2022–23: 14.7 km, 14th percentile (48 games)2023–24: 14.8 km, 14th percentile (28 games)

Hardest shot

131.6 km/h10th pct

▼ −10.9 km/h since 2022–23

12013014015016021–2222–2323–242021–22: 149.1 km/h, 74th percentile (81 games)2022–23: 142.4 km/h, 48th percentile (48 games)2023–24: 131.6 km/h, 10th percentile (28 games)

Offensive-zone time

43.7%73rd pct

▼ −1.2 points since 2022–23

36%38%40%42%44%46%21–2222–2323–242021–22: 37.3%, 3rd percentile (81 games)2022–23: 44.8%, 82nd percentile (48 games)2023–24: 43.7%, 73rd percentile (28 games)