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Defence · #42

Thomas Hickey

Age
37
Shoots
Left
Height
183 cm
Weight
84 kg
Born
Calgary, CAN
Draft
2007, round 1, #4 (LAK)

Career · 9 seasons

Games
456
Goals
22
Points
117
TOI per game
18:06
xGF% (5v5)
50.5%
Goals above expected
−6.0

Season by season

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

2012–13NYI39134+916:52402.5%02.558.2%
2013–14NYI8241822+518:52964.2%15.552.1%
2014–15NYI8122022−1218:56822.4%04.554.0%
2015–16NYI6261218+917:245510.9%03.546.3%
2016–17NYI7641620−117:31874.6%34.847.3%
2017–18NYI6952025+2018:04875.7%05.146.9%
2018–19NYI40044+518:30470.0%02.150.2%
After a break: 2020–21NYI5022+516:1620.0%00.159.6%
2021–22NYI2000−319:290–00.037.6%
Total1 team4562295117+3718:064964.4%428.050.5%

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)
00.20.40.60.8100200300400
12m14m16m18m20m22m24m100200300400Game

Player card

How 9 seasons compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

2nd pair

57th percentile among qualified defencemen, blending scoring 30%, play-driving 50%, usage 20%.

  1. 1st pair
  2. 2nd pair
  3. 3rd pair
  4. Extra / AHL

Scoring

2nd pair
  • Goals /600.1649th pct
  • Assists /600.6961st pct
  • ixG /600.2060th pct
  • Shots /603.6036th pct

Play-driving

2nd pair
  • xGF% (5v5)50.5%66th pct
  • CF% (5v5)49.7%56th pct
  • Relative xGF%+1.071st pct
  • xGA /60 (lower is better)2.5130th pct

Usage

2nd pair
  • TOI per game18:0654th pct
  • PP time share5.7%42nd pct
  • PK time share39.7%74th pct
  • Quality of competition24.0%48th pct

Percentiles among defencemen 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).

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.

−6.0 goals above expected

-5051015202530100200300400Game

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

−30−20−100+10+20+30+40+50

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 speed32.0 km/h5th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph01st pct
  • Hardest shot124.7 km/h8th pct
  • Distance skated8 km7th pct
  • Offensive-zone time36.1%0th pct
Tracking, season by season

Each season against the other defencemen 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 defencemanMiddle 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

32.0 km/h0th pct

2021–22 only

303234363821–222021–22: 32.0 km/h, 0th percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

0.00th pct

2021–22 only

012321–222021–22: 0.0, 0th percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)

Distance skated per 60

12.9 km7th pct

2021–22 only

12.51313.51414.521–222021–22: 12.9 km, 7th percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)

Hardest shot

124.7 km/h0th pct

2021–22 only

12013014015016021–222021–22: 124.7 km/h, 0th percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)

Offensive-zone time

36.1%0th pct

2021–22 only

34%36%38%40%42%44%46%21–222021–22: 36.1%, 0th percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)