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Right wing · #93

Jakub Voracek

Columbus Blue Jackets Philadelphia Flyers(traded during the season)
Age
37
Shoots
Left
Height
188 cm
Weight
98 kg
Born
Kladno, CZE
Draft
2007, round 1, #7 (CBJ)

Career · 2009–10 to 2022–23

Games
978
Goals
214
Points
768
TOI per game
17:39
xGF% (5v5)
50.5%
Goals above expected
−8.1
ShowAll teamsColumbus Blue JacketsPhiladelphia Flyers

Season by season

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

2009–10CBJ81163450−715:3715410.4%1213.6–
2010–11CBJ80143246−316:581837.7%820.052.7%
2011–12PHI78183149+1116:171909.5%1019.052.9%
2012–13PHI48222446−717:1412917.1%1713.155.2%
2013–14PHI82233962+1117:152359.8%2319.154.5%
2014–15PHI82225981+118:3622110.0%3319.953.1%
2015–16PHI73114455−518:352135.2%2316.653.2%
2016–17PHI82204161−2419:052537.9%2321.946.7%
2017–18PHI82206585+1019:272288.8%3522.450.4%
2018–19PHI78204666−1618:402109.5%1819.949.0%
2019–20PHI69124456+1417:031329.1%1911.751.4%
2020–21PHI5393443−1216:551048.7%811.149.1%
2021–22CBJ7965662−1317:281474.1%2512.342.9%
2022–23CBJ11156−715:58175.9%11.532.9%
Total2 teams978214554768−4717:392,4168.9%255222.150.5%

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)
00.511.52200400600800
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Player card

Model-based

How 2009–10 to 2022–23 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

1st line

85th 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 /600.7463rd pct
  • Assists /601.9398th pct
  • ixG /600.7764th pct
  • Goals above expected−8.119th pct

Play-driving

1st line
  • xGF% (5v5)50.5%66th pct
  • CF% (5v5)51.5%77th pct
  • Relative xGF%+1.979th pct
  • Penalty diff /600.3177th pct

Usage

1st line
  • TOI per game17:3990th pct
  • PP time share58.9%96th pct
  • Offensive zone starts68.8%90th pct
  • Quality of competition25.0%90th 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. Mathew BarzalNYI0.97
  2. Ray WhitneyPHX/DAL0.97
  3. Ales HemskyEDM/DAL0.96
  4. Jonathan HuberdeauFLA0.96
  5. Artemi PanarinCHI/CBJ/NYR0.95
  6. Mats ZuccarelloNYR/DAL/MIN0.95

Faceoffs

How often Voracek wins the draw over 2009–10 to 2022–23, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 2663+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

36.2%

98–173 · below the 2663 draws of a regular

Against an average centre

36.3%

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

Wins above average

−37

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

Draws per game

1.6

271 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

35%31 · +1.339%80 · +1.134%61 · −0.724%17 · −1.727%11 · −0.370%10 · 0.020%10 · +2.833%30 · +2.843%21 · +8.0Attacking 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 zone37.1% 52–88
  • Neutral zone34.2% 27–52
  • Defensive zone36.5% 19–33

By strength

  • Even strength35.3% 84–154
  • Power play48.1% 13–14
  • Shorthanded20.0% 1–4

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +9 after a win, −12 after a loss. Each win was worth 1.3 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Season by season

SeasonDrawsWin rateAgainst average
2009–10633.3%35.7%
2010–116536.9%36.8%
2011–122330.4%30.6%
2012–13540.0%40.3%
2013–14666.7%64.4%
2014–15966.7%66.9%
2015–16650.0%50.2%
2016–171421.4%22.8%
2017–183444.1%45.3%
2018–193040.0%40.7%
2019–202035.0%36.2%
2020–211741.2%39.5%
2021–223315.2%14.3%
2022–23333.3%27.8%

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.

−8.1 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 speed35.4 km/h45th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph2028th pct
  • Hardest shot138.9 km/h44th pct
  • Distance skated39 km22nd pct
  • Offensive-zone time41.6%45th 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

35.4 km/h32nd pct

▼ −2.0 km/h since 2021–22

343536373821–2222–232021–22: 37.4 km/h, 91st percentile (79 games)2022–23: 35.4 km/h, 32nd percentile (11 games, too few to rank reliably)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

6.868th pct

▼ −1.0 since 2021–22

24681021–2222–232021–22: 7.8, 74th percentile (79 games)2022–23: 6.8, 68th percentile (11 games, too few to rank reliably)

Distance skated per 60

13.3 km0th pct

▼ −2.1 km since 2021–22

12131415161721–2222–232021–22: 15.4 km, 41st percentile (79 games)2022–23: 13.3 km, 0th percentile (11 games, too few to rank reliably)

Hardest shot

138.9 km/h30th pct

▼ −6.6 km/h since 2021–22

13514014515015521–2222–232021–22: 145.5 km/h, 59th percentile (79 games)2022–23: 138.9 km/h, 30th percentile (11 games, too few to rank reliably)

Offensive-zone time

41.6%47th pct

▼ −0.7 points since 2021–22

38%40%42%44%46%21–2222–232021–22: 42.3%, 59th percentile (79 games)2022–23: 41.6%, 47th percentile (11 games, too few to rank reliably)