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Centre · #15

Jori Lehtera

St. Louis Blues Philadelphia Flyers(traded during the season)
Age
38
Shoots
Left
Height
188 cm
Weight
96 kg
Born
Helsinki, FIN
Draft
2008, round 3, #65 (STL)

Career · 2014–15 to 2018–19

Games
307
Goals
34
Points
111
TOI per game
14:11
xGF% (5v5)
51.0%
Goals above expected
+2.4

Season by season

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

2014–15STL75143044+2116:1310313.6%711.154.4%
2015–16STL7992534+1216:058310.8%98.954.2%
2016–17STL6471522−615:116710.4%36.549.7%
2017–18PHI62358−810:31456.7%03.841.9%
2018–19PHI27123−79:07175.9%01.448.3%
Total2 teams3073477111+1214:1131510.8%1931.651.0%

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)
00.511.550100150200250300
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Player card

How 2014–15 to 2018–19 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

3rd line

54th 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

3rd line
  • Goals /600.4725th pct
  • Assists /601.0669th pct
  • ixG /600.449th pct
  • Goals above expected+2.476th pct

Play-driving

3rd line
  • xGF% (5v5)51.0%69th pct
  • CF% (5v5)51.1%70th pct
  • Relative xGF%+0.159th pct
  • Penalty diff /60-0.3611th pct

Usage

2nd line
  • TOI per game14:1158th pct
  • PP time share29.0%61st pct
  • Offensive zone starts64.1%76th pct
  • Quality of competition24.5%72nd 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 Lehtera wins the draw over 2014–15 to 2018–19, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 1015+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

50.7%

1601–1556 · #85 of 194 regulars, 56th percentile

Against an average centre

50.8%

Opponents won 50.0% of their draws; an average centre would have won 50.0% against them.

Wins above average

+24

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

Draws per game

10.9

3,157 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

50%511 · +0.854%752 · +2.049%576 · +1.757%159 · +0.351%116 · +0.152%124 · +0.341%113 · −1.550%499 · +1.850%307 · +2.2Attacking 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 zone51.5% 686–645
  • Neutral zone50.2% 512–507
  • Defensive zone49.9% 403–404

By strength

  • Even strength50.4% 1369–1345
  • Power play55.8% 189–150
  • Shorthanded41.3% 43–61

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +16 after a win, −12 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
2014–15106151.2%51.1%
2015–1696950.1%50.4%
2016–1783249.2%49.5%
2017–1814957.0%56.1%
2018–1914654.1%52.7%

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.

+2.4 goals above expected

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

−40−200+20+40+60