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Centre · #17

James Wright

Tampa Bay Lightning Winnipeg Jets(traded during the season)
Age
36
Shoots
Left
Height
193 cm
Weight
95 kg
Born
Saskatoon, CAN
Draft
2008, round 4, #117 (TBL)

Career · 4 seasons

Games
146
Goals
4
Points
12
TOI per game
10:45
xGF% (5v5)
46.0%
Goals above expected
−6.6

Season by season

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

2009–10TBL48235−911:39258.0%03.0–
2010–11TBL1000−24:360–00.06.8%
After a break: 2012–13WPG38235−511:36326.3%02.644.7%
2013–14WPG59022−39:35410.0%05.048.0%
Total2 teams1464812−1910:45984.1%010.646.0%

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)
00.10.20.30.420406080100120140
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Player card

How 4 seasons compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

Extra / AHL

7th 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 /600.152nd pct
  • Assists /600.314th pct
  • ixG /600.417th pct
  • Goals above expected−6.614th pct

Play-driving

4th line
  • xGF% (5v5)46.0%22nd pct
  • CF% (5v5)46.0%19th pct
  • Relative xGF%−5.316th pct
  • Penalty diff /600.5084th pct

Usage

Extra / AHL
  • TOI per game10:4517th pct
  • PP time share0.4%2nd pct
  • Offensive zone starts36.1%9th pct
  • Quality of competition23.1%12th 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 Wright wins the draw over 4 seasons, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 724+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

46.1%

223–261 · below the 724 draws of a regular

Against an average centre

46.3%

Opponents won 50.3% of their draws; an average centre would have won 49.7% against them.

Wins above average

−18

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

Draws per game

4.2

484 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

34%62 · −0.348%63 · +2.643%30 · +1.256%25 · −0.453%15 · +1.452%33 · +0.365%20 · −0.248%191 · +1.933%45 · +1.6Attacking 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 zone46.3% 44–51
  • Neutral zone47.1% 73–82
  • Defensive zone45.3% 106–128

By strength

  • Even strength48.2% 146–157
  • Power play66.7% 2–1
  • Shorthanded42.0% 74–102

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +5 after a win, −23 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
2009–1016744.9%44.6%
2010–1120.0%-1.7%
2012–134647.8%48.0%
2013–1426946.8%47.5%

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.

−6.6 goals above expected

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

−200+20+40+60