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Centre · #38

Derek Grant

Ottawa Senators Calgary Flames Buffalo Sabres Nashville Predators Anaheim Ducks Pittsburgh Penguins Philadelphia Flyers(traded during the season)
Age
36
Shoots
Left
Height
191 cm
Weight
95 kg
Born
Abbotsford, CAN
Draft
2008, round 4, #119 (OTT)

Career · 10 seasons

Games
6
Goals
0
Points
1
TOI per game
8:41
xGF% (5v5)
43.7%
Goals above expected
−0.5

Season by season

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

2012–13OTT5000−18:4050.0%00.547.9%
2013–14OTT20022−39:34310.0%01.952.1%
After a break: 2015–16CGY15011−710:53220.0%01.840.6%
2016–17BUF40033−39:55340.0%03.943.5%
2016–17NSH6011−28:4160.0%00.543.7%
2016–17All teams46044−59:46400.0%04.443.5%
2017–18ANA66121224+311:066518.5%39.546.0%
2018–19PIT25235+39:02267.7%02.052.6%
2018–19ANA31279−913:50484.2%05.249.4%
2018–19All teams5641014−611:41745.4%07.250.4%
2019–20ANA4914620−113:528117.3%111.143.4%
2019–20PHI7145+214:16137.7%02.141.3%
2019–20All teams56151025+113:559416.0%113.242.9%
2020–21ANA466915−414:34669.1%06.838.0%
2021–22ANA71151429−1614:1911712.8%213.344.4%
2022–23ANA4651318−414:51726.9%27.736.7%
Total7 teams4275775132−4212:365869.7%866.343.5%

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)
Game

Player card

Model-based

How 10 seasons compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

4th line

19th 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 /600.6447th pct
  • Assists /600.8448th pct
  • ixG /600.7459th pct
  • Goals above expected−9.311th pct

Play-driving

Extra / AHL
  • xGF% (5v5)43.5%12th pct
  • CF% (5v5)44.3%12th pct
  • Relative xGF%−4.618th pct
  • Penalty diff /60-0.2816th pct

Usage

3rd line
  • TOI per game12:3642nd pct
  • PP time share11.0%41st pct
  • Offensive zone starts29.8%5th pct
  • Quality of competition23.6%39th 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. Jay BeagleWSH/VAN/ARI0.88
  2. Maxim Lapierre0.87
  3. Paul Gaustad0.85
  4. Sam LaffertyPIT/CHI0.84
  5. Sam CarrickANA0.84
  6. Dominic MooreNYR/BOS0.84

Faceoffs

How often Grant wins the draw over 10 seasons, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 1849+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

52.2%

2069–1892 · #61 of 203 regulars, 70th percentile

Against an average centre

52.5%

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

Wins above average

+99

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

Draws per game

9.4

3,961 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

52%639 · +0.358%543 · +1.445%304 · +1.963%137 · +2.254%94 · +0.862%143 · +0.143%115 · +1.456%1114 · +2.644%872 · +2.1Attacking 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 zone53.2% 452–397
  • Neutral zone53.8% 607–521
  • Defensive zone50.9% 1010–974

By strength

  • Even strength53.7% 1537–1327
  • Power play61.7% 108–67
  • Shorthanded46.0% 424–498

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +8 after a win, −23 after a loss. Each win was worth 1.8 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Season by season

SeasonDrawsWin rateAgainst average
2012–133154.8%54.2%
2013–1415052.7%53.8%
2015–1611155.0%54.6%
2016–1738452.3%52.8%
2017–1859753.1%53.4%
2018–1951552.6%52.7%
2019–2069451.6%51.5%
2020–2156651.1%51.0%
2021–2242048.6%49.8%
2022–2349355.2%55.5%

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.

−0.5 goals above expected

00.10.20.30.40.5123456Game

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

−500+50+100

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/h18th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph1927th pct
  • Hardest shot150.0 km/h84th pct
  • Distance skated162 km40th pct
  • Offensive-zone time35.4%1st 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

▼ −0.9 km/h since 2021–22

333435363721–2222–232021–22: 35.1 km/h, 20th percentile (71 games)2022–23: 34.2 km/h, 5th percentile (46 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

1.710th pct

▲ +0.5 since 2021–22

024681021–2222–232021–22: 1.2, 4th percentile (71 games)2022–23: 1.7, 10th percentile (46 games)

Distance skated per 60

14.2 km5th pct

▲ +0.3 km since 2021–22

131415161721–2222–232021–22: 14.0 km, 1st percentile (71 games)2022–23: 14.2 km, 5th percentile (46 games)

Hardest shot

150.0 km/h80th pct

▲ +8.6 km/h since 2021–22

13514014515015521–2222–232021–22: 141.5 km/h, 40th percentile (71 games)2022–23: 150.0 km/h, 80th percentile (46 games)

Offensive-zone time

35.4%1st pct

▼ −1.1 points since 2021–22

34%36%38%40%42%44%46%21–2222–232021–22: 36.4%, 1st percentile (71 games)2022–23: 35.4%, 1st percentile (46 games)