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Defence · #20

Luke Witkowski

Tampa Bay Lightning Detroit Red Wings(traded during the season)
Age
36
Shoots
Right
Height
188 cm
Weight
95 kg
Born
Holland, USA
Draft
2008, round 6, #160 (TBL)

Career · 7 seasons

Games
132
Goals
2
Points
13
TOI per game
9:34
xGF% (5v5)
48.1%
Goals above expected
−3.2

Season by season

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

2014–15TBL16000015:11100.0%00.353.2%
2015–16TBL400007:0810.0%00.063.5%
2016–17TBL34044−19:52240.0%01.553.0%
2017–18DET31134−16:53166.3%01.748.6%
2018–19DET34022−59:36140.0%00.643.6%
2019–20TBL12123−48:481010.0%11.126.9%
After a break: 2021–22DET100009:180–00.027.2%
Total2 teams13221113−119:34752.7%15.248.1%

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)
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Player card

How 7 seasons compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

3rd pair

26th 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

3rd pair
  • Goals /600.1021st pct
  • Assists /600.5233rd pct
  • ixG /600.2574th pct
  • Shots /603.5733rd pct

Play-driving

3rd pair
  • xGF% (5v5)48.1%37th pct
  • CF% (5v5)46.3%16th pct
  • Relative xGF%+0.767th pct
  • xGA /60 (lower is better)2.3261st pct

Usage

Extra / AHL
  • TOI per game9:340th pct
  • PP time share1.0%12th pct
  • PK time share5.6%13th pct
  • Quality of competition23.3%15th 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.

−3.2 goals above expected

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

−20−100+10+20+30+40

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 speed32.6 km/h10th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph17th pct
  • Hardest shot99.6 km/h1st pct
  • Distance skated3 km1st pct
  • Offensive-zone time33.6%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

32.6 km/h0th pct

2021–22 only

32333435363721–222021–22: 32.6 km/h, 0th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

6.5100th pct

2021–22 only

0246821–222021–22: 6.5, 100th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)

Distance skated per 60

16.5 km100th pct

2021–22 only

12131415161721–222021–22: 16.5 km, 100th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)

Hardest shot

99.6 km/h0th pct

2021–22 only

8010012014016018021–222021–22: 99.6 km/h, 0th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)

Offensive-zone time

33.6%0th pct

2021–22 only

30%35%40%45%50%21–222021–22: 33.6%, 0th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)