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Centre · #68

Mike Hoffman

Ottawa Senators Florida Panthers St. Louis Blues Montréal Canadiens San Jose Sharks(traded during the season)
Age
36
Shoots
Left
Height
183 cm
Weight
86 kg
Born
Kitchener, CAN
Draft
2009, round 5, #130 (OTT)

Career · 2011–12 to 2023–24

Games
745
Goals
228
Points
487
TOI per game
16:23
xGF% (5v5)
46.4%
Goals above expected
+59.7

Season by season

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

2011–12OTT1000−19:010–00.139.5%
2012–13OTT3000−112:1960.0%00.545.1%
2013–14OTT25336−213:11614.9%35.049.4%
2014–15OTT79272148+1614:3319913.6%318.254.0%
2015–16OTT78293059+117:3324212.0%1318.150.5%
2016–17OTT74263561+1717:3622411.6%2619.048.4%
2017–18OTT82223456−2018:242578.6%2118.344.7%
2018–19FLA82363470−2417:5025314.2%3522.547.3%
2019–20FLA69293059−516:5021413.6%2020.847.3%
2020–21STL52171936+215:0411315.0%178.941.6%
2021–22MTL67152035−2417:031549.7%1314.242.2%
2022–23MTL67142034−1015:401489.5%1013.943.9%
2023–24SJS66101323−2113:447114.1%69.040.0%
Total5 teams745228259487−7216:231,94211.7%167168.346.4%

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)
00.511.5100200300400500600700
10m12m14m16m18m20m22m100200300400500600700Game

Player card

Model-based

How 2011–12 to 2023–24 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

1st line

79th 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

1st line
  • Goals /601.1293rd pct
  • Assists /601.2784th pct
  • ixG /600.8373rd pct
  • Goals above expected+59.799th pct

Play-driving

4th line
  • xGF% (5v5)46.4%29th pct
  • CF% (5v5)48.3%44th pct
  • Relative xGF%−0.654th pct
  • Penalty diff /60-0.0634th pct

Usage

1st line
  • TOI per game16:2381st pct
  • PP time share52.7%91st pct
  • Offensive zone starts68.4%89th pct
  • Quality of competition24.5%73rd 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. Vincent LecavalierPHI/LAK0.94
  2. Jarome IginlaCOL0.94
  3. Radim VrbataVAN/ARI/FLA0.93
  4. Michael CammalleriCGY/NJD/LAK0.93
  5. Patrik LaineWPG/CBJ0.92
  6. Brock BoeserVAN0.91

Faceoffs

How often Hoffman wins the draw over 2011–12 to 2023–24, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 2461+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

50.0%

123–123 · below the 2461 draws of a regular

Against an average centre

50.0%

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

Wins above average

0

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

Draws per game

1.4

246 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

50%14 · −1.154%119 · −0.438%48 · +1.958%12 · +10.280%5 · +3.450%8 · +4.333%6 · 0.052%23 · +6.545%11 · +1.5Attacking 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 zone49.1% 82–85
  • Neutral zone53.3% 24–21
  • Defensive zone50.0% 17–17

By strength

  • Even strength49.5% 101–103
  • Power play50.0% 20–20
  • Shorthanded100.0% 2–0

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +19 after a win, +1 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
2012–132100.0%97.1%
2013–14966.7%63.5%
2014–151450.0%46.8%
2015–161844.4%44.0%
2016–172157.1%56.6%
2017–184055.0%56.2%
2018–193834.2%34.9%
2019–201546.7%46.6%
2020–21966.7%65.3%
2021–222060.0%58.9%
2022–232857.1%57.9%
2023–243237.5%38.5%

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.

+59.7 goals above expected

050100150200250100200300400500600700Game

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

−500+50+100+150

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 speed34.9 km/h25th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph6053rd pct
  • Hardest shot159.2 km/h98th pct
  • Distance skated239 km55th pct
  • Offensive-zone time39.1%15th 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

34.9 km/h13th pct

▼ −1.6 km/h since 2022–23

34.53535.53636.53721–2222–2323–242021–22: 36.4 km/h, 67th percentile (67 games)2022–23: 36.5 km/h, 72nd percentile (67 games)2023–24: 34.9 km/h, 13th percentile (66 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

4.036th pct

▲ +0.5 since 2022–23

24681021–2222–2323–242021–22: 4.3, 39th percentile (67 games)2022–23: 3.4, 32nd percentile (67 games)2023–24: 4.0, 36th percentile (66 games)

Distance skated per 60

15.9 km70th pct

▲ +0.5 km since 2022–23

14.51515.51616.521–2222–2323–242021–22: 15.5 km, 46th percentile (67 games)2022–23: 15.4 km, 47th percentile (67 games)2023–24: 15.9 km, 70th percentile (66 games)

Hardest shot

159.2 km/h98th pct

▼ −1.9 km/h since 2022–23

13014015016017021–2222–2323–242021–22: 151.4 km/h, 82nd percentile (67 games)2022–23: 161.1 km/h, 99th percentile (67 games)2023–24: 159.2 km/h, 98th percentile (66 games)

Offensive-zone time

39.1%18th pct

▼ −1.8 points since 2022–23

38%40%42%44%46%21–2222–2323–242021–22: 41.3%, 44th percentile (67 games)2022–23: 40.9%, 38th percentile (67 games)2023–24: 39.1%, 18th percentile (66 games)