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Defence · #8

Kevin Connauton

Dallas Stars Columbus Blue Jackets Arizona Coyotes Colorado Avalanche Florida Panthers Philadelphia Flyers(traded during the season)
Age
36
Shoots
Left
Height
188 cm
Weight
93 kg
Born
Edmonton, CAN
Draft
2009, round 3, #83 (VAN)

Career · 2013–14 to 2021–22

Games
360
Goals
28
Points
80
TOI per game
15:43
xGF% (5v5)
45.6%
Goals above expected
+7.7

Season by season

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

2013–14DAL36178−615:20561.8%22.747.0%
2014–15DAL8022+412:05100.0%00.450.6%
2014–15CBJ5491019+116:508610.5%33.443.4%
2014–15All teams6291221+516:13969.4%33.844.4%
2015–16CBJ27178+1015:35442.3%21.557.4%
2015–16ARI38459−317:33656.2%12.039.3%
2015–16All teams6551217+716:441094.6%33.546.3%
2016–17ARI24011−113:08210.0%00.742.9%
2017–18ARI73111021+315:1110210.8%04.843.9%
2018–19ARI50178−218:21751.3%02.946.6%
2019–20COL4000−215:3040.0%00.364.2%
2020–21FLA7011+414:1350.0%00.252.4%
2021–22FLA13000+412:01140.0%00.855.9%
2021–22PHI26123−713:36166.3%00.642.3%
2021–22All teams39123−313:05303.3%01.446.9%
Total6 teams360285280+515:434985.6%820.345.6%

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)
00.20.40.60.8150100150200250300350
10m12m14m16m18m20m50100150200250300350Game

Player card

Model-based

How 2013–14 to 2021–22 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

3rd pair

28th 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

2nd pair
  • Goals /600.3085th pct
  • Assists /600.5539th pct
  • ixG /600.2166th pct
  • Shots /605.2881st pct

Play-driving

Extra / AHL
  • xGF% (5v5)45.6%18th pct
  • CF% (5v5)47.3%25th pct
  • Relative xGF%−3.022nd pct
  • xGA /60 (lower is better)2.6517th pct

Usage

3rd pair
  • TOI per game15:4329th pct
  • PP time share12.4%57th pct
  • PK time share13.5%27th pct
  • Quality of competition23.7%33rd 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).

Most similar players this season

  1. Stefan ElliottARI0.80
  2. Wyatt Kalynuk0.79
  3. Yannick WeberVAN/NSH0.79
  4. Brendan GuhleBUF/ANA0.74
  5. Gavin Bayreuther0.73
  6. Josh MahuraANA0.71

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.

+7.7 goals above expected

-505101520253050100150200250300350Game

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

−200+20+40+60

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/h55th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph1753rd pct
  • Hardest shot161.2 km/h94th pct
  • Distance skated118 km35th pct
  • Offensive-zone time40.7%41st 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

34.9 km/h43rd pct

2021–22 only

3434.53535.53636.521–222021–22: 34.9 km/h, 43rd percentile (39 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

2.065th pct

2021–22 only

0.511.522.5321–222021–22: 2.0, 65th percentile (39 games)

Distance skated per 60

13.8 km63rd pct

2021–22 only

1313.213.413.613.81414.221–222021–22: 13.8 km, 63rd percentile (39 games)

Hardest shot

161.2 km/h92nd pct

2021–22 only

14014515015516016521–222021–22: 161.2 km/h, 92nd percentile (39 games)

Offensive-zone time

40.7%41st pct

2021–22 only

39%40%41%42%43%44%21–222021–22: 40.7%, 41st percentile (39 games)