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Left wing · #22

Craig Cunningham

Boston Bruins Arizona Coyotes(traded during the season)
Age
36
Shoots
Right
Height
178 cm
Weight
83 kg
Born
Trail, CAN
Draft
2010, round 4, #97 (BOS)

Career · 2013–14 to 2015–16

Games
63
Goals
3
Points
8
TOI per game
10:23
xGF% (5v5)
43.5%
Goals above expected
−1.9

Season by season

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

2013–14BOS200009:2940.0%00.452.0%
2014–15BOS32213−410:07316.5%01.749.7%
2014–15ARI19134−311:05234.3%02.036.7%
2014–15All teams51347−710:28545.6%03.743.6%
2015–16ARI10011−110:05130.0%00.940.0%
Total2 teams63358−810:23714.2%04.943.5%

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)
00.10.20.30.4102030405060
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Player card

How 2013–14 to 2015–16 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

Extra / AHL

9th 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 /600.289th pct
  • Assists /600.4615th pct
  • ixG /600.4513th pct
  • Goals above expected−1.938th pct

Play-driving

4th line
  • xGF% (5v5)43.5%12th pct
  • CF% (5v5)43.6%10th pct
  • Relative xGF%−5.216th pct
  • Penalty diff /600.1859th pct

Usage

4th line
  • TOI per game10:2315th pct
  • PP time share2.5%19th pct
  • Offensive zone starts35.2%10th pct
  • Quality of competition23.5%34th 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 Cunningham wins the draw over 2013–14 to 2015–16, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 612+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

50.7%

74–72 · below the 612 draws of a regular

Against an average centre

50.9%

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

Wins above average

+1

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

Draws per game

4.2

146 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

44%16 · 0.025%12 · +2.350%30 · +2.850%2 · −5.913%8 · +0.167%3 · 0.050%6 · +6.571%17 · −0.658%52 · +0.4Attacking 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 zone42.9% 18–24
  • Neutral zone40.0% 14–21
  • Defensive zone60.9% 42–27

By strength

  • Even strength48.8% 59–62
  • Power play50.0% 2–2
  • Shorthanded61.9% 13–8

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +3 after a win, −25 after a loss. Each win was worth 0.7 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Season by season

SeasonDrawsWin rateAgainst average
2013–14742.9%40.3%
2014–1513650.7%51.1%
2015–16366.7%68.1%

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.

−1.9 goals above expected

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

−30−20−100+10+20+30+40+50