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Right wing · #25

Devante Smith-Pelly

Age
34
Shoots
Right
Height
183 cm
Weight
101 kg
Born
Scarborough, CAN
Draft
2010, round 2, #42 (ANA)

Career · 2011–12 to 2018–19

Games
395
Goals
44
Points
101
TOI per game
12:34
xGF% (5v5)
46.1%
Goals above expected
−9.8

Season by season

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

2011–12ANA497613−712:036610.6%26.947.6%
2012–13ANA7000−49:0050.0%00.235.1%
2013–14ANA192810+512:39238.7%02.549.0%
2014–15ANA5451217+114:39766.6%17.347.5%
2014–15MTL20123−213:18283.6%01.542.2%
2014–15All teams7461420−114:171045.8%18.846.3%
2015–16MTL466612−211:006010.0%05.147.3%
2015–16NJD188513−115:353423.5%14.448.6%
2015–16All teams64141125−312:189414.9%19.647.8%
2016–17NJD53459−1913:30765.3%26.940.9%
2017–18WSH757916−612:211036.8%010.747.5%
2018–19WSH54448−610:51606.7%08.244.8%
Total4 teams3954457101−4112:345318.3%653.846.1%

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)
00.20.40.60.811.250100150200250300350
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Player card

How 2011–12 to 2018–19 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

4th line

23rd 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

4th line
  • Goals /600.5337th pct
  • Assists /600.6934th pct
  • ixG /600.6545th pct
  • Goals above expected−9.810th pct

Play-driving

4th line
  • xGF% (5v5)46.1%25th pct
  • CF% (5v5)44.7%13th pct
  • Relative xGF%−3.128th pct
  • Penalty diff /600.0749th pct

Usage

3rd line
  • TOI per game12:3443rd pct
  • PP time share11.7%43rd pct
  • Offensive zone starts49.3%32nd pct
  • Quality of competition23.7%44th 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 Smith-Pelly wins the draw over 2011–12 to 2018–19, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 1539+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

35.7%

92–166 · below the 1539 draws of a regular

Against an average centre

36.5%

Opponents won 50.8% of their draws; an average centre would have won 49.2% against them.

Wins above average

−35

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

Draws per game

2.0

258 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

28%39 · +1.329%31 · +2.633%73 · −0.146%13 · +2.546%13 · +3.830%10 · 0.047%15 · +1.125%8 · +4.043%56 · −0.2Attacking 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 zone31.7% 33–71
  • Neutral zone36.7% 33–57
  • Defensive zone40.6% 26–38

By strength

  • Even strength34.8% 64–120
  • Power play40.7% 11–16
  • Shorthanded36.2% 17–30

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +21 after a win, −7 after a loss. Each win was worth 0.8 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Season by season

SeasonDrawsWin rateAgainst average
2011–122128.6%27.2%
2013–1440.0%0.4%
2014–158327.7%29.2%
2015–16540.0%40.2%
2016–177140.8%41.4%
2017–183348.5%48.9%
2018–194139.0%40.4%

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.

−9.8 goals above expected

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

−60−40−200+20+40+60+80+100+120