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Right wing · #60

Alex Belzile

Montréal Canadiens
Age
35
Shoots
Right
Height
183 cm
Weight
90 kg
Born
St-Eloi, CAN
Draft
Undrafted

Career · 2020–21 to 2022–23

Games
44
Goals
6
Points
15
TOI per game
11:38
xGF% (5v5)
42.8%
Goals above expected
+1.9

Season by season

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

2020–21MTL2011−110:3930.0%00.242.1%
2021–22MTL11000010:24130.0%00.843.0%
2022–23MTL316814012:084015.0%03.142.8%
Total1 team446915−111:385610.7%04.142.8%

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)
00.10.20.30.40.50.610152025303540
8m9m10m11m12m13m14m10152025303540Game

Player card

Model-based

How 2020–21 to 2022–23 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

4th line

31st 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

3rd line
  • Goals /600.7047th pct
  • Assists /601.0661st pct
  • ixG /600.487th pct
  • Goals above expected+1.971st pct

Play-driving

4th line
  • xGF% (5v5)42.8%9th pct
  • CF% (5v5)43.8%8th pct
  • Relative xGF%−3.025th pct
  • Penalty diff /600.2370th pct

Usage

3rd line
  • TOI per game11:3822nd pct
  • PP time share9.3%33rd pct
  • Offensive zone starts43.4%24th pct
  • Quality of competition24.4%69th 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. Jayson MegnaANA0.87
  2. Greg McKegg0.87
  3. Kevin RooneyNYR0.85
  4. Matthew Highmore0.84
  5. Mitchell StephensDET0.84
  6. Tanner Laczynski0.83

Faceoffs

How often Belzile wins the draw over 2020–21 to 2022–23, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 546+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

47.2%

108–121 · below the 546 draws of a regular

Against an average centre

48.1%

Opponents won 50.9% of their draws; an average centre would have won 49.1% against them.

Wins above average

−4

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

Draws per game

5.9

229 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

53%53 · +0.133%12 · +5.350%38 · +0.183%6 · +0.127%15 · −0.525%4 · 0.057%14 · −0.656%18 · +5.842%69 · +1.9Attacking 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 zone46.0% 23–27
  • Neutral zone50.0% 46–46
  • Defensive zone44.8% 39–48

By strength

  • Even strength48.4% 103–110
  • Power play50.0% 2–2
  • Shorthanded25.0% 3–9

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: −1 after a win, −23 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
2020–21580.0%79.1%
2021–221942.1%43.7%
2022–2320546.8%47.7%

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.

+1.9 goals above expected

012345610203040Game

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

−40−200+20+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 speed36.3 km/h69th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph4043rd pct
  • Hardest shot139.4 km/h46th pct
  • Distance skated97 km30th pct
  • Offensive-zone time35.3%0th 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

36.3 km/h60th pct

▲ +1.0 km/h since 2021–22

3535.53636.53721–2222–232021–22: 35.3 km/h, 26th percentile (11 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 36.3 km/h, 60th percentile (31 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

6.465th pct

▲ +1.1 since 2021–22

24681021–2222–232021–22: 5.2, 51st percentile (11 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 6.4, 65th percentile (31 games)

Distance skated per 60

15.5 km54th pct

▲ +1.3 km since 2021–22

1414.51515.51616.521–2222–232021–22: 14.2 km, 3rd percentile (11 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 15.5 km, 54th percentile (31 games)

Hardest shot

139.4 km/h32nd pct

▲ +20.2 km/h since 2021–22

11012013014015016021–2222–232021–22: 119.3 km/h, 0th percentile (11 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 139.4 km/h, 32nd percentile (31 games)

Offensive-zone time

35.3%1st pct

▼ −2.6 points since 2021–22

34%36%38%40%42%44%46%21–2222–232021–22: 37.9%, 7th percentile (11 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 35.3%, 1st percentile (31 games)