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Centre · #13

Cedric Paquette

Tampa Bay Lightning Ottawa Senators Carolina Hurricanes Montréal Canadiens(traded during the season)
Age
33
Shoots
Left
Height
183 cm
Weight
93 kg
Born
Gaspe, CAN
Draft
2012, round 4, #101 (TBL)

Career · 2013–14 to 2021–22

Games
448
Goals
51
Points
95
TOI per game
11:45
xGF% (5v5)
49.6%
Goals above expected
−1.8
ShowAll teamsTampa Bay LightningOttawa SenatorsCarolina HurricanesMontréal Canadiens

Season by season

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

2013–14TBL2011+114:3310.0%00.241.3%
2014–15TBL6412719+413:379113.2%09.852.3%
2015–16TBL566511−212:445012.0%05.551.7%
2016–17TBL584610−611:31685.9%06.946.2%
2017–18TBL56549−510:12647.8%16.448.5%
2018–19TBL8013417+712:008714.9%09.849.7%
2019–20TBL6171118−113:03789.0%18.549.1%
2020–21OTT9101−810:15425.0%00.533.2%
2020–21CAR38347−49:082910.3%03.955.4%
2020–21All teams47448−129:213312.1%04.452.2%
2021–22MTL24022−68:52160.0%01.343.0%
Total4 teams448514495−2011:4548810.5%252.849.6%

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)
00.20.40.60.81100200300400
8m10m12m14m16m100200300400Game

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

4th line

26th 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 /600.5842nd pct
  • Assists /600.5017th pct
  • ixG /600.6032nd pct
  • Goals above expected−1.845th pct

Play-driving

3rd line
  • xGF% (5v5)49.6%57th pct
  • CF% (5v5)49.3%51st pct
  • Relative xGF%−3.923rd pct
  • Penalty diff /600.0345th pct

Usage

4th line
  • TOI per game11:4531st pct
  • PP time share1.6%13th pct
  • Offensive zone starts37.6%13th pct
  • Quality of competition23.0%17th 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. Miikka SalomakiNSH0.93
  2. Derek MacKenzieCBJ/FLA0.91
  3. Chris WagnerBOS0.89
  4. Cal ClutterbuckNYI0.86
  5. Jujhar KhairaEDM0.86
  6. Curtis LazarOTT/CGY/BUF/BOS0.86

Faceoffs

How often Paquette wins the draw over 2013–14 to 2021–22, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 1729+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

48.8%

1487–1561 · #137 of 194 regulars, 30th percentile

Against an average centre

48.6%

Opponents won 49.8% of their draws; an average centre would have won 50.2% against them.

Wins above average

−43

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

Draws per game

7.9

3,048 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

49%617 · +0.852%457 · +1.841%258 · +0.451%120 · +0.343%103 · +1.455%129 · −0.241%108 · +0.451%904 · +1.344%352 · +1.6Attacking 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 zone47.9% 342–372
  • Neutral zone48.7% 524–552
  • Defensive zone49.4% 621–637

By strength

  • Even strength49.7% 1282–1297
  • Power play55.8% 24–19
  • Shorthanded42.5% 181–245

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +8 after a win, −17 after a loss. Each win was worth 1.1 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Season by season

SeasonDrawsWin rateAgainst average
2013–142955.2%55.7%
2014–1523547.7%47.7%
2015–1628349.8%50.1%
2016–1743446.1%45.9%
2017–1849946.9%47.0%
2018–1976852.6%52.1%
2019–2062150.9%50.6%
2020–217544.0%44.0%
2021–2210429.8%29.8%

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.

−1.8 goals above expected

0102030405060100200300400Game

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

−500+50+100

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 speed33.4 km/h8th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph1020th pct
  • Hardest shot129.3 km/h22nd pct
  • Distance skated53 km27th pct
  • Offensive-zone time37.6%5th 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

33.4 km/h1st pct

2021–22 only

3234363821–222021–22: 33.4 km/h, 1st percentile (24 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

2.818th pct

2021–22 only

24681021–222021–22: 2.8, 18th percentile (24 games)

Distance skated per 60

15.0 km21st pct

2021–22 only

14.51515.51616.521–222021–22: 15.0 km, 21st percentile (24 games)

Hardest shot

129.3 km/h6th pct

2021–22 only

12013014015016021–222021–22: 129.3 km/h, 6th percentile (24 games)

Offensive-zone time

37.6%6th pct

2021–22 only

36%38%40%42%44%46%21–222021–22: 37.6%, 6th percentile (24 games)