Defence · #34

Paul LaDue

Los Angeles Kings

New York Islanders(traded during the season)

Age: 34
Shoots: Right
Height: 191 cm
Weight: 93 kg
Born: Grand Forks, USA
Draft: 2012, round 6, #181 (LAK)

Career · 5 seasons

Games: 70
Goals: 5
Points: 18
TOI per game: 14:01
xGF% (5v5): 53.1%
Goals above expected: +2.3

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Season by season

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


2016–17	LAK	22	0	8	8	−5	15:24	27	0.0%	4	1.0	57.4%
2017–18	LAK	12	3	1	4	+5	13:58	13	23.1%	1	0.3	54.8%
2018–19	LAK	33	2	3	5	0	13:13	33	6.1%	0	1.4	49.8%
2019–20	LAK	2	0	1	1	0	12:48	2	0.0%	0	0.0	51.8%
After a break: 2021–22	NYI	1	0	0	0	−2	12:47	1	0.0%	0	0.0	32.4%
Total	2 teams	70	5	13	18	−2	14:01	76	6.6%	5	2.7	53.1%

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)

Player card

Model-based

How 5 seasons compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

1st pair

87th percentile among qualified defencemen, blending scoring 30%, play-driving 50%, usage 20%.

1st pair
2nd pair
3rd pair
Extra / AHL

Scoring

2nd pair

Goals /600.3184th pct
Assists /600.7970th pct
ixG /600.1735th pct
Shots /604.6565th pct

Play-driving

1st pair

xGF% (5v5)53.1%86th pct
CF% (5v5)53.9%95th pct
Relative xGF%+3.594th pct
xGA /60 (lower is better)2.0597th pct

Usage

Extra / AHL

TOI per game14:0111th pct
PP time share13.6%59th pct
PK time share3.3%9th pct
Quality of competition23.7%28th 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

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.

+2.3 goals above expected

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

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 speed31.9 km/h5th pct
Speed bursts over 20 mph01st pct
Hardest shot118.3 km/h4th pct
Distance skated3 km3rd pct
Offensive-zone time42.6%64th 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

31.9 km/h0th pct

2021–22 only

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

0.00th pct

2021–22 only

Distance skated per 60

14.6 km97th pct

2021–22 only

Hardest shot

118.3 km/h0th pct

2021–22 only

Offensive-zone time

42.6%64th pct

2021–22 only