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Defence · #65

Danny DeKeyser

Age
36
Shoots
Left
Height
191 cm
Weight
83 kg
Born
Detroit, USA
Draft
Undrafted

Career · 2012–13 to 2021–22

Games
547
Goals
33
Points
146
TOI per game
20:46
xGF% (5v5)
48.1%
Goals above expected
+5.9

Season by season

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

2012–13DET11011+418:03150.0%00.554.9%
2013–14DET6541923+1021:38844.8%43.649.3%
2014–15DET8022931+1120:56892.2%63.954.2%
2015–16DET7881220+221:487211.1%02.850.8%
2016–17DET824812−2221:57854.7%03.445.7%
2017–18DET656612+220:19659.2%03.649.5%
2018–19DET5251520+221:58598.5%03.547.2%
2019–20DET8044022:04120.0%01.436.0%
2020–21DET474812+318:06439.3%01.742.8%
2021–22DET5901111−818:30570.0%02.643.0%
Total1 team54733113146+420:465815.7%1027.148.1%

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)
00.20.40.60.8100200300400500
14m16m18m20m22m24m26m100200300400500Game

Player card

How 2012–13 to 2021–22 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

2nd pair

48th percentile among qualified defencemen, blending scoring 30%, play-driving 50%, usage 20%.

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

Scoring

3rd pair
  • Goals /600.1754th pct
  • Assists /600.6049th pct
  • ixG /600.1429th pct
  • Shots /603.0720th pct

Play-driving

3rd pair
  • xGF% (5v5)48.1%38th pct
  • CF% (5v5)48.1%34th pct
  • Relative xGF%−0.745th pct
  • xGA /60 (lower is better)2.3163rd pct

Usage

1st pair
  • TOI per game20:4682nd pct
  • PP time share12.2%54th pct
  • PK time share46.0%87th pct
  • Quality of competition24.8%89th 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).

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.

+5.9 goals above expected

0102030100200300400500Game

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

−200+20+40+60

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 speed33.2 km/h18th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph213th pct
  • Hardest shot143.3 km/h30th pct
  • Distance skated250 km56th pct
  • Offensive-zone time38.5%6th 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

33.2 km/h6th pct

2021–22 only

32333435363721–222021–22: 33.2 km/h, 6th percentile (59 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

0.11st pct

2021–22 only

012321–222021–22: 0.1, 1st percentile (59 games)

Distance skated per 60

13.7 km54th pct

2021–22 only

1313.213.413.613.81414.221–222021–22: 13.7 km, 54th percentile (59 games)

Hardest shot

143.3 km/h14th pct

2021–22 only

14014515015516021–222021–22: 143.3 km/h, 14th percentile (59 games)

Offensive-zone time

38.5%6th pct

2021–22 only

36%38%40%42%44%21–222021–22: 38.5%, 6th percentile (59 games)