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Centre · #15

John Hayden

Chicago Blackhawks New Jersey Devils Arizona Coyotes Buffalo Sabres Seattle Kraken(traded during the season)
Age
31
Shoots
Right
Height
191 cm
Weight
101 kg
Born
Chicago, USA
Draft
2013, round 3, #74 (CHI)

Career · 2016–17 to 2025–26

Games
272
Goals
18
Points
39
TOI per game
9:58
xGF% (5v5)
44.9%
Goals above expected
−8.5

Season by season

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

2016–17CHI12134+311:41224.5%01.959.0%
2017–18CHI474913−410:49567.1%05.344.4%
2018–19CHI54325−129:10427.1%05.147.9%
2019–20NJD43314−29:43397.7%03.039.2%
2020–21ARI29235−49:49219.5%01.643.5%
2021–22BUF55224−1210:51653.1%05.640.8%
2022–23SEA7202+27:55922.2%01.148.2%
2023–24SEA2000−16:4410.0%00.047.2%
2024–25SEA2011208:31205.0%02.751.7%
2025–26SEA3000−110:0520.0%00.334.9%
Total5 teams272182139−319:582776.5%026.544.9%

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)
00.10.20.30.450100150200250
7m8m9m10m11m12m13m50100150200250Game

Player card

Model-based

How 2016–17 to 2025–26 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

Extra / AHL

6th 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

Extra / AHL
  • Goals /600.4017th pct
  • Assists /600.4611th pct
  • ixG /600.5924th pct
  • Goals above expected−8.517th pct

Play-driving

Extra / AHL
  • xGF% (5v5)44.9%19th pct
  • CF% (5v5)45.6%17th pct
  • Relative xGF%−3.426th pct
  • Penalty diff /60-0.0932nd pct

Usage

Extra / AHL
  • TOI per game9:5812th pct
  • PP time share3.6%25th pct
  • Offensive zone starts49.9%38th pct
  • Quality of competition23.2%16th 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. Nicolas DeslauriersMTL/ANA/PHI0.94
  2. Zac RinaldoARI/NSH0.93
  3. Matt MartinTOR/NYI0.90
  4. Liam O'Brien0.90
  5. Gabriel BourqueCOL/WPG0.90
  6. Zack MacEwenPHI0.89

Faceoffs

How often Hayden wins the draw over 2016–17 to 2025–26, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 1937+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

39.4%

67–103 · below the 1937 draws of a regular

Against an average centre

39.0%

Opponents won 49.6% of their draws; an average centre would have won 50.4% against them.

Wins above average

−19

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

Draws per game

1.9

170 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

50%30 · +0.543%21 · +1.540%48 · +1.00%4 · –38%8 · −0.625%4 · 0.023%13 · +0.957%7 · +4.037%35 · +3.4Attacking 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 zone40.6% 28–41
  • Neutral zone37.3% 22–37
  • Defensive zone40.5% 17–25

By strength

  • Even strength37.9% 58–95
  • Power play57.1% 4–3
  • Shorthanded50.0% 5–5

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +13 after a win, −17 after a loss. Each win was worth 1.5 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Season by season

SeasonDrawsWin rateAgainst average
2017–182450.0%49.3%
2018–192924.1%23.1%
2019–201921.1%22.1%
2020–211330.8%29.5%
2021–22922.2%23.1%
2022–2310.0%-5.4%
2023–24250.0%52.3%
2024–255853.4%52.3%
2025–261540.0%41.6%

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.

−8.5 goals above expected

-505101520253050100150200250Game

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 speed34.1 km/h14th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph36th pct
  • Hardest shot127.6 km/h18th pct
  • Distance skated8 km7th pct
  • Offensive-zone time39.0%13th 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

34.1 km/h5th pct

▼ −1.0 km/h since 2024–25

3234363821–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 35.0 km/h, 19th percentile (55 games)2022–23: 34.7 km/h, 11th percentile (7 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 32.8 km/h, 0th percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 35.2 km/h, 21st percentile (20 games)2025–26: 34.1 km/h, 5th percentile (3 games, too few to rank reliably)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

6.057th pct

▲ +2.4 since 2024–25

24681021–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 3.7, 30th percentile (55 games)2022–23: 5.4, 55th percentile (7 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 4.5, 42nd percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 3.5, 26th percentile (20 games)2025–26: 6.0, 57th percentile (3 games, too few to rank reliably)

Distance skated per 60

16.5 km96th pct

▲ +0.3 km since 2024–25

14.51515.51616.51721–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 15.8 km, 60th percentile (55 games)2022–23: 15.7 km, 66th percentile (7 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 16.6 km, 94th percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 16.2 km, 87th percentile (20 games)2025–26: 16.5 km, 96th percentile (3 games, too few to rank reliably)

Hardest shot

127.6 km/h6th pct

▲ +6.0 km/h since 2024–25

11012013014015016021–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 133.2 km/h, 13th percentile (55 games)2022–23: 135.4 km/h, 17th percentile (7 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 127.1 km/h, 5th percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 121.6 km/h, 1st percentile (20 games)2025–26: 127.6 km/h, 6th percentile (3 games, too few to rank reliably)

Offensive-zone time

39.0%14th pct

▼ −2.7 points since 2024–25

36%38%40%42%44%46%48%21–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 38.7%, 13th percentile (55 games)2022–23: 41.2%, 42nd percentile (7 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 45.8%, 90th percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 41.7%, 46th percentile (20 games)2025–26: 39.0%, 14th percentile (3 games, too few to rank reliably)