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Left wing · #13

Zachary Sanford

Washington Capitals St. Louis Blues Ottawa Senators Winnipeg Jets Nashville Predators Arizona Coyotes Chicago Blackhawks(traded during the season)
Age
31
Shoots
Left
Height
193 cm
Weight
93 kg
Born
Salem, USA
Draft
2013, round 2, #61 (WSH)

Career · 7 seasons

Games
26
Goals
2
Points
3
TOI per game
10:09
xGF% (5v5)
46.2%
Goals above expected
−0.4

Season by season

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

2016–17WSH26213010:09238.7%02.446.2%
2016–17STL13235+212:141315.4%01.651.3%
2016–17All teams39448+210:513611.1%03.947.8%
After a break: 2018–19STL6081220+812:357710.4%17.956.6%
2019–20STL58161430+1313:449017.8%111.848.9%
2020–21STL5210616−1314:536714.9%39.146.6%
2021–22OTT629817−1314:118510.6%310.545.3%
2021–22WPG18044−214:41190.0%03.349.7%
2021–22All teams8091221−1514:181048.7%313.946.5%
2022–23NSH16213−313:292010.0%02.446.0%
2023–24ARI11022+39:1590.0%01.157.3%
2023–24CHI18044−311:48150.0%12.246.3%
2023–24All teams29066010:50240.0%13.449.8%
Total7 teams3344955104−813:1441811.7%952.449.2%

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)
00.050.10.150.2101214161820222426
9m10m10m10m10m10m101214161820222426Game

Player card

Model-based

How 7 seasons compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

3rd line

43rd 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 /600.6648th pct
  • Assists /600.7535th pct
  • ixG /600.7147th pct
  • Goals above expected−3.432nd pct

Play-driving

3rd line
  • xGF% (5v5)49.2%52nd pct
  • CF% (5v5)47.3%32nd pct
  • Relative xGF%0.059th pct
  • Penalty diff /600.0043rd pct

Usage

3rd line
  • TOI per game13:1448th pct
  • PP time share16.8%47th pct
  • Offensive zone starts51.7%40th pct
  • Quality of competition24.0%51st 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. Hudson FaschingARI/NYI0.81
  2. Jake LucchiniMIN0.78
  3. Nils AmanVAN0.77
  4. Anders BjorkBOS/BUF0.77
  5. Simon HolmstromNYI0.76
  6. Lance BoumaCGY0.75

Faceoffs

How often Sanford wins the draw over 7 seasons, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 1327+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

36.4%

103–180 · below the 1327 draws of a regular

Against an average centre

35.5%

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

Wins above average

−41

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

Draws per game

2.9

283 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

42%48 · −0.536%73 · +0.127%41 · +0.450%12 · +0.931%16 · 0.042%12 · +0.520%10 · 0.043%37 · +2.235%34 · +1.0Attacking 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 zone32.5% 37–77
  • Neutral zone38.8% 38–60
  • Defensive zone39.4% 28–43

By strength

  • Even strength36.2% 97–171
  • Power play38.5% 5–8
  • Shorthanded50.0% 1–1

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +5 after a win, −5 after a loss. Each win was worth 0.3 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Season by season

SeasonDrawsWin rateAgainst average
2016–173943.6%44.4%
2018–191361.5%60.7%
2019–20911.1%12.3%
2020–216841.2%39.7%
2021–222222.7%22.5%
2022–231315.4%12.3%
2023–2411935.3%34.1%

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.

−0.4 goals above expected

00.511.522.5510152025Game

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

−80−60−40−200+20+40+60+80+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 speed34.2 km/h15th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph1924th pct
  • Hardest shot138.0 km/h43rd pct
  • Distance skated82 km29th pct
  • Offensive-zone time39.8%22nd 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

34.2 km/h5th pct

▲ +0.2 km/h since 2022–23

333435363721–2222–2323–242021–22: 36.3 km/h, 60th percentile (80 games)2022–23: 34.0 km/h, 4th percentile (16 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 34.2 km/h, 5th percentile (29 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

3.631st pct

▲ +0.6 since 2022–23

24681021–2222–2323–242021–22: 5.6, 54th percentile (80 games)2022–23: 3.1, 25th percentile (16 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 3.6, 31st percentile (29 games)

Distance skated per 60

15.7 km58th pct

▲ +0.6 km since 2022–23

14.51515.51616.521–2222–2323–242021–22: 15.0 km, 23rd percentile (80 games)2022–23: 15.0 km, 27th percentile (16 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 15.7 km, 58th percentile (29 games)

Hardest shot

138.0 km/h30th pct

▲ +6.7 km/h since 2022–23

12013014015016021–2222–2323–242021–22: 134.5 km/h, 16th percentile (80 games)2022–23: 131.3 km/h, 9th percentile (16 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 138.0 km/h, 30th percentile (29 games)

Offensive-zone time

39.8%26th pct

▲ +0.1 points since 2022–23

38%40%42%44%46%21–2222–2323–242021–22: 40.1%, 30th percentile (80 games)2022–23: 39.7%, 22nd percentile (16 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 39.8%, 26th percentile (29 games)