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Left wing · #28

Brendan Lemieux

Winnipeg Jets New York Rangers Los Angeles Kings Philadelphia Flyers Carolina Hurricanes(traded during the season)
Age
30
Shoots
Left
Height
185 cm
Weight
98 kg
Born
Denver, USA
Draft
2014, round 2, #31 (BUF)

Career · 2017–18 to 2023–24

Games
307
Goals
36
Points
74
TOI per game
10:15
xGF% (5v5)
47.7%
Goals above expected
−0.8

Season by season

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

2017–18WPG9101+27:56616.7%00.450.1%
2018–19WPG449211+107:253724.3%03.542.3%
2018–19NYR19336−412:503010.0%02.847.7%
2018–19All teams6312517+69:036717.9%06.344.8%
2019–20NYR5961218−1412:52867.0%511.046.8%
2020–21NYR31257010:13316.5%02.843.7%
2020–21LAK18224−29:581910.5%01.435.0%
2020–21All teams494711−210:08508.0%04.340.4%
2021–22LAK508513+110:456512.3%07.756.3%
2022–23LAK27033−68:30220.0%01.753.7%
2022–23PHI18246+312:43229.1%02.345.0%
2022–23All teams45279−310:11444.5%04.149.2%
2023–24CAR3232508:002910.3%03.146.1%
Total5 teams307363874−1010:1534710.4%536.847.7%

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)
00.20.40.60.850100150200250300
4m6m8m10m12m14m16m50100150200250300Game

Player card

Model-based

How 2017–18 to 2023–24 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

4th line

31st 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 /600.6951st pct
  • Assists /600.7233rd pct
  • ixG /600.7045th pct
  • Goals above expected−0.855th pct

Play-driving

4th line
  • xGF% (5v5)47.7%38th pct
  • CF% (5v5)47.5%34th pct
  • Relative xGF%−2.731st pct
  • Penalty diff /600.0851st pct

Usage

Extra / AHL
  • TOI per game10:1513th pct
  • PP time share8.7%36th pct
  • Offensive zone starts60.9%67th pct
  • Quality of competition22.4%2nd 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. Jonah GadjovichSJS0.93
  2. Ryan ReavesPIT/VGK/NYR/MIN0.89
  3. Sammy BlaisSTL0.89
  4. Zac RinaldoARI0.86
  5. Klim KostinSTL/EDM0.86
  6. Nicolas DeslauriersMTL/ANA/PHI0.85

Faceoffs

How often Lemieux wins the draw over 2017–18 to 2023–24, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 1327+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

35.8%

53–95 · below the 1327 draws of a regular

Against an average centre

35.5%

Opponents won 49.7% of their draws; an average centre would have won 50.3% against them.

Wins above average

−21

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

Draws per game

1.4

148 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

41%22 · +0.349%43 · +2.825%36 · +8.50%5 · –25%4 · +2.350%4 · 0.043%7 · −4.329%14 · +2.231%13 · +1.3Attacking 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 zone38.0% 30–49
  • Neutral zone35.7% 15–27
  • Defensive zone29.6% 8–19

By strength

  • Even strength36.0% 49–87
  • Power play30.0% 3–7
  • Shorthanded50.0% 1–1

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +28 after a win, −4 after a loss. Each win was worth 2.6 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Season by season

SeasonDrawsWin rateAgainst average
2018–192035.0%34.0%
2019–204936.7%36.5%
2020–212623.1%22.9%
2021–222445.8%45.6%
2022–231450.0%49.8%
2023–241526.7%27.2%

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.

−0.8 goals above expected

01020304050100150200250300Game

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 speed36.6 km/h78th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph3135th pct
  • Hardest shot137.6 km/h41st pct
  • Distance skated69 km26th pct
  • Offensive-zone time43.7%70th 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

36.6 km/h74th pct

▼ −0.9 km/h since 2022–23

3436384021–2222–2323–242021–22: 38.9 km/h, 99th percentile (50 games)2022–23: 37.5 km/h, 94th percentile (45 games)2023–24: 36.6 km/h, 74th percentile (32 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

7.371st pct

▼ −1.9 since 2022–23

05101521–2222–2323–242021–22: 12.7, 94th percentile (50 games)2022–23: 9.2, 84th percentile (45 games)2023–24: 7.3, 71st percentile (32 games)

Distance skated per 60

16.2 km85th pct

▲ +0.2 km since 2022–23

14.51515.51616.521–2222–2323–242021–22: 15.6 km, 50th percentile (50 games)2022–23: 16.0 km, 81st percentile (45 games)2023–24: 16.2 km, 85th percentile (32 games)

Hardest shot

137.6 km/h28th pct

▼ −3.7 km/h since 2022–23

13514014515015521–2222–2323–242021–22: 141.3 km/h, 39th percentile (50 games)2022–23: 141.3 km/h, 42nd percentile (45 games)2023–24: 137.6 km/h, 28th percentile (32 games)

Offensive-zone time

43.7%73rd pct

▲ +3.4 points since 2022–23

38%40%42%44%46%21–2222–2323–242021–22: 41.4%, 45th percentile (50 games)2022–23: 40.3%, 30th percentile (45 games)2023–24: 43.7%, 73rd percentile (32 games)