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Defence · #25

Ethan Bear

Edmonton Oilers Carolina Hurricanes Vancouver Canucks Washington Capitals(traded during the season)
Age
29
Shoots
Right
Height
180 cm
Weight
99 kg
Born
Regina, CAN
Draft
2015, round 5, #124 (EDM)

Career · 6 seasons

Games
275
Goals
17
Points
67
TOI per game
18:30
xGF% (5v5)
50.1%
Goals above expected
+0.2
ShowAll teamsEdmonton OilersCarolina HurricanesVancouver CanucksWashington Capitals

Season by season

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

2017–18EDM18134−1118:38205.0%20.842.7%
After a break: 2019–20EDM7151621−421:58995.1%13.848.3%
2020–21EDM43268−117:58533.8%02.155.1%
2021–22CAR585914+116:05975.2%14.654.6%
2022–23VAN6131316+618:32754.0%03.550.2%
2023–24WSH24134−514:54244.2%01.941.7%
Total4 teams275175067−1418:303684.6%416.850.1%

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)
00.10.20.30.40.50.650100150200250
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Player card

Model-based

How 6 seasons compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

2nd pair

60th 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

2nd pair
  • Goals /600.2057th pct
  • Assists /600.5943rd pct
  • ixG /600.2058th pct
  • Shots /604.3459th pct

Play-driving

2nd pair
  • xGF% (5v5)50.1%59th pct
  • CF% (5v5)50.2%63rd pct
  • Relative xGF%+0.362nd pct
  • xGA /60 (lower is better)2.6234th pct

Usage

2nd pair
  • TOI per game18:3060th pct
  • PP time share13.1%62nd pct
  • PK time share27.7%52nd pct
  • Quality of competition24.4%63rd 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

  1. Ben HuttonVAN/LAK/VGK0.70
  2. Brett PesceCAR0.70
  3. Joakim RyanSJS/LAK0.66
  4. Jaccob SlavinCAR0.60
  5. Christian WolaninOTT/LAK/VAN0.59
  6. Travis SanheimPHI0.58

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.

+0.2 goals above expected

0510152050100150200250Game

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

−100+10+20+30

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/h28th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph931st pct
  • Hardest shot141.3 km/h29th pct
  • Distance skated84 km23rd pct
  • Offensive-zone time37.5%4th 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

34.1 km/h17th pct

▼ −1.3 km/h since 2022–23

333435363721–2222–2323–242021–22: 34.5 km/h, 30th percentile (58 games)2022–23: 35.5 km/h, 56th percentile (61 games)2023–24: 34.1 km/h, 17th percentile (24 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

1.549th pct

▼ −0.8 since 2022–23

0.511.522.5321–2222–2323–242021–22: 1.7, 56th percentile (58 games)2022–23: 2.3, 78th percentile (61 games)2023–24: 1.5, 49th percentile (24 games)

Distance skated per 60

14.0 km78th pct

▲ +0.6 km since 2022–23

1313.51414.521–2222–2323–242021–22: 14.1 km, 85th percentile (58 games)2022–23: 13.4 km, 42nd percentile (61 games)2023–24: 14.0 km, 78th percentile (24 games)

Hardest shot

141.3 km/h18th pct

▼ −2.4 km/h since 2022–23

13514014515015516021–2222–2323–242021–22: 146.8 km/h, 27th percentile (58 games)2022–23: 143.8 km/h, 20th percentile (61 games)2023–24: 141.3 km/h, 18th percentile (24 games)

Offensive-zone time

37.5%4th pct

▼ −3.8 points since 2022–23

36%38%40%42%44%46%48%21–2222–2323–242021–22: 46.4%, 99th percentile (58 games)2022–23: 41.4%, 47th percentile (61 games)2023–24: 37.5%, 4th percentile (24 games)