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Right wing · #10

Daniel Sprong

Pittsburgh Penguins Anaheim Ducks Washington Capitals Seattle Kraken Detroit Red Wings Vancouver Canucks New Jersey Devils(traded during the season)
Age
29
Shoots
Right
Height
183 cm
Weight
88 kg
Born
Amsterdam, NLD
Draft
2015, round 2, #46 (PIT)

Career · 9 seasons

Games
374
Goals
87
Points
166
TOI per game
11:58
xGF% (5v5)
50.1%
Goals above expected
+17.8

Season by season

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

2015–16PIT18202−18:44238.7%01.441.5%
After a break: 2017–18PIT8213+213:59229.1%02.276.7%
2018–19PIT16044−78:34160.0%11.246.8%
2018–19ANA4714519−913:0710912.8%49.247.1%
2018–19All teams6314923−1611:5712511.2%510.447.1%
2019–20ANA8112−214:06175.9%11.555.2%
2020–21WSH4213720+711:407417.6%05.950.4%
2021–22WSH478614+612:451027.8%010.552.3%
2021–22SEA16606−613:425111.8%24.747.3%
2021–22All teams6314620012:591539.2%215.251.0%
2022–23SEA66212546+1311:2514714.3%1412.855.4%
2023–24DET76182543−512:0016011.3%1215.945.9%
2024–25VAN9123−211:39195.3%10.845.8%
2024–25SEA10112+112:22128.3%01.444.4%
2024–25NJD11022012:29240.0%11.652.8%
2024–25All teams30257−112:12553.6%23.846.8%
Total7 teams3748779166−311:5877611.2%3669.250.1%

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)
00.20.40.60.811.250100150200250300350
8m10m12m14m16m50100150200250300350Game

Player card

Model-based

How 9 seasons compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

2nd line

78th 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

1st line
  • Goals /601.1793rd pct
  • Assists /601.0669th pct
  • ixG /600.9381st pct
  • Goals above expected+17.894th pct

Play-driving

2nd line
  • xGF% (5v5)50.1%64th pct
  • CF% (5v5)50.0%64th pct
  • Relative xGF%+0.667th pct
  • Penalty diff /600.1155th pct

Usage

3rd line
  • TOI per game11:5834th pct
  • PP time share28.8%63rd pct
  • Offensive zone starts70.3%91st pct
  • Quality of competition23.2%20th 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. Jakub VranaWSH0.92
  2. Nick RobertsonTOR0.91
  3. Brandon PirriVGK0.90
  4. Owen TippettFLA/PHI0.86
  5. Tage ThompsonBUF0.86
  6. Ryan DonatoBOS/SEA/CHI0.85

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.

+17.8 goals above expected

02040608010050100150200250300350Game

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 speed35.4 km/h39th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph5245th pct
  • Hardest shot152.6 km/h96th pct
  • Distance skated99 km31st pct
  • Offensive-zone time44.5%83rd 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

35.4 km/h27th pct

▼ −0.6 km/h since 2023–24

3535.53636.53737.521–2222–2323–2424–252021–22: 36.5 km/h, 71st percentile (63 games)2022–23: 36.3 km/h, 62nd percentile (66 games)2023–24: 36.1 km/h, 56th percentile (76 games)2024–25: 35.4 km/h, 27th percentile (30 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

8.578th pct

▲ +1.1 since 2023–24

24681021–2222–2323–2424–252021–22: 8.4, 78th percentile (63 games)2022–23: 7.8, 76th percentile (66 games)2023–24: 7.4, 72nd percentile (76 games)2024–25: 8.5, 78th percentile (30 games)

Distance skated per 60

16.2 km87th pct

▲ +1.0 km since 2023–24

14.51515.51616.521–2222–2323–2424–252021–22: 16.0 km, 73rd percentile (63 games)2022–23: 15.3 km, 43rd percentile (66 games)2023–24: 15.3 km, 30th percentile (76 games)2024–25: 16.2 km, 87th percentile (30 games)

Hardest shot

152.6 km/h95th pct

▲ +1.0 km/h since 2023–24

13014015016017021–2222–2323–2424–252021–22: 155.8 km/h, 94th percentile (63 games)2022–23: 157.9 km/h, 97th percentile (66 games)2023–24: 151.6 km/h, 85th percentile (76 games)2024–25: 152.6 km/h, 95th percentile (30 games)

Offensive-zone time

44.5%84th pct

▲ +2.5 points since 2023–24

38%40%42%44%46%21–2222–2323–2424–252021–22: 43.0%, 67th percentile (63 games)2022–23: 43.5%, 68th percentile (66 games)2023–24: 42.0%, 52nd percentile (76 games)2024–25: 44.5%, 84th percentile (30 games)