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Centre · #67

Mitchell Stephens

Tampa Bay Lightning Detroit Red Wings Montréal Canadiens Seattle Kraken(traded during the season)
Age
29
Shoots
Right
Height
183 cm
Weight
92 kg
Born
Peterborough, CAN
Draft
2015, round 2, #33 (TBL)

Career · 5 seasons

Games
123
Goals
6
Points
19
TOI per game
10:07
xGF% (5v5)
41.1%
Goals above expected
−2.1
ShowAll teamsTampa Bay LightningDetroit Red WingsMontréal CanadiensSeattle Kraken

Season by season

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

2019–20TBL38336−910:47437.0%03.954.3%
2020–21TBL7011−59:2830.0%00.223.4%
2021–22DET27066−811:11170.0%01.237.6%
After a break: 2023–24MTL23213+29:031612.5%00.928.0%
2024–25SEA28123−89:14195.3%01.840.6%
Total4 teams12361319−2810:07986.1%08.141.1%

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)
00.10.20.30.420406080100120
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Player card

Model-based

How 5 seasons compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

Extra / AHL

2nd 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 /600.297th pct
  • Assists /600.6322nd pct
  • ixG /600.392nd pct
  • Goals above expected−2.141st pct

Play-driving

Extra / AHL
  • xGF% (5v5)41.1%5th pct
  • CF% (5v5)44.6%12th pct
  • Relative xGF%−8.25th pct
  • Penalty diff /60-0.1922nd pct

Usage

Extra / AHL
  • TOI per game10:0711th pct
  • PP time share2.0%15th pct
  • Offensive zone starts31.4%9th pct
  • Quality of competition23.3%17th 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. Riley NashCBJ0.94
  2. Jay BeagleVAN0.94
  3. Byron Froese0.94
  4. Joey Anderson0.94
  5. Cody EakinVGK/BUF0.93
  6. Brad RichardsonARI0.93

Faceoffs

How often Stephens wins the draw over 5 seasons, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 922+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

52.6%

520–468 · #57 of 200 regulars, 72nd percentile

Against an average centre

52.8%

Opponents won 50.1% of their draws; an average centre would have won 49.9% against them.

Wins above average

+27

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

Draws per game

8.0

988 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

53%181 · −0.151%76 · +2.255%139 · +2.243%23 · +0.839%31 · +1.365%26 · +0.453%36 · +0.952%110 · +1.553%366 · +2.3Attacking 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 zone54.0% 116–99
  • Neutral zone51.9% 154–143
  • Defensive zone52.5% 250–226

By strength

  • Even strength54.5% 433–362
  • Power play21.4% 3–11
  • Shorthanded47.2% 84–94

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +7 after a win, −21 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
2019–2035652.5%52.4%
2020–215060.0%58.5%
2021–2225349.0%49.6%
2023–2413555.6%55.7%
2024–2519453.6%54.1%

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.

−2.1 goals above expected

0246820406080100120Game

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

−40−200+20+40+60

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 speed36.3 km/h66th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph4038th pct
  • Hardest shot139.8 km/h58th pct
  • Distance skated65 km27th pct
  • Offensive-zone time36.9%2nd 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

36.3 km/h57th pct

▲ +0.1 km/h since 2023–24

34353637383921–2222–2323–2424–252022–23: no NHL games2021–22: 38.0 km/h, 97th percentile (27 games)2023–24: 36.2 km/h, 60th percentile (23 games)2024–25: 36.3 km/h, 57th percentile (28 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

9.383rd pct

▲ +1.2 since 2023–24

2468101221–2222–2323–2424–252022–23: no NHL games2021–22: 9.9, 86th percentile (27 games)2023–24: 8.1, 78th percentile (23 games)2024–25: 9.3, 83rd percentile (28 games)

Distance skated per 60

15.1 km19th pct

▲ +0.3 km since 2023–24

14.51515.51616.521–2222–2323–2424–252022–23: no NHL games2021–22: 15.0 km, 21st percentile (27 games)2023–24: 14.8 km, 15th percentile (23 games)2024–25: 15.1 km, 19th percentile (28 games)

Hardest shot

139.8 km/h48th pct

▲ +17.8 km/h since 2023–24

11012013014015016021–2222–2323–2424–252022–23: no NHL games2021–22: 136.9 km/h, 23rd percentile (27 games)2023–24: 122.0 km/h, 2nd percentile (23 games)2024–25: 139.8 km/h, 48th percentile (28 games)

Offensive-zone time

36.9%2nd pct

▲ +2.7 points since 2023–24

30%35%40%45%50%21–2222–2323–2424–252022–23: no NHL games2021–22: 35.3%, 0th percentile (27 games)2023–24: 34.3%, 0th percentile (23 games)2024–25: 36.9%, 2nd percentile (28 games)