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Defence · #46

Dean Kukan

Age
33
Shoots
Left
Height
188 cm
Weight
86 kg
Born
Volketswil, CHE
Draft
Undrafted

Career · 6 seasons

Games
153
Goals
5
Points
30
TOI per game
15:03
xGF% (5v5)
50.2%
Goals above expected
−1.5

Season by season

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

2015–16CBJ8000+917:2130.0%00.250.9%
After a break: 2017–18CBJ11044+212:22120.0%00.659.1%
2018–19CBJ25055+613:28160.0%00.758.5%
2019–20CBJ33145−915:58512.0%12.154.6%
2020–21CBJ35145−314:11293.4%00.847.4%
2021–22CBJ413811−216:18417.3%02.243.6%
Total1 team15352530+315:031523.3%16.550.2%

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)
00.10.20.30.40.520406080100120140
12m14m16m18m20m20406080100120140Game

Player card

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

48th 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

3rd pair
  • Goals /600.1336th pct
  • Assists /600.6556th pct
  • ixG /600.1741st pct
  • Shots /603.9643rd pct

Play-driving

2nd pair
  • xGF% (5v5)50.2%61st pct
  • CF% (5v5)49.7%56th pct
  • Relative xGF%+1.779th pct
  • xGA /60 (lower is better)2.4545th pct

Usage

3rd pair
  • TOI per game15:0319th pct
  • PP time share9.0%53rd pct
  • PK time share5.4%13th pct
  • Quality of competition23.8%38th 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).

Finishing

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.

−1.5 goals above expected

024620406080100120140Game

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

−20−100+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 speed36.1 km/h85th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph3268th pct
  • Hardest shot144.0 km/h33rd pct
  • Distance skated155 km43rd pct
  • Offensive-zone time39.4%15th 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

36.1 km/h80th pct

2021–22 only

3434.53535.53636.521–222021–22: 36.1 km/h, 80th percentile (41 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

2.983rd pct

2021–22 only

0123421–222021–22: 2.9, 83rd percentile (41 games)

Distance skated per 60

13.9 km67th pct

2021–22 only

1313.213.413.613.81414.221–222021–22: 13.9 km, 67th percentile (41 games)

Hardest shot

144.0 km/h18th pct

2021–22 only

14014515015516021–222021–22: 144.0 km/h, 18th percentile (41 games)

Offensive-zone time

39.4%15th pct

2021–22 only

38%40%42%44%21–222021–22: 39.4%, 15th percentile (41 games)