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Centre · #81

Denis Malgin

Florida Panthers Toronto Maple Leafs Colorado Avalanche(traded during the season)
Age
29
Shoots
Right
Height
175 cm
Weight
83 kg
Born
Olten, CHE
Draft
2015, round 4, #102 (FLA)

Career · 5 seasons

Games
257
Goals
41
Points
81
TOI per game
12:08
xGF% (5v5)
50.3%
Goals above expected
+3.9
ShowAll teamsFlorida PanthersToronto Maple LeafsColorado Avalanche

Season by season

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

2016–17FLA476410−511:14679.0%25.946.9%
2017–18FLA51111122+413:517913.9%67.850.9%
2018–19FLA507916−1012:536610.6%16.147.5%
2019–20FLA364812−612:21478.5%15.846.6%
2019–20TOR8000−310:2130.0%00.450.9%
2019–20All teams444812−911:59508.0%16.247.6%
After a break: 2022–23TOR23224−111:37464.3%04.255.4%
2022–23COL4211617+510:326616.7%16.955.6%
2022–23All teams6513821+410:5511211.6%111.155.5%
Total3 teams257414081−1612:0837411.0%1137.150.3%

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)
00.20.40.60.850100150200250
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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

2nd line

70th 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

2nd line
  • Goals /600.7965th pct
  • Assists /600.7737th pct
  • ixG /600.7149th pct
  • Goals above expected+3.981st pct

Play-driving

1st line
  • xGF% (5v5)50.3%60th pct
  • CF% (5v5)52.1%81st pct
  • Relative xGF%+0.664th pct
  • Penalty diff /600.4888th pct

Usage

3rd line
  • TOI per game12:0833rd pct
  • PP time share16.4%45th pct
  • Offensive zone starts64.0%74th pct
  • Quality of competition24.0%45th 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. Cory ConacherTBL0.84
  2. Alex NylanderBUF0.83
  3. Austin CzarnikBOS/CGY/DET0.79
  4. Nick CousinsPHI/ARI/FLA0.78
  5. Martin KautCOL0.78
  6. Marcus SorensenSJS0.75

Faceoffs

How often Malgin wins the draw over 5 seasons, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 985+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

39.2%

224–347 · below the 985 draws of a regular

Against an average centre

38.8%

Opponents won 49.6% of their draws; an average centre would have won 50.4% against them.

Wins above average

−64

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

Draws per game

4.0

571 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

45%133 · −0.145%66 · +1.434%136 · +0.217%30 · +0.132%34 · −0.260%40 · +0.438%26 · +1.836%33 · +1.836%73 · +1.5Attacking 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 zone37.6% 76–126
  • Neutral zone41.8% 110–153
  • Defensive zone35.8% 38–68

By strength

  • Even strength38.9% 208–327
  • Power play42.9% 12–16
  • Shorthanded50.0% 4–4

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +13 after a win, −7 after a loss. Each win was worth 0.5 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Season by season

SeasonDrawsWin rateAgainst average
2016–1718436.4%35.6%
2017–1812242.6%42.8%
2018–199239.1%38.6%
2019–2016339.9%39.5%
2022–231040.0%42.0%

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.

+3.9 goals above expected

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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 speed37.5 km/h96th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph16190th pct
  • Hardest shot134.6 km/h30th pct
  • Distance skated200 km48th pct
  • Offensive-zone time42.7%58th 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

37.5 km/h94th pct

2022–23 only

343536373822–232022–23: 37.5 km/h, 94th percentile (65 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

13.696th pct

2022–23 only

05101522–232022–23: 13.6, 96th percentile (65 games)

Distance skated per 60

16.9 km99th pct

2022–23 only

141516171822–232022–23: 16.9 km, 99th percentile (65 games)

Hardest shot

134.6 km/h14th pct

2022–23 only

13013514014515015522–232022–23: 134.6 km/h, 14th percentile (65 games)

Offensive-zone time

42.7%59th pct

2022–23 only

38%40%42%44%46%22–232022–23: 42.7%, 59th percentile (65 games)