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Defence · #25

Libor Hajek

Age
28
Shoots
Left
Height
191 cm
Weight
95 kg
Born
Smrcek, CZE
Draft
2016, round 2, #37 (TBL)

Career · 2018–19 to 2022–23

Games
110
Goals
4
Points
12
TOI per game
14:53
xGF% (5v5)
41.8%
Goals above expected
+0.7

Season by season

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

2018–19NYR5101+116:321010.0%00.361.2%
2019–20NYR28055−415:59230.0%00.939.7%
2020–21NYR44224+215:16336.1%01.440.6%
2021–22NYR17011−1013:08120.0%00.340.3%
2022–23NYR16101+213:16137.7%00.343.8%
Total1 team1104812−914:53914.4%03.341.8%

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)
00.10.20.320406080100
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Player card

How 2018–19 to 2022–23 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

Extra / AHL

1st 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

Extra / AHL
  • Goals /600.1540th pct
  • Assists /600.296th pct
  • ixG /600.1211th pct
  • Shots /603.3323rd pct

Play-driving

Extra / AHL
  • xGF% (5v5)41.8%4th pct
  • CF% (5v5)39.5%1st pct
  • Relative xGF%−6.53rd pct
  • xGA /60 (lower is better)2.8511th pct

Usage

Extra / AHL
  • TOI per game14:5319th pct
  • PP time share2.2%33rd pct
  • PK time share11.2%22nd pct
  • Quality of competition23.5%18th 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.

+0.7 goals above expected

0123420406080100Game

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 speed33.4 km/h21st pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph318th pct
  • Hardest shot147.4 km/h48th pct
  • Distance skated48 km25th pct
  • Offensive-zone time41.3%44th 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

33.4 km/h5th pct

▲ +0.2 km/h since 2021–22

32333435363721–2222–232021–22: 33.2 km/h, 6th percentile (17 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 33.4 km/h, 5th percentile (16 games, too few to rank reliably)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

0.823rd pct

▼ −1.3 since 2021–22

0.511.522.5321–2222–232021–22: 2.2, 69th percentile (17 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 0.8, 23rd percentile (16 games, too few to rank reliably)

Distance skated per 60

13.7 km62nd pct

▼ −0.9 km since 2021–22

12.51313.51414.51521–2222–232021–22: 14.6 km, 98th percentile (17 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 13.7 km, 62nd percentile (16 games, too few to rank reliably)

Hardest shot

147.4 km/h34th pct

▲ +10.4 km/h since 2021–22

13014015016021–2222–232021–22: 137.0 km/h, 3rd percentile (17 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 147.4 km/h, 34th percentile (16 games, too few to rank reliably)

Offensive-zone time

41.3%45th pct

▲ +0.3 points since 2021–22

39%40%41%42%43%44%21–2222–232021–22: 41.0%, 44th percentile (17 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 41.3%, 45th percentile (16 games, too few to rank reliably)