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Age
29
Shoots
Left
Height
180 cm
Weight
84 kg
Born
Ottawa, CAN
Draft
2016, round 3, #76 (NSH)

Career · 5 seasons

Games
132
Goals
21
Points
54
TOI per game
13:59
xGF% (5v5)
40.2%
Goals above expected
+2.3

Season by season

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

2018–19NSH100009:430–00.036.9%
After a break: 2020–21NSH10022+311:18110.0%00.953.7%
2021–22MIN206511+19:421346.2%01.649.0%
2021–22MTL4691726−917:175217.3%19.139.5%
2021–22All teams66152237−814:596523.1%110.741.6%
2022–23MTL466915−1512:553020.0%14.935.4%
2023–24CHI9000−715:35130.0%02.244.0%
Total4 teams132213354−2713:5911917.6%218.740.2%

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)
00.20.40.60.8120406080100120
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Player card

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

Overall rating

4th line

26th 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

3rd line
  • Goals /600.6847th pct
  • Assists /601.0767th pct
  • ixG /600.6123rd pct
  • Goals above expected+2.375th pct

Play-driving

Extra / AHL
  • xGF% (5v5)40.2%3rd pct
  • CF% (5v5)42.2%4th pct
  • Relative xGF%−6.86th pct
  • Penalty diff /60-0.3611th pct

Usage

3rd line
  • TOI per game13:5954th pct
  • PP time share25.1%55th pct
  • Offensive zone starts55.5%50th pct
  • Quality of competition24.1%54th 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).

Faceoffs

How often Pitlick wins the draw over 5 seasons, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 954+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

44.1%

98–124 · below the 954 draws of a regular

Against an average centre

44.6%

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

Wins above average

−12

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

Draws per game

3.4

222 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

50%40 · +5.040%58 · −0.237%19 · +1.863%19 · +0.727%15 · −0.475%12 · +1.617%6 · +3.047%36 · +4.529%17 · +3.6Attacking 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 zone39.0% 30–47
  • Neutral zone50.0% 46–46
  • Defensive zone41.5% 22–31

By strength

  • Even strength42.0% 79–109
  • Power play51.6% 16–15
  • Shorthanded100.0% 3–0

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +18 after a win, −9 after a loss. Each win was worth 2.0 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Season by season

SeasonDrawsWin rateAgainst average
2020–213641.7%43.2%
2021–2211844.9%44.9%
2022–235843.1%43.5%
2023–241050.0%51.4%

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.

+2.3 goals above expected

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

−40−200+20+40+60+80

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 speed34.7 km/h23rd pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph1219th pct
  • Hardest shot138.5 km/h45th pct
  • Distance skated36 km20th pct
  • Offensive-zone time43.1%63rd 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

34.7 km/h12th pct

▼ −1.8 km/h since 2022–23

34.53535.53636.53721–2222–2323–242021–22: 36.6 km/h, 73rd percentile (66 games)2022–23: 36.6 km/h, 74th percentile (46 games)2023–24: 34.7 km/h, 12th percentile (9 games, too few to rank reliably)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

5.151st pct

▼ −7.7 since 2022–23

05101521–2222–2323–242021–22: 9.6, 83rd percentile (66 games)2022–23: 12.8, 95th percentile (46 games)2023–24: 5.1, 51st percentile (9 games, too few to rank reliably)

Distance skated per 60

15.4 km42nd pct

▼ −0.6 km since 2022–23

14.51515.51616.521–2222–2323–242021–22: 15.9 km, 70th percentile (66 games)2022–23: 16.0 km, 82nd percentile (46 games)2023–24: 15.4 km, 42nd percentile (9 games, too few to rank reliably)

Hardest shot

138.5 km/h33rd pct

▼ −3.4 km/h since 2022–23

13514014515015521–2222–2323–242021–22: 137.6 km/h, 26th percentile (66 games)2022–23: 141.9 km/h, 45th percentile (46 games)2023–24: 138.5 km/h, 33rd percentile (9 games, too few to rank reliably)

Offensive-zone time

43.1%67th pct

▲ +5.9 points since 2022–23

36%38%40%42%44%46%21–2222–2323–242021–22: 38.1%, 9th percentile (66 games)2022–23: 37.2%, 4th percentile (46 games)2023–24: 43.1%, 67th percentile (9 games, too few to rank reliably)