Defence · #4

Casey Fitzgerald

Buffalo Sabres

Florida Panthers(traded during the season)

Age: 29
Shoots: Right
Height: 180 cm
Weight: 85 kg
Born: North Reading, USA
Draft: 2016, round 3, #86 (BUF)

Career · 2021–22 to 2022–23

Games: 63
Goals: 0
Points: 9
TOI per game: 14:45
xGF% (5v5): 46.0%
Goals above expected: −2.0

ShowAll teams Buffalo Sabres Florida Panthers

Season by season

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


2021–22	BUF	36	6	6	−19	16:53	41	0.0%	1.4	46.7%
2022–23	BUF	23	3	3	−1	13:03	12	0.0%	0.6	45.5%
2022–23	FLA	4	0	0	−1	5:23	1	0.0%	0.0	33.3%
2022–23	All teams	27	3	3	−2	11:55	13	0.0%	0.6	44.7%
Total	2 teams	63	9	9	−21	14:45	54	0.0%	2.0	46.0%

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)

Player card

Model-based

How 2021–22 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

9th percentile among qualified defencemen, blending scoring 30%, play-driving 50%, usage 20%.

1st pair
2nd pair
3rd pair
Extra / AHL

Scoring

Extra / AHL

Goals /600.004th pct
Assists /600.5833rd pct
ixG /600.1315th pct
Shots /603.4930th pct

Play-driving

3rd pair

xGF% (5v5)46.0%25th pct
CF% (5v5)48.5%42nd pct
Relative xGF%−4.311th pct
xGA /60 (lower is better)2.6933rd pct

Usage

Extra / AHL

TOI per game14:4517th pct
PP time share0.7%14th pct
PK time share28.0%50th pct
Quality of competition23.3%14th 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).

Most similar players this season

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.

−2.0 goals above expected

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

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 speed34.9 km/h54th pct
Speed bursts over 20 mph729th pct
Hardest shot143.9 km/h37th pct
Distance skated72 km31st pct
Offensive-zone time41.1%39th 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

34.9 km/h39th pct

▲ +1.3 km/h since 2021–22

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

1.347th pct

▲ +0.3 since 2021–22

Distance skated per 60

13.5 km50th pct

▼ −0.5 km since 2021–22

Hardest shot

143.9 km/h21st pct

▼ −0.1 km/h since 2021–22

Offensive-zone time

41.1%39th pct

▲ +2.9 points since 2021–22