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Defence · #2 · Rookie

Robin Salo

Age
27
Shoots
Left
Height
185 cm
Weight
87 kg
Born
Espoo, FIN
Draft
2017, round 2, #46 (NYI)

Career · 2021–22 to 2022–23

Games
32
Goals
3
Points
9
TOI per game
14:48
xGF% (5v5)
43.3%
Goals above expected
+1.9

Season by season

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

2021–22NYI21145−616:41244.2%20.842.7%
2022–23NYI11224+111:11922.2%00.344.8%
Total1 team32369−514:48339.1%21.143.3%

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)
00.10.20.30.41015202530
10m12m14m16m18m1015202530Game

Player card

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

12th 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

2nd pair
  • Goals /600.3888th pct
  • Assists /600.7659th pct
  • ixG /600.1419th pct
  • Shots /604.1851st pct

Play-driving

Extra / AHL
  • xGF% (5v5)43.3%10th pct
  • CF% (5v5)43.0%4th pct
  • Relative xGF%−7.32nd pct
  • xGA /60 (lower is better)2.7328th pct

Usage

3rd pair
  • TOI per game14:4817th pct
  • PP time share25.0%74th pct
  • PK time share0.8%1st pct
  • Quality of competition23.4%21st 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.

+1.9 goals above expected

012351015202530Game

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

−15−10−50+5+10+15+20+25

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 speed31.3 km/h3rd pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph00th pct
  • Hardest shot142.7 km/h33rd pct
  • Distance skated27 km15th pct
  • Offensive-zone time41.7%52nd 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

31.3 km/h0th pct

▼ −1.7 km/h since 2021–22

303234363821–2222–232021–22: 33.0 km/h, 5th percentile (21 games)2022–23: 31.3 km/h, 0th percentile (11 games, too few to rank reliably)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

0.00th pct

▼ −0.5 since 2021–22

012321–2222–232021–22: 0.5, 13th percentile (21 games)2022–23: 0.0, 0th percentile (11 games, too few to rank reliably)

Distance skated per 60

13.4 km38th pct

▼ −0.1 km since 2021–22

1313.213.413.613.81414.221–2222–232021–22: 13.5 km, 37th percentile (21 games)2022–23: 13.4 km, 38th percentile (11 games, too few to rank reliably)

Hardest shot

142.7 km/h17th pct

▲ +3.2 km/h since 2021–22

13514014515015516021–2222–232021–22: 139.4 km/h, 5th percentile (21 games)2022–23: 142.7 km/h, 17th percentile (11 games, too few to rank reliably)

Offensive-zone time

41.7%52nd pct

▲ +1.4 points since 2021–22

39%40%41%42%43%44%21–2222–232021–22: 40.4%, 31st percentile (21 games)2022–23: 41.7%, 52nd percentile (11 games, too few to rank reliably)