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Left wing · #47

C.J. Smith

Buffalo Sabres Carolina Hurricanes(traded during the season)
Age
31
Shoots
Left
Height
180 cm
Weight
87 kg
Born
Des Moines, USA
Draft
Undrafted

Career · 4 seasons

Games
14
Goals
2
Points
3
TOI per game
10:35
xGF% (5v5)
44.6%
Goals above expected
+0.5

Season by season

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

2016–17BUF2011−111:3220.0%00.143.2%
After a break: 2018–19BUF11202010:391811.1%01.446.2%
After a break: 2020–21BUF100007:570–00.09.1%
2021–22CAR1000−19:220–00.128.1%
Total2 teams15213−210:302010.0%01.742.4%

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)
0.10.150.20.250.31010.51111.51212.51313.514
10m11m11m12m1010.51111.51212.51313.514Game

Player card

How 4 seasons compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

Extra / AHL

14th 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 /600.7659th pct
  • Assists /600.387th pct
  • ixG /600.6331st pct
  • Goals above expected+0.361st pct

Play-driving

Extra / AHL
  • xGF% (5v5)42.4%8th pct
  • CF% (5v5)47.4%32nd pct
  • Relative xGF%−8.93rd pct
  • Penalty diff /600.0039th pct

Usage

Extra / AHL
  • TOI per game10:3014th pct
  • PP time share1.5%13th pct
  • Offensive zone starts53.5%45th pct
  • Quality of competition23.2%26th 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). This player is below the threshold, so the percentiles and ratings are for reference only.

Most similar players this season

Needs a regular role to compare.

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.

+0.5 goals above expected

00.511.522468101214Game

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

−30−20−100+10+20+30+40+50

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/h10th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph13rd pct
  • Hardest shot125.6 km/h16th pct
  • Distance skated2 km2nd pct
  • Offensive-zone time39.7%22nd 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

33.4 km/h1st pct

2021–22 only

33343536373821–222021–22: 33.4 km/h, 1st percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

6.462nd pct

2021–22 only

24681021–222021–22: 6.4, 62nd percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)

Distance skated per 60

14.2 km3rd pct

2021–22 only

131415161721–222021–22: 14.2 km, 3rd percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)

Hardest shot

125.6 km/h3rd pct

2021–22 only

12013014015016021–222021–22: 125.6 km/h, 3rd percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)

Offensive-zone time

39.7%25th pct

2021–22 only

38%40%42%44%46%21–222021–22: 39.7%, 25th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)