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Right wing · #19

Drake Batherson

Ottawa Senators
Age
28
Shoots
Right
Height
191 cm
Weight
95 kg
Born
Fort Wayne, USA
Draft
2017, round 4, #121 (OTT)

Career · 2018–19 to 2026–27

Games
473
Goals
151
Points
367
TOI per game
17:38
xGF% (5v5)
51.0%
Goals above expected
+13.1

Season by season

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

2018–19OTT20369−213:251816.7%32.042.2%
2019–20OTT233710−1215:34329.4%63.046.0%
2020–21OTT56171734−1716:2811115.3%1514.150.0%
2021–22OTT46172744+418:5611015.5%1413.150.0%
2022–23OTT82224062−3518:362498.8%2932.452.2%
2023–24OTT82283866−918:1019614.3%2223.548.5%
2024–25OTT82264268−918:0919213.5%3123.550.6%
2025–26OTT79333871−717:2116719.8%3025.557.6%
2026–27OTT3213+116:47633.3%10.848.9%
Total1 team473151216367−8617:381,08114.0%151137.951.0%

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)
00.511.5100200300400
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Player card

Model-based

How 2018–19 to 2026–27 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

1st line

92nd 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

1st line
  • Goals /601.0988th pct
  • Assists /601.5591st pct
  • ixG /600.9985th pct
  • Goals above expected+13.190th pct

Play-driving

2nd line
  • xGF% (5v5)51.0%73rd pct
  • CF% (5v5)50.1%66th pct
  • Relative xGF%+1.576th pct
  • Penalty diff /600.1560th pct

Usage

1st line
  • TOI per game17:3888th pct
  • PP time share58.4%91st pct
  • Offensive zone starts74.6%96th pct
  • Quality of competition24.8%80th 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).

Most similar players this season

  1. Sidney CrosbyPIT0.95
  2. Evgeni MalkinPIT0.95
  3. Mikko RantanenCOL/DAL0.95
  4. Pierre-Luc DuboisCBJ/WPG/LAK/WSH0.95
  5. Travis KonecnyPHI0.94
  6. Brayden PointTBL0.94

Faceoffs

How often Batherson wins the draw over 2018–19 to 2026–27, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 1549+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

43.1%

107–141 · below the 1549 draws of a regular

Against an average centre

43.5%

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

Wins above average

−16

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

Draws per game

1.7

248 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

83%12 · +0.250%24 · −0.634%140 · +1.150%4 · +0.539%23 · +1.567%3 · +0.569%13 · +2.833%9 · +5.560%20 · +2.1Attacking 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 zone36.6% 60–104
  • Neutral zone58.2% 32–23
  • Defensive zone51.7% 15–14

By strength

  • Even strength42.0% 95–131
  • Power play52.4% 11–10
  • Shorthanded100.0% 1–0

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +26 after a win, −6 after a loss. Each win was worth 1.0 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Season by season

SeasonDrawsWin rateAgainst average
2018–19475.0%80.5%
2019–20757.1%55.9%
2020–211338.5%37.8%
2021–224341.9%42.7%
2022–233834.2%33.7%
2023–249340.9%41.3%
2024–252450.0%50.4%
2025–262458.3%59.2%
2026–2720.0%-0.5%

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.

+13.1 goals above expected

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

−500+50+100

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 speed34.3 km/h53rd pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph223rd pct
  • Hardest shot134.3 km/h79th pct
  • Distance skated13 km60th pct
  • Offensive-zone time49.2%94th 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

35.6 km/h32nd pct

▼ −0.8 km/h since 2024–25

343536373821–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 34.8 km/h, 14th percentile (46 games)2022–23: 36.1 km/h, 54th percentile (82 games)2023–24: 36.4 km/h, 69th percentile (82 games)2024–25: 36.4 km/h, 61st percentile (82 games)2025–26: 35.6 km/h, 32nd percentile (79 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

6.157th pct

▼ −1.1 since 2024–25

24681021–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 4.2, 38th percentile (46 games)2022–23: 4.4, 44th percentile (82 games)2023–24: 7.6, 74th percentile (82 games)2024–25: 7.1, 67th percentile (82 games)2025–26: 6.1, 57th percentile (79 games)

Distance skated per 60

15.5 km47th pct

▼ −0.1 km since 2024–25

14.51515.51616.521–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 15.8 km, 64th percentile (46 games)2022–23: 15.8 km, 74th percentile (82 games)2023–24: 15.7 km, 58th percentile (82 games)2024–25: 15.6 km, 49th percentile (82 games)2025–26: 15.5 km, 47th percentile (79 games)

Hardest shot

145.8 km/h83rd pct

▼ −6.4 km/h since 2024–25

13014015016021–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 155.1 km/h, 93rd percentile (46 games)2022–23: 143.1 km/h, 52nd percentile (82 games)2023–24: 143.9 km/h, 59th percentile (82 games)2024–25: 152.3 km/h, 94th percentile (82 games)2025–26: 145.8 km/h, 83rd percentile (79 games)

Offensive-zone time

48.3%99th pct

▲ +3.4 points since 2024–25

38%40%42%44%46%48%50%21–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 42.8%, 64th percentile (46 games)2022–23: 45.1%, 84th percentile (82 games)2023–24: 43.1%, 68th percentile (82 games)2024–25: 44.9%, 87th percentile (82 games)2025–26: 48.3%, 99th percentile (79 games)