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Centre · #15

Sheldon Dries

Colorado Avalanche Vancouver Canucks Detroit Red Wings(traded during the season)
Age
32
Shoots
Left
Height
178 cm
Weight
83 kg
Born
Macomb, USA
Draft
Undrafted

Career · 7 seasons

Games
128
Goals
16
Points
26
TOI per game
10:12
xGF% (5v5)
44.5%
Goals above expected
−1.0
ShowAll teamsColorado AvalancheVancouver CanucksDetroit Red Wings

Season by season

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

2018–19COL40336−79:04446.8%04.344.1%
2019–20COL5000−26:5220.0%00.216.9%
2020–21COL3000+17:4910.0%00.243.2%
2021–22VAN11213−310:181711.8%11.959.1%
2022–23VAN6311617−911:329411.7%59.744.0%
After a break: 2025–26DET500006:5820.0%00.322.1%
2026–27DET1000−211:1140.0%00.457.2%
Total3 teams128161026−2210:121649.8%617.044.5%

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)
00.10.20.30.40.520406080100120
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Player card

Model-based

How 7 seasons compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

4th line

19th 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 /600.7354th pct
  • Assists /600.469th pct
  • ixG /600.7856th pct
  • Goals above expected−1.052nd pct

Play-driving

Extra / AHL
  • xGF% (5v5)44.5%15th pct
  • CF% (5v5)45.4%16th pct
  • Relative xGF%−6.28th pct
  • Penalty diff /600.0949th pct

Usage

4th line
  • TOI per game10:1212th pct
  • PP time share15.6%45th pct
  • Offensive zone starts54.2%49th pct
  • Quality of competition23.2%17th 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. Max JonesANA0.84
  2. Paul CotterVGK0.78
  3. Jack StudnickaVAN0.78
  4. Zack MacEwenVAN/LAK0.77
  5. Zac Dalpe0.75
  6. Brian BoyleNSH0.74

Faceoffs

How often Dries wins the draw over 7 seasons, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 1141+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

49.4%

322–330 · below the 1141 draws of a regular

Against an average centre

49.5%

Opponents won 50.1% of their draws; an average centre would have won 49.9% against them.

Wins above average

−3

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

Draws per game

6.0

652 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

52%157 · −0.549%143 · +3.143%72 · +1.172%29 · +1.637%19 · +0.844%18 · +2.435%17 · −0.251%94 · +1.049%103 · +3.4Attacking 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 zone47.0% 101–114
  • Neutral zone51.3% 123–117
  • Defensive zone49.7% 98–99

By strength

  • Even strength48.6% 265–280
  • Power play54.3% 38–32
  • Shorthanded51.4% 19–18

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +11 after a win, −17 after a loss. Each win was worth 1.5 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Season by season

SeasonDrawsWin rateAgainst average
2018–1913150.4%50.7%
2019–20666.7%68.9%
2020–2110.0%2.6%
2021–222133.3%32.6%
2022–2347149.9%50.0%
2025–262142.9%41.8%
2026–271100.0%96.6%

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.

−1.0 goals above expected

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

−80−60−40−200+20+40+60+80+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 speed31.9 km/h5th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph00th pct
  • Hardest shot92.5 km/h6th pct
  • Distance skated3 km5th pct
  • Offensive-zone time40.4%37th 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

34.2 km/h5th pct

▼ −1.7 km/h since 2022–23

33343536373821–2222–2323–2424–2525–262023–24: no NHL games2024–25: no NHL games2021–22: 33.8 km/h, 2nd percentile (11 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 35.9 km/h, 45th percentile (63 games)2025–26: 34.2 km/h, 5th percentile (5 games, too few to rank reliably)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

10.388th pct

▲ +3.1 since 2022–23

02468101221–2222–2323–2424–2525–262023–24: no NHL games2024–25: no NHL games2021–22: 2.6, 16th percentile (11 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 7.2, 72nd percentile (63 games)2025–26: 10.3, 88th percentile (5 games, too few to rank reliably)

Distance skated per 60

16.2 km88th pct

▲ +0.3 km since 2022–23

14.51515.51616.521–2222–2323–2424–2525–262023–24: no NHL games2024–25: no NHL games2021–22: 16.1 km, 78th percentile (11 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 15.9 km, 79th percentile (63 games)2025–26: 16.2 km, 88th percentile (5 games, too few to rank reliably)

Hardest shot

115.9 km/h1st pct

▼ −21.3 km/h since 2022–23

11012013014015016021–2222–2323–2424–2525–262023–24: no NHL games2024–25: no NHL games2021–22: 134.4 km/h, 15th percentile (11 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 137.3 km/h, 23rd percentile (63 games)2025–26: 115.9 km/h, 1st percentile (5 games, too few to rank reliably)

Offensive-zone time

36.9%2nd pct

▼ −4.3 points since 2022–23

36%38%40%42%44%46%21–2222–2323–2424–2525–262023–24: no NHL games2024–25: no NHL games2021–22: 42.0%, 53rd percentile (11 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 41.2%, 42nd percentile (63 games)2025–26: 36.9%, 2nd percentile (5 games, too few to rank reliably)