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Centre · #11

Alexander True

San Jose Sharks Seattle Kraken(traded during the season)
Age
29
Shoots
Left
Height
196 cm
Weight
97 kg
Born
Copenhagen, DNK
Draft
Undrafted

Career · 2019–20 to 2021–22

Games
27
Goals
0
Points
5
TOI per game
9:29
xGF% (5v5)
51.0%
Goals above expected
−2.2

Season by season

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

2019–20SJS12044+110:00120.0%01.052.2%
2020–21SJS7011+19:5970.0%00.952.2%
2021–22SEA8000−28:1560.0%00.445.3%
Total2 teams2705509:29250.0%02.251.0%

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)
00.10.20.30.4101214161820222426
9m9m10m10m11m101214161820222426Game

Player card

How 2019–20 to 2021–22 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

4th line

26th 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

4th line
  • Goals /600.001st pct
  • Assists /601.1772nd pct
  • ixG /600.5212th pct
  • Goals above expected−2.235th pct

Play-driving

3rd line
  • xGF% (5v5)51.0%66th pct
  • CF% (5v5)48.2%38th pct
  • Relative xGF%+3.485th pct
  • Penalty diff /60-0.2319th pct

Usage

Extra / AHL
  • TOI per game9:295th pct
  • PP time share3.7%23rd pct
  • Offensive zone starts60.3%61st pct
  • Quality of competition22.6%7th 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).

Faceoffs

How often True wins the draw over 2019–20 to 2021–22, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 512+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

43.1%

62–82 · below the 512 draws of a regular

Against an average centre

43.4%

Opponents won 50.3% of their draws; an average centre would have won 49.7% against them.

Wins above average

−10

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

Draws per game

5.3

144 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

51%41 · −0.757%28 · −1.542%12 · +0.629%7 · +3.533%3 · 0.050%6 · 0.050%4 · 0.032%19 · −1.225%24 · +5.5Attacking 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 zone52.5% 21–19
  • Neutral zone47.5% 29–32
  • Defensive zone27.9% 12–31

By strength

  • Even strength44.9% 62–76
  • Power play0.0% 0–2
  • Shorthanded0.0% 0–4

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +2 after a win, −22 after a loss. Each win was worth 1.1 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Season by season

SeasonDrawsWin rateAgainst average
2019–206946.4%45.7%
2020–214837.5%38.5%
2021–222744.4%46.1%

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.

−2.2 goals above expected

00.511.52510152025Game

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

−40−200+20+40

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/h9th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph818th pct
  • Hardest shot119.2 km/h9th pct
  • Distance skated18 km15th pct
  • Offensive-zone time40.8%34th 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 (8 games, too few to rank reliably)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

7.369th pct

2021–22 only

24681021–222021–22: 7.3, 69th percentile (8 games, too few to rank reliably)

Distance skated per 60

16.2 km83rd pct

2021–22 only

14.51515.51616.521–222021–22: 16.2 km, 83rd percentile (8 games, too few to rank reliably)

Hardest shot

119.2 km/h0th pct

2021–22 only

11012013014015016021–222021–22: 119.2 km/h, 0th percentile (8 games, too few to rank reliably)

Offensive-zone time

40.8%37th pct

2021–22 only

38%40%42%44%46%21–222021–22: 40.8%, 37th percentile (8 games, too few to rank reliably)