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Left wing · #57 · Rookie

James Hamblin

Edmonton Oilers
Age
27
Shoots
Left
Height
178 cm
Weight
83 kg
Born
Edmonton, CAN
Draft
Undrafted

Career · 2022–23 to 2023–24

Games
41
Goals
2
Points
3
TOI per game
8:09
xGF% (5v5)
49.5%
Goals above expected
−2.1

Season by season

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

2022–23EDM10000−38:52120.0%01.146.3%
2023–24EDM31213+37:551811.1%03.050.6%
Total1 team4121308:09306.7%04.149.5%

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)
00.10.20.310152025303540
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Player card

Model-based

How 2022–23 to 2023–24 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 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

Extra / AHL
  • Goals /600.368th pct
  • Assists /600.181st pct
  • ixG /600.7442nd pct
  • Goals above expected−2.138th pct

Play-driving

4th line
  • xGF% (5v5)49.5%50th pct
  • CF% (5v5)48.4%42nd pct
  • Relative xGF%−8.25th pct
  • Penalty diff /600.1862nd pct

Usage

Extra / AHL
  • TOI per game8:091st pct
  • PP time share1.3%10th pct
  • Offensive zone starts60.6%63rd pct
  • Quality of competition23.4%12th 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. Austin Czarnik0.88
  2. Ben Meyers0.88
  3. Colin WhiteFLA0.86
  4. Alex Turcotte0.84
  5. Rasmus Kupari0.78
  6. Jaret Anderson-Dolan0.78

Faceoffs

How often Hamblin wins the draw over 2022–23 to 2023–24, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 410+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

53.5%

108–94 · below the 410 draws of a regular

Against an average centre

53.1%

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

Wins above average

+6

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

Draws per game

5.3

202 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

56%52 · +1.069%35 · +5.045%20 · −0.645%11 · +5.460%10 · +2.750%4 · 0.050%4 · 0.048%25 · +2.046%41 · −0.2Attacking 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 zone60.0% 33–22
  • Neutral zone54.3% 44–37
  • Defensive zone47.0% 31–35

By strength

  • Even strength52.8% 105–94
  • Power play100.0% 1–0
  • Shorthanded100.0% 2–0

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +10 after a win, −26 after a loss. Each win was worth 1.8 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Season by season

SeasonDrawsWin rateAgainst average
2022–234264.3%62.7%
2023–2416050.6%50.5%

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.

−2.1 goals above expected

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

−20−100+10+20+30

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 speed36.9 km/h84th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph4645th pct
  • Hardest shot128.8 km/h19th pct
  • Distance skated68 km26th pct
  • Offensive-zone time41.1%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

36.9 km/h82nd pct

▲ +2.3 km/h since 2022–23

343536373822–2323–242022–23: 34.5 km/h, 8th percentile (10 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 36.9 km/h, 82nd percentile (31 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

11.290th pct

▲ +1.1 since 2022–23

246810121422–2323–242022–23: 10.2, 88th percentile (10 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 11.2, 90th percentile (31 games)

Distance skated per 60

16.6 km93rd pct

▼ −0.0 km since 2022–23

14.51515.51616.51722–2323–242022–23: 16.6 km, 97th percentile (10 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 16.6 km, 93rd percentile (31 games)

Hardest shot

128.8 km/h6th pct

▲ +21.0 km/h since 2022–23

10012014016022–2323–242022–23: 107.8 km/h, 0th percentile (10 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 128.8 km/h, 6th percentile (31 games)

Offensive-zone time

41.1%41st pct

▲ +0.2 points since 2022–23

38%40%42%44%46%22–2323–242022–23: 40.9%, 37th percentile (10 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 41.1%, 41st percentile (31 games)