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Left wing · #86

Joel Farabee

Philadelphia Flyers Calgary Flames(traded during the season)
Age
26
Shoots
Left
Height
183 cm
Weight
84 kg
Born
Syracuse, USA
Draft
2018, round 1, #14 (PHI)

Career · 2019–20 to 2026–27

Games
501
Goals
113
Points
248
TOI per game
16:11
xGF% (5v5)
48.4%
Goals above expected
+6.2

Season by season

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

2019–20PHI5281321+614:06819.9%211.249.1%
2020–21PHI55201838016:0112216.4%714.551.0%
2021–22PHI63171734−1117:3511914.3%313.845.0%
2022–23PHI82152439−117:0114510.3%213.844.9%
2023–24PHI82222850−1316:1118212.1%718.652.0%
2024–25PHI5081119−1215:12998.1%312.651.0%
2024–25CGY31336−514:26525.8%15.347.5%
2024–25All teams81111425−1714:551517.3%417.949.7%
2025–26CGY82201838−916:5514214.1%316.247.7%
2026–27CGY4033−416:2580.0%20.859.8%
Total2 teams501113135248−4916:1195011.9%30106.848.4%

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)
00.511.5100200300400500
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Player card

How 2019–20 to 2026–27 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

2nd line

72nd 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

2nd line
  • Goals /600.8466th pct
  • Assists /601.0060th pct
  • ixG /600.7959th pct
  • Goals above expected+6.283rd pct

Play-driving

3rd line
  • xGF% (5v5)48.4%46th pct
  • CF% (5v5)48.9%53rd pct
  • Relative xGF%−0.851st pct
  • Penalty diff /600.1661st pct

Usage

2nd line
  • TOI per game16:1177th pct
  • PP time share36.3%71st pct
  • Offensive zone starts59.7%64th pct
  • Quality of competition24.7%77th 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 Farabee wins the draw over 2019–20 to 2026–27, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 1344+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

35.3%

144–264 · below the 1344 draws of a regular

Against an average centre

35.8%

Opponents won 50.5% of their draws; an average centre would have won 49.5% against them.

Wins above average

−58

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

Draws per game

1.9

408 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

33%45 · +0.639%172 · +2.536%64 · +1.332%19 · +0.519%16 · +1.441%22 · +0.136%22 · +7.323%26 · −0.832%22 · +6.7Attacking 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 zone38.1% 90–146
  • Neutral zone33.1% 41–83
  • Defensive zone27.1% 13–35

By strength

  • Even strength33.1% 107–216
  • Power play47.5% 28–31
  • Shorthanded34.6% 9–17

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +28 after a win, −5 after a loss. Each win was worth 2.2 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Season by season

SeasonDrawsWin rateAgainst average
2019–201030.0%28.0%
2020–211540.0%40.2%
2021–2214328.7%29.1%
2022–234535.6%37.4%
2023–248037.5%38.7%
2024–254936.7%34.9%
2025–265945.8%46.6%
2026–27742.9%44.4%

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.

+6.2 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 speed34.7 km/h66th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph336th pct
  • Hardest shot124.3 km/h52nd pct
  • Distance skated12 km56th pct
  • Offensive-zone time47.5%87th 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

35.8 km/h39th pct

▲ +0.7 km/h since 2024–25

343536373821–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 34.7 km/h, 11th percentile (63 games)2022–23: 34.7 km/h, 11th percentile (82 games)2023–24: 35.8 km/h, 43rd percentile (82 games)2024–25: 35.1 km/h, 18th percentile (81 games)2025–26: 35.8 km/h, 39th percentile (82 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

3.223rd pct

▼ −0.7 since 2024–25

24681021–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 4.5, 42nd percentile (63 games)2022–23: 3.1, 26th percentile (82 games)2023–24: 3.8, 34th percentile (82 games)2024–25: 3.9, 32nd percentile (81 games)2025–26: 3.2, 23rd percentile (82 games)

Distance skated per 60

15.0 km18th pct

▼ −0.5 km since 2024–25

14.51515.51616.521–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 15.7 km, 55th percentile (63 games)2022–23: 15.4 km, 51st percentile (82 games)2023–24: 15.5 km, 46th percentile (82 games)2024–25: 15.5 km, 41st percentile (81 games)2025–26: 15.0 km, 18th percentile (82 games)

Hardest shot

134.8 km/h30th pct

▲ +4.0 km/h since 2024–25

12013014015016021–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 146.5 km/h, 62nd percentile (63 games)2022–23: 136.6 km/h, 19th percentile (82 games)2023–24: 142.7 km/h, 52nd percentile (82 games)2024–25: 130.8 km/h, 12th percentile (81 games)2025–26: 134.8 km/h, 30th percentile (82 games)

Offensive-zone time

40.2%26th pct

▼ −1.5 points since 2024–25

38%40%42%44%46%21–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 42.3%, 58th percentile (63 games)2022–23: 40.8%, 37th percentile (82 games)2023–24: 44.3%, 78th percentile (82 games)2024–25: 41.7%, 47th percentile (81 games)2025–26: 40.2%, 26th percentile (82 games)