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Centre · #13 · Rookie

Nate Smith

Arizona Coyotes
Age
27
Shoots
Right
Height
183 cm
Weight
80 kg
Born
Tampa, USA
Draft
2018, round 3, #91 (WPG)

Career · 2021–22 to 2022–23

Games
14
Goals
2
Points
4
TOI per game
12:14
xGF% (5v5)
40.1%
Goals above expected
+0.3

Season by season

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

2021–22ARI10224−114:091414.3%01.642.9%
2022–23ARI4000−17:2720.0%00.121.2%
Total1 team14224−212:141612.5%01.740.1%

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)
0.10.20.30.41010.51111.51212.51313.514
11m12m12m13m13m14m14m15m1010.51111.51212.51313.514Game

Player card

Model-based

How 2021–22 to 2022–23 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

4th line

17th 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 /600.7044th pct
  • Assists /600.7024th pct
  • ixG /600.6019th pct
  • Goals above expected+0.360th pct

Play-driving

Extra / AHL
  • xGF% (5v5)40.1%4th pct
  • CF% (5v5)45.6%20th pct
  • Relative xGF%−3.124th pct
  • Penalty diff /60-0.3512th pct

Usage

3rd line
  • TOI per game12:1430th pct
  • PP time share37.3%63rd pct
  • Offensive zone starts64.0%73rd pct
  • Quality of competition23.9%49th 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). This player is below the threshold, so the percentiles and ratings are for reference only.

Most similar players this season

Needs a regular role to compare.

Faceoffs

How often Smith wins the draw over 2021–22 to 2022–23, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 407+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

40.5%

47–69 · below the 407 draws of a regular

Against an average centre

40.7%

Opponents won 50.2% of their draws; an average centre would have won 49.8% against them.

Wins above average

−11

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

Draws per game

8.3

116 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

20%20 · −0.636%11 · +0.530%30 · +1.675%4 · −2.083%6 · −6.667%3 · −6.967%3 · 0.050%10 · −1.045%29 · +2.6Attacking 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 zone31.7% 13–28
  • Neutral zone44.4% 16–20
  • Defensive zone46.2% 18–21

By strength

  • Even strength40.2% 45–67
  • Power play50.0% 2–2

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +6 after a win, −23 after a loss. Each win was worth 0.6 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Season by season

SeasonDrawsWin rateAgainst average
2021–229639.6%39.6%
2022–232045.0%46.1%

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.

+0.3 goals above expected

00.511.522468101214Game

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

−20−100+10+20+30+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 speed34.1 km/h15th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph613th pct
  • Hardest shot124.3 km/h13th pct
  • Distance skated8 km9th pct
  • Offensive-zone time38.0%8th 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

34.1 km/h4th pct

▼ −1.6 km/h since 2021–22

333435363721–2222–232021–22: 35.6 km/h, 37th percentile (10 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 34.1 km/h, 4th percentile (4 games, too few to rank reliably)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

12.193rd pct

▲ +2.3 since 2021–22

05101521–2222–232021–22: 9.8, 85th percentile (10 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 12.1, 93rd percentile (4 games, too few to rank reliably)

Distance skated per 60

16.0 km80th pct

▼ −0.6 km since 2021–22

14.51515.51616.51721–2222–232021–22: 16.6 km, 94th percentile (10 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 16.0 km, 80th percentile (4 games, too few to rank reliably)

Hardest shot

124.3 km/h2nd pct

▼ −25.8 km/h since 2021–22

12013014015016021–2222–232021–22: 150.2 km/h, 78th percentile (10 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 124.3 km/h, 2nd percentile (4 games, too few to rank reliably)

Offensive-zone time

38.0%9th pct

▼ −0.6 points since 2021–22

36%38%40%42%44%46%21–2222–232021–22: 38.7%, 13th percentile (10 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 38.0%, 9th percentile (4 games, too few to rank reliably)