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Left wing · #56

Hugh McGing

St. Louis Blues
Age
28
Shoots
Left
Height
173 cm
Weight
79 kg
Born
Chicago, USA
Draft
2018, round 5, #138 (STL)

Career · 3 seasons

Games
9
Goals
1
Points
2
TOI per game
9:21
xGF% (5v5)
47.5%
Goals above expected
+0.1

Season by season

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

2022–23STL100009:370–00.071.9%
2023–24STL5000−58:2340.0%00.655.2%
After a break: 2025–26STL3112010:52425.0%00.337.2%
Total1 team9112−59:21812.5%00.947.5%

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)
Game

Player card

Model-based

How 3 seasons compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

4th line

31st 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 /600.7150th pct
  • Assists /600.7128th pct
  • ixG /600.6527th pct
  • Goals above expected+0.161st pct

Play-driving

3rd line
  • xGF% (5v5)47.5%36th pct
  • CF% (5v5)42.0%3rd pct
  • Relative xGF%−2.730th pct
  • Penalty diff /602.85100th pct

Usage

4th line
  • TOI per game9:215th pct
  • PP time share5.4%27th pct
  • Offensive zone starts55.6%51st pct
  • Quality of competition23.7%31st 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.

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.

+0.1 goals above expected

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

−30−20−100+10+20+30+40+50

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 speed35.7 km/h46th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph916th pct
  • Hardest shot126.1 km/h15th pct
  • Distance skated9 km8th pct
  • Offensive-zone time36.0%1st 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

35.7 km/h35th pct

▲ +1.1 km/h since 2023–24

303234363822–2323–2424–2525–262024–25: no NHL games2022–23: 31.2 km/h, 0th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 34.5 km/h, 9th percentile (5 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 35.7 km/h, 35th percentile (3 games, too few to rank reliably)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

16.699th pct

▲ +3.7 since 2023–24

0510152022–2323–2424–2525–262024–25: no NHL games2022–23: 0.0, 0th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 12.9, 94th percentile (5 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 16.6, 99th percentile (3 games, too few to rank reliably)

Distance skated per 60

16.9 km99th pct

▼ −0.5 km since 2023–24

141516171822–2323–2424–2525–262024–25: no NHL games2022–23: 16.7 km, 98th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 17.4 km, 100th percentile (5 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 16.9 km, 99th percentile (3 games, too few to rank reliably)

Hardest shot

126.1 km/h4th pct

▼ −13.8 km/h since 2023–24

8010012014016022–2323–2424–2525–262024–25: no NHL games2022–23: 98.9 km/h, 0th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 139.9 km/h, 40th percentile (5 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 126.1 km/h, 4th percentile (3 games, too few to rank reliably)

Offensive-zone time

36.0%1st pct

▼ −3.3 points since 2023–24

34%36%38%40%42%44%46%22–2323–2424–2525–262024–25: no NHL games2022–23: 41.8%, 49th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 39.3%, 20th percentile (5 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 36.0%, 1st percentile (3 games, too few to rank reliably)