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Centre · #46

Blake Lizotte

Los Angeles Kings Pittsburgh Penguins(traded during the season)
Age
28
Shoots
Left
Height
175 cm
Weight
80 kg
Born
Lindstrom, USA
Draft
Undrafted

Career · 2018–19 to 2026–27

Games
439
Goals
55
Points
146
TOI per game
12:52
xGF% (5v5)
52.0%
Goals above expected
−6.8

Season by season

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

2018–19LAK1000−111:1210.0%00.260.8%
2019–20LAK6561723−413:58876.9%310.555.2%
2020–21LAK413710+212:42427.1%05.347.7%
2021–22LAK70101424+1512:109111.0%09.953.2%
2022–23LAK81112334+1112:5710810.2%012.254.2%
2023–24LAK627815+1111:49769.2%07.851.2%
2024–25PIT5911920−412:435121.6%17.543.7%
2025–26PIT5571219+613:524914.3%07.553.2%
2026–27PIT5011012:5580.0%01.071.6%
Total2 teams4395591146+3612:5251310.7%461.852.0%

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)
00.20.40.60.81100200300400
8m10m12m14m16m100200300400Game

Player card

How 2018–19 to 2026–27 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

3rd line

52nd 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 /600.5836th pct
  • Assists /600.9758th pct
  • ixG /600.6636th pct
  • Goals above expected−6.822nd pct

Play-driving

1st line
  • xGF% (5v5)52.0%79th pct
  • CF% (5v5)53.3%89th pct
  • Relative xGF%−0.258th pct
  • Penalty diff /600.1559th pct

Usage

4th line
  • TOI per game12:5245th pct
  • PP time share5.0%30th pct
  • Offensive zone starts35.9%15th pct
  • Quality of competition23.6%30th 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 Lizotte wins the draw over 2018–19 to 2026–27, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 1551+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

50.2%

1832–1821 · #92 of 195 regulars, 53rd percentile

Against an average centre

49.9%

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

Wins above average

−2

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

Draws per game

8.4

3,653 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

53%818 · +0.251%612 · +2.242%333 · +2.252%107 · +0.742%78 · +0.158%178 · +0.344%95 · +0.452%777 · +2.147%655 · +1.4Attacking 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 zone48.1% 455–490
  • Neutral zone52.1% 665–611
  • Defensive zone49.7% 712–720

By strength

  • Even strength51.4% 1604–1514
  • Power play48.1% 39–42
  • Shorthanded41.6% 189–265

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +14 after a win, −17 after a loss. Each win was worth 1.3 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Season by season

SeasonDrawsWin rateAgainst average
2018–19850.0%52.3%
2019–2062250.2%49.8%
2020–2135450.8%50.6%
2021–2260751.6%51.2%
2022–2380751.2%50.6%
2023–2436546.8%46.1%
2024–2534751.0%51.7%
2025–2647650.0%50.4%
2026–276735.8%37.5%

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.

−6.8 goals above expected

0204060100200300400Game

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

−500+50+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 speed35.0 km/h74th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph986th pct
  • Hardest shot113.5 km/h28th pct
  • Distance skated11 km40th pct
  • Offensive-zone time39.3%32nd 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

35.9 km/h43rd pct

▼ −0.3 km/h since 2024–25

3535.53636.53737.521–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 36.8 km/h, 78th percentile (70 games)2022–23: 36.3 km/h, 62nd percentile (81 games)2023–24: 35.7 km/h, 40th percentile (62 games)2024–25: 36.2 km/h, 50th percentile (59 games)2025–26: 35.9 km/h, 43rd percentile (55 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

8.277th pct

▲ +0.7 since 2024–25

2468101221–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 9.8, 85th percentile (70 games)2022–23: 6.0, 60th percentile (81 games)2023–24: 7.0, 69th percentile (62 games)2024–25: 7.5, 71st percentile (59 games)2025–26: 8.2, 77th percentile (55 games)

Distance skated per 60

15.7 km58th pct

▼ −0.3 km since 2024–25

14.51515.51616.521–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 15.4 km, 40th percentile (70 games)2022–23: 15.3 km, 44th percentile (81 games)2023–24: 15.5 km, 46th percentile (62 games)2024–25: 15.9 km, 69th percentile (59 games)2025–26: 15.7 km, 58th percentile (55 games)

Hardest shot

136.4 km/h39th pct

▲ +12.4 km/h since 2024–25

12013014015016021–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 137.3 km/h, 25th percentile (70 games)2022–23: 132.0 km/h, 9th percentile (81 games)2023–24: 131.9 km/h, 11th percentile (62 games)2024–25: 124.0 km/h, 2nd percentile (59 games)2025–26: 136.4 km/h, 39th percentile (55 games)

Offensive-zone time

39.2%15th pct

▼ −0.5 points since 2024–25

38%40%42%44%46%21–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 41.6%, 48th percentile (70 games)2022–23: 40.7%, 35th percentile (81 games)2023–24: 39.7%, 25th percentile (62 games)2024–25: 39.7%, 20th percentile (59 games)2025–26: 39.2%, 15th percentile (55 games)