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Centre · #52 · Rookie

Zach Dean

Age
23
Shoots
Left
Height
183 cm
Weight
85 kg
Born
Grande Prairie, CAN
Draft
2021, round 1, #30 (VGK)

Career · 2 seasons

Games
10
Goals
0
Points
0
TOI per game
10:46
xGF% (5v5)
26.5%
Goals above expected
−1.1

Season by season

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

2023–24STL9000−410:33100.0%01.128.0%
After a break: 2026–27STL1000−212:370–00.017.3%
Total1 team10000−610:46100.0%01.126.5%

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)
00.020.040.060.080.10.1210
10m11m11m12m10Game

Player card

How 2 seasons compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

Extra / AHL

0th 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 /600.001st pct
  • Assists /600.000th pct
  • ixG /600.6326th pct
  • Goals above expected−1.142nd pct

Play-driving

Extra / AHL
  • xGF% (5v5)26.5%0th pct
  • CF% (5v5)35.2%0th pct
  • Relative xGF%−21.30th pct
  • Penalty diff /60-1.120th pct

Usage

Extra / AHL
  • TOI per game10:4611th pct
  • PP time share2.1%18th pct
  • Offensive zone starts81.0%99th pct
  • Quality of competition22.9%3rd 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

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.

−1.1 goals above expected

00.20.40.60.811.2246810Game

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

−15−10−50+5+10+15+20+25

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 speed34.3 km/h53rd pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph223rd pct
  • Hardest shot–
  • Distance skated4 km7th pct
  • Offensive-zone time40.9%45th 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

34.8 km/h12th pct

2023–24 only

34.53535.53636.53723–242023–24: 34.8 km/h, 12th percentile (9 games, too few to rank reliably)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

6.969th pct

2023–24 only

24681023–242023–24: 6.9, 69th percentile (9 games, too few to rank reliably)

Distance skated per 60

16.4 km90th pct

2023–24 only

1515.51616.51723–242023–24: 16.4 km, 90th percentile (9 games, too few to rank reliably)

Hardest shot

130.3 km/h8th pct

2023–24 only

12513013514014515023–242023–24: 130.3 km/h, 8th percentile (9 games, too few to rank reliably)

Offensive-zone time

37.3%5th pct

2023–24 only

36%38%40%42%44%46%23–242023–24: 37.3%, 5th percentile (9 games, too few to rank reliably)