Final repost of my analytical wishlist for the 2025–26 season. Updating monthly.
• From bottom-3 defensive team to bottom-10 defensive team on 5v5.
• From bottom-5 PP chance creators to avg.
• From bottom-7 PK chance reductors to avg-ish.
• Less penalties taken.
#GoHabsGo
Not overly impressed by Aatos Koivu's card this year.
A lot of shooting, not so much of good looks. Decent passing accuracy, but not too many passes. Not too engaged and struggling in constests. 2nd-worst raw Corsi share among TPS forwards with at least 30 gp. #GoHabsGo#HCTPS
Šmits also had some nice micros/advanced stats in a hard role.
Especially when you take into account that his team had a 41% Corsi share at even strength, so his own raw 5v5 CF% of 44% looks bad relative to league (shown here), but not relative to team. #Liiga#Jukurit
Alberts Smits is a defenseman whose draft-year scoring rate in Liiga was higher than Juraj Slafkovsky’s.
He would be a pretty solid selection pretty much anywhere in the draft.
https://t.co/8Myty478gA
Seemingly Brendan Gallagher's career as a #GoHabsGo is coming to an end.😥
One of the most underrated offensive playdrivers of his generation is SECOND all time (since 07–08) in career individual xGoals per 60 at 5v5 and t-64th in actual goals at 5v5 among players with 200 gp.
@CabernetFrk This is of course exaggeration, but the results in the last 3 games all over team are statistically so bad, that going with something ridiculous like Xhekaj–Engström Struble–Reinbacher / Del Gaizo–Clurman shouldn't even be making the stats much worse.
If we're being honest, every #GoHabsGo defender is getting eaten alive by the Hurricanes, just in different styles.
And the potential replacement guy (Xhekaj) had 27% Corsi share, 22% shot share, 36% xGoal share and 25% chance share in his 2 regular season games vs. the Canes.
@ShutdownLine It felt like the Guhle–Carrier pairing spent the whole game 3 putting out dumpster fires in their own end and didn't have any exits with possession.
@MTLhockeynow Not quality-wise.
Matheson, for example, has worse xGF%, Dobson has similar to Carrier, and both of them have worse xGA/60 than him.
And no player is even close to Carrier in D-zone starts. Matheson is 2nd and has 15 fewer than him.
72's minutes aren't comparable in any way.
@paqdaddy@the_habitant "Barely did anything" might be a reach, as he led the team in all situations ixG, had 3 primary assists and did a lot of other important stuff as well.
https://t.co/Q96vraG6Ca
Individual stats, it's the Mitch Marner series. Leads VGK players in chance production at 5v5 and he has dominated on special teams. Also their best player on entries & exits.