Compare players, 2011-12 season

At a glance

Joe Thornton Patrik Elias

On the radar, each spoke runs from the lowest at the centre to the league leader at the rim, among the regulars at his position: forwards against forwards, defencemen against defencemen. The gap between two players on a spoke is the real gap between their numbers. The dashed shape is the typical player. Hover over a dot for the number. The lines are each player's points adding up, game by game.

Where they shot from

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The numbers

Joe Thornton C, FLA		2011-12	Patrik Elias C, NJD
	82	Games played	81
	18	Goals	26
	59	Assists	52
	77	Points	78
	0.94	Points per game	0.96
	17	Plus/minus	-8
	156	Shots	164
	11.5	Shooting %	15.9
	42	Hits	61
	31	Penalty minutes	16
	20:28	Average ice time	19:51
Five-on-five, while he was on the ice
	55.7	Corsi for %	52.4
	+5.6	CF% relative to team	+2.9
	56.0	Fenwick for %	52.7
	58.3	Expected goals for %	52.1
	+5.3	xGF% relative to team	+1.2
	60.7	Goals for %	53.8
	101.4	PDO	100.7
	178	Shot attempts taken	189
Expected goals, all situations
	18.1	Expected goals	17.3
	0.65	Expected goals per 60	0.64
	8.7%	Chance per attempt	8.1%
	-1.1	Goals above expected	+7.7
Rating, in goals
	+16.2	Goals above replacement	+11.7
	+2.7	Wins above replacement	+1.9
	+5.3	Even-strength offence	+3.7
	+1.8	Even-strength defence	-0.5
	+1.5	Power play	+2.3
	-0.1	Penalty kill	+0.6
	+3.0	Penalties	+1.1
Contract
	$7M	Cap hit	$6M
	$91K	Cap dollars per point	$77K
	$7.8M	Worth at the going rate	$5.8M
	+$828K	Value: worth minus cap hit	-$222K

The better value in each stat is highlighted. Stats where more is not clearly better, such as games played, are not judged. Bars show each value against the larger of the two. What the advanced numbers mean