Compare players, 2019-20 season

At a glance

Eric Staal Sidney Crosby

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

Eric Staal C, FLA		2019-20	Sidney Crosby C, PIT
	66	Games played	41
	19	Goals	16
	28	Assists	31
	47	Points	47
	0.71	Points per game	1.15
	-9	Plus/minus	-8
	113	Shots	109
	16.8	Shooting %	14.7
	24	Hits	28
	28	Penalty minutes	15
	17:08	Average ice time	20:16
Five-on-five, while he was on the ice
	49.0	Corsi for %	53.4
	-1.3	CF% relative to team	+4.1
	48.0	Fenwick for %	53.7
	52.0	Expected goals for %	51.2
	-1.1	xGF% relative to team	+1.0
	49.5	Goals for %	50.0
	100.9	PDO	98.7
	176	Shot attempts taken	115
Expected goals, all situations
	14.1	Expected goals	12.4
	0.75	Expected goals per 60	0.89
	8.4%	Chance per attempt	8.7%
	+3.9	Goals above expected	+3.6
Rating, in goals
	+4.3	Goals above replacement	+6.5
	+0.7	Wins above replacement	+1.1
	+1.7	Even-strength offence	+5.7
	-1.2	Even-strength defence	-3.6
	+0.4	Power play	+1.3
	0.0	Penalty kill	-0.1
	+0.4	Penalties	+1.0
Contract
	$3.25M	Cap hit	$8.7M
	$69K	Cap dollars per point	$185K
	$4.3M	Worth at the going rate	$6.1M
	+$1M	Value: worth minus cap hit	-$2.6M

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