Compare players, 2017-18 season

At a glance

Paul Stastny Nico Hischier

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

Paul Stastny C, CAR		2017-18	Nico Hischier C, NJD
	82	Games played	82
	16	Goals	20
	37	Assists	32
	53	Points	52
	0.65	Points per game	0.63
	1	Plus/minus	10
	159	Shots	180
	10.1	Shooting %	11.1
	43	Hits	56
	18	Penalty minutes	26
	18:18	Average ice time	16:19
Five-on-five, while he was on the ice
	54.1	Corsi for %	49.8
	+3.5	CF% relative to team	+1.7
	54.7	Fenwick for %	49.5
	52.7	Expected goals for %	51.1
	+0.7	xGF% relative to team	+1.9
	55.8	Goals for %	56.5
	100.7	PDO	102.1
	180	Shot attempts taken	223
Expected goals, all situations
	21.2	Expected goals	22.1
	0.85	Expected goals per 60	0.99
	9.9%	Chance per attempt	9.3%
	-5.2	Goals above expected	-2.1
Rating, in goals
	+6.2	Goals above replacement	+11.6
	+1.0	Wins above replacement	+1.9
	+3.8	Even-strength offence	+8.3
	-1.3	Even-strength defence	-2.6
	-1.1	Power play	-1.9
	-0.1	Penalty kill	+0.1
	+0.8	Penalties	+3.9
Contract
	$7M	Cap hit	$925K
	$132K	Cap dollars per point	$18K
	$4.6M	Worth at the going rate	$8M
	-$2.4M	Value: worth minus cap hit	+$7.1M

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