Compare players, 2012-13 season

At a glance

Sidney Crosby Eric Staal

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

Sidney Crosby C, PIT		2012-13	Eric Staal C, FLA
	36	Games played	48
	15	Goals	18
	41	Assists	35
	56	Points	53
	1.56	Points per game	1.10
	26	Plus/minus	5
	124	Shots	152
	12.1	Shooting %	11.8
	21	Hits	35
	16	Penalty minutes	54
	21:06	Average ice time	21:00
Five-on-five, while he was on the ice
	56.5	Corsi for %	49.9
	+8.6	CF% relative to team	-2.5
	56.9	Fenwick for %	49.1
	60.0	Expected goals for %	47.3
	+9.9	xGF% relative to team	-1.6
	71.2	Goals for %	56.1
	106.7	PDO	103.1
	138	Shot attempts taken	169
Expected goals, all situations
	15.1	Expected goals	18.4
	1.19	Expected goals per 60	1.09
	9.1%	Chance per attempt	9.0%
	-0.1	Goals above expected	-1.4
Rating, in goals
	+15.0	Goals above replacement	+6.3
	+2.5	Wins above replacement	+1.0
	+10.5	Even-strength offence	+6.7
	-0.9	Even-strength defence	-2.6
	+1.8	Power play	+0.6
	-0.3	Penalty kill	-0.1
	+1.8	Penalties	-1.2
Contract
	$8.7M	Cap hit	$8.25M
	$155K	Cap dollars per point	$156K
	$13.5M	Worth at the going rate	$5.9M
	+$4.8M	Value: worth minus cap hit	-$2.3M

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