Compare players, 2014-15 season

At a glance

Sidney Crosby Nicklas Backstrom

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		2014-15	Nicklas Backstrom C, WSH
	77	Games played	82
	28	Goals	18
	56	Assists	60
	84	Points	78
	1.09	Points per game	0.95
	5	Plus/minus	5
	237	Shots	153
	11.8	Shooting %	11.8
	66	Hits	91
	47	Penalty minutes	40
	19:58	Average ice time	20:32
Five-on-five, while he was on the ice
	56.0	Corsi for %	54.0
	+4.7	CF% relative to team	+4.0
	55.7	Fenwick for %	54.3
	57.5	Expected goals for %	55.2
	+7.8	xGF% relative to team	+3.4
	57.6	Goals for %	50.0
	100.7	PDO	98.9
	259	Shot attempts taken	199
Expected goals, all situations
	26.2	Expected goals	15.6
	1.02	Expected goals per 60	0.55
	8.4%	Chance per attempt	6.8%
	-0.2	Goals above expected	+1.4
Rating, in goals
	+18.1	Goals above replacement	+10.0
	+3.0	Wins above replacement	+1.7
	+9.4	Even-strength offence	+2.7
	-0.7	Even-strength defence	+1.7
	+2.9	Power play	+2.2
	-0.1	Penalty kill	-0.4
	+2.3	Penalties	-0.8
Contract
	$8.7M	Cap hit	$6.7M
	$104K	Cap dollars per point	$86K
	$11.4M	Worth at the going rate	$6.6M
	+$2.7M	Value: worth minus cap hit	-$106K

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