Compare players, 2011-12 season

At a glance

Chris Butler Niklas Hjalmarsson

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

Chris Butler D, STL		2011-12	Niklas Hjalmarsson D, ARI
	68	Games played	69
	2	Goals	1
	13	Assists	14
	15	Points	15
	0.22	Points per game	0.22
	-9	Plus/minus	9
	62	Shots	65
	3.2	Shooting %	1.5
	70	Hits	42
	34	Penalty minutes	14
	21:36	Average ice time	20:11
Five-on-five, while he was on the ice
	46.3	Corsi for %	52.2
	-1.4	CF% relative to team	-1.5
	45.5	Fenwick for %	53.4
	48.8	Expected goals for %	50.8
	+0.1	xGF% relative to team	-2.2
	47.2	Goals for %	51.2
	100.3	PDO	99.2
	122	Shot attempts taken	148
Expected goals, all situations
	2.7	Expected goals	1.9
	0.11	Expected goals per 60	0.08
	2.8%	Chance per attempt	2.0%
	-0.7	Goals above expected	-0.9
Rating, in goals
	-0.4	Goals above replacement	+4.3
	-0.1	Wins above replacement	+0.7
	-1.8	Even-strength offence	-4.5
	-2.2	Even-strength defence	+4.3
	-0.4	Power play	-0.1
	-0.5	Penalty kill	-0.6
	-0.4	Penalties	+0.5
Contract
	$1.25M	Cap hit	$3.5M
	$83K	Cap dollars per point	$233K
	$318K	Worth at the going rate	$2.5M
	-$932K	Value: worth minus cap hit	-$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