Compare players, 2011-12 season

At a glance

Niklas Hjalmarsson Chris Butler

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

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

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