Compare players, 2013-14 season

At a glance

Nicklas Backstrom Phil Kessel

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

Nicklas Backstrom C, WSH		2013-14	Phil Kessel R, VGK
	82	Games played	82
	18	Goals	37
	61	Assists	43
	79	Points	80
	0.96	Points per game	0.98
	-20	Plus/minus	-5
	196	Shots	305
	9.2	Shooting %	12.1
	89	Hits	25
	54	Penalty minutes	27
	19:48	Average ice time	20:40
Five-on-five, while he was on the ice
	49.3	Corsi for %	44.2
	+2.3	CF% relative to team	+2.2
	48.2	Fenwick for %	43.2
	47.1	Expected goals for %	44.4
	-0.8	xGF% relative to team	+3.1
	41.8	Goals for %	53.5
	98.2	PDO	102.6
	217	Shot attempts taken	387
Expected goals, all situations
	19.9	Expected goals	27.0
	0.73	Expected goals per 60	0.96
	7.4%	Chance per attempt	6.7%
	-1.9	Goals above expected	+9.0
Rating, in goals
	+5.6	Goals above replacement	+9.1
	+0.9	Wins above replacement	+1.5
	-1.2	Even-strength offence	+10.2
	-0.4	Even-strength defence	-8.5
	+3.2	Power play	+1.9
	-0.1	Penalty kill	0.0
	-0.4	Penalties	+0.9
Contract
	$6.7M	Cap hit	$5.4M
	$85K	Cap dollars per point	$68K
	$3.7M	Worth at the going rate	$5.7M
	-$3M	Value: worth minus cap hit	+$332K

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