Compare players, 2016-17 season

At a glance

Oliver Ekman-Larsson Matt Niskanen

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

Oliver Ekman-Larsson D, TOR		2016-17	Matt Niskanen D, PHI
	79	Games played	78
	12	Goals	5
	27	Assists	34
	39	Points	39
	0.49	Points per game	0.50
	-25	Plus/minus	20
	145	Shots	154
	8.3	Shooting %	3.2
	112	Hits	147
	48	Penalty minutes	32
	24:37	Average ice time	22:11
Five-on-five, while he was on the ice
	45.0	Corsi for %	54.4
	-0.2	CF% relative to team	+4.0
	44.7	Fenwick for %	53.5
	42.3	Expected goals for %	50.4
	+0.8	xGF% relative to team	-0.7
	45.7	Goals for %	59.6
	100.2	PDO	101.7
	208	Shot attempts taken	273
Expected goals, all situations
	8.9	Expected goals	6.0
	0.28	Expected goals per 60	0.21
	4.0%	Chance per attempt	2.8%
	+3.1	Goals above expected	-2.0
Rating, in goals
	+0.6	Goals above replacement	+6.3
	+0.1	Wins above replacement	+1.0
	-0.8	Even-strength offence	+1.6
	-2.5	Even-strength defence	-0.4
	-1.4	Power play	0.0
	-0.6	Penalty kill	+0.7
	-0.6	Penalties	-1.4
Contract
	$5.5M	Cap hit	$5.75M
	$141K	Cap dollars per point	$147K
	$943K	Worth at the going rate	$4.6M
	-$4.6M	Value: worth minus cap hit	-$1.2M

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