Compare players, 2016-17 season

At a glance

Nathan MacKinnon Mikael Backlund

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

Nathan MacKinnon C, COL		2016-17	Mikael Backlund C, CGY
	82	Games played	81
	16	Goals	22
	37	Assists	31
	53	Points	53
	0.65	Points per game	0.65
	-14	Plus/minus	9
	251	Shots	197
	6.4	Shooting %	11.2
	56	Hits	55
	16	Penalty minutes	36
	19:57	Average ice time	17:36
Five-on-five, while he was on the ice
	50.6	Corsi for %	54.7
	+3.1	CF% relative to team	+5.7
	50.1	Fenwick for %	55.0
	48.0	Expected goals for %	52.1
	+5.0	xGF% relative to team	+4.2
	45.9	Goals for %	53.1
	98.6	PDO	99.0
	303	Shot attempts taken	245
Expected goals, all situations
	21.9	Expected goals	20.9
	0.80	Expected goals per 60	0.88
	6.6%	Chance per attempt	7.7%
	-6.9	Goals above expected	+1.1
Rating, in goals
	+8.9	Goals above replacement	+8.9
	+1.5	Wins above replacement	+1.5
	+5.1	Even-strength offence	+3.4
	-2.6	Even-strength defence	0.0
	-0.6	Power play	+1.7
	-0.1	Penalty kill	+0.4
	+2.6	Penalties	-0.6
Contract
	$6.3M	Cap hit	$3.575M
	$119K	Cap dollars per point	$67K
	$6.2M	Worth at the going rate	$6.2M
	-$55K	Value: worth minus cap hit	+$2.7M

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