Compare players, 2026-27 season

At a glance

Noah Cates Brad Lambert

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

Noah Cates L, PHI		2026-27	Brad Lambert C, WPG
	7	Games played	5
	0	Goals	0
	0	Assists	0
	0	Points	0
	0.00	Points per game	0.00
	-4	Plus/minus	-3
	7	Shots	3
	0.0	Shooting %	0.0
	5	Hits	3
	0	Penalty minutes	2
	12:18	Average ice time	10:36
Five-on-five, while he was on the ice
	44.0	Corsi for %	27.8
	+7.3	CF% relative to team	-23.8
	43.4	Fenwick for %	26.1
	42.6	Expected goals for %	15.4
	+14.1	xGF% relative to team	-33.9
	0.0	Goals for %	0.0
	85.7	PDO	92.9
	9	Shot attempts taken	6
Expected goals, all situations
	0.7	Expected goals	0.2
	0.49	Expected goals per 60	0.28
	7.9%	Chance per attempt	4.9%
	-0.7	Goals above expected	-0.2
Rating, in goals
	+8.0	Goals above replacement	-2.5
	+1.3	Wins above replacement	-0.4
	-0.7	Even-strength offence	-1.3
	+4.1	Even-strength defence	-1.6
	-0.4	Power play	-0.2
	+0.7	Penalty kill	+0.0
	+1.0	Penalties	+0.2
Contract
	$4M	Cap hit	$887K
	$8.5M	Worth at the going rate	-$1.6M
	+$4.5M	Value: worth minus cap hit	-$2.5M

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. The season is still being played, so each rating is projected over the whole season: the games played so far, plus the games left at the rate of the last three seasons and this one. What the advanced numbers mean