Compare players, 2023-24 season

At a glance

Matthew Kessel Nikita Zaitsev

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

Matthew Kessel D, STL		2023-24	Nikita Zaitsev D, CHI
	39	Games played	38
	1	Goals	2
	6	Assists	5
	7	Points	7
	0.18	Points per game	0.18
	0	Plus/minus	-5
	28	Shots	31
	3.6	Shooting %	6.5
	40	Hits	69
	12	Penalty minutes	14
	16:48	Average ice time	15:56
Five-on-five, while he was on the ice
	46.7	Corsi for %	43.6
	+1.2	CF% relative to team	-1.1
	46.3	Fenwick for %	42.2
	42.8	Expected goals for %	40.2
	-1.2	xGF% relative to team	-1.1
	50.0	Goals for %	37.8
	100.6	PDO	99.2
	77	Shot attempts taken	82
Expected goals, all situations
	1.4	Expected goals	1.1
	0.12	Expected goals per 60	0.11
	3.0%	Chance per attempt	2.1%
	-0.4	Goals above expected	+0.9
Rating, in goals
	+0.8	Goals above replacement	-0.6
	+0.1	Wins above replacement	-0.1
	-2.5	Even-strength offence	-1.7
	+2.0	Even-strength defence	+0.4
	0.0	Power play	-0.5
	-0.2	Penalty kill	0.0
	-0.6	Penalties	-0.8
Contract
	$884K	Cap hit	$4.5M
	$126K	Cap dollars per point	$643K
	$1.4M	Worth at the going rate	$327K
	+$479K	Value: worth minus cap hit	-$4.2M

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