Hockey Terminal
Be a GM

← All players

Photo of Brian Strait

Brian Strait

#47 · Defence · Winnipeg Jets

Born Jan 4, 1988 in Waltham, Massachusetts, USA · 6'1", 206 lb · Shoots left · Drafted 65th overall in 2006 by PIT (round 3)

Compare with a similar player

The defencemen closest to him in points in 2011-12. Pick one to see the two side by side, or choose someone else.

Doug Janik DET · 1 P in 9 GP Radek Martinek CBJ · 1 P in 7 GP TJ Brennan BUF · 1 P in 11 GP Alexander Urbom NJD · 1 P in 5 GP Cade Fairchild STL · 1 P in 5 GP

Career

Regular season games only. Pick a season to see its game log below. Cap hit is what he counted against the salary cap that season, where it is known.

024682010-11: 0 points010-112011-12: 1 points111-122012-13: 4 points412-132013-14: 9 points913-142014-15: 7 points714-152015-16: 6 points615-162016-17: 2 points216-17

Points by season. The darker bar is the season shown below.

Season Team GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP Cap hit
2010-11 PIT 3 0 0 0 -1 0 0 2 0.00
2011-12 PIT 9 0 1 1 -2 4 4 12 0.11
2012-13 NYI 19 0 4 4 4 10 13 33 0.21 $605K
2013-14 NYI 47 3 6 9 -14 14 40 65 0.19 $775K
2014-15 NYI 52 2 5 7 -1 32 59 124 0.13 $775K
2015-16 NYI 52 1 5 6 1 31 43 106 0.12 $775K
2016-17 WPG 5 0 2 2 -1 0 3 5 0.40 $600K
7 seasons Career 187 6 23 29 -14 91 162 347 0.16

Playoffs

Playoff games only. Pick a season to see that year's bracket.

Season Team GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP
2011-12 PIT 3 0 0 0 3 0 2 1 0.00
2012-13 NYI 6 1 0 1 1 12 5 13 0.17
2014-15 NYI 7 0 0 0 -3 4 4 13 0.00
3 seasons Playoffs 16 1 0 1 1 16 11 27 0.06

2011-12 season totals

GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP Shooting % Avg TOI
9 0 1 1 -2 4 4 12 0.11 0.0 12:53

Contract

Contracts he has signed

Signed Signed by Kind Seasons Years In all Cap hit
2016-17 to 2016-17 $600K
2013-14 to 2015-16 $775K
2012-13 to 2012-13 $605K

Every contract on record for him, newest first, with the team that signed him to it and the day it was signed. The one covering 2011-12 is marked. An extension is signed while the contract before it is still running, often a year ahead. A row with no team or date is a contract known only by its cap hit, most often one signed since October 2024.

2011-12 analytics

Regular season Playoffs

Rating

+0.4Goals above replacementsix goals are worth about one win
+0.1Wins above replacementgoals above replacement divided by six
+0.0Goals above averagethe five parts below added up
Even-strength offence-0.3Even-strength defence+0.1Power play0.0Penalty kill+0.0Penalties+0.2

The goals he added to his team's goal difference, compared with a spare-part player given the same ice time. Each part is measured against the league, so zero is an average skater. A full season is about two-thirds the player and one-third chance. He has played fewer than 20 games, too few to be ranked. Before 2023-24 the NHL timed events less exactly, and differently from rink to rink, so expected goals for this season are rougher than for recent ones.

-8-6-4-2022010-112011-122012-132013-142014-152015-162016-17Goals above replacementGoals above replacement, by season

On the ice

What happened at five-on-five while he was on the ice. What these numbers mean

47.1Corsi for %89 attempts for, 100 against
-8.7CF% relative to teamagainst the team without him
55.1Expected goals for %4.6 expected for, 3.8 against
+1.1xGF% relative to teamagainst the team without him
50.3Fenwick for %unblocked attempts
37.5Goals for %3 for, 5 against
95.8PDO5.3% shooting + 90.6% saves
11Attempts takenhis own shot attempts

These are left plain: he has not been on the ice enough to be ranked. That takes at least 200 shot attempts with him out there, about six or seven games, and a quarter of what the busiest skater has. Over a game or two these numbers are mostly chance.

Who he played with

Defence pairGPTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Deryk Engelland · Brian Strait540:3736.427.51-2
Brian Strait · Ben Lovejoy432:2948.171.51-0
Paul Martin · Brian Strait322:4960.074.41-2
Matt Niskanen · Brian Strait34:2044.459.00-0

The pairs he spent the most time in at five-on-five, with the team's share of the shot attempts and expected goals, and the goals for and against, while they were out. The two shares are coloured as above, against the league's pairs that played a fair amount together. Hover over one for its percentile.

Chances and finishing

Expected goals adds up how likely each of his shots was to go in, judged by where it came from, what kind of shot it was and whether it was a rebound. All situations, leaving out shots at an empty net. Before 2023-24 the NHL timed events less exactly, and differently from rink to rink, so expected goals for this season are rougher than for recent ones.

0Goalsnot counting empty-netters
0.3Expected goalsfrom 12 unblocked attempts
-0.3Goals above expectedgoals minus expected goals
Chances created 0.16 expected goals per 60 minutes44th
Shot quality 2.5% chance per attempt19th
Finishing -0.3 goals above expected55thOne season of finishing is mostly luck.

Each bar shows the share of defencemen he is ahead of, among the 233 who played 300 minutes or more this season.

00.20.40.60.81Expected 0.3Goals 0

His goals and his expected goals as the season went on. When the goals line pulls away above, he is scoring more than his chances were worth; below, less.

Where he shot from

Every attempt he took this season, in all situations, attacking the net on the right. There is a dot for each attempt, bigger for a better chance. "Show as heat map" shades the ice by where the attempts came from. Click a goal for its details.

Game log

Date Opponent Result G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI
Apr 7, 2012 vs PHI W 4-2 0 0 0 -1 2 0 2 14:30
Apr 5, 2012 vs NYR W 5-2 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 13:30
Mar 30, 2012 @ BUF W 5-3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 12:21
Mar 29, 2012 @ NYI L 3-5 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 14:08
Mar 27, 2012 vs NYI L 3-5 0 1 1 0 2 1 0 13:49
Mar 9, 2012 vs FLA W 2-1 (SO) 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 16:38
Mar 7, 2012 vs TOR W 3-2 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 11:52
Mar 5, 2012 vs PHX W 2-1 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 12:19
Oct 18, 2011 @ MIN W 4-2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 06:52