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William Bitten

#42 · Centre · St. Louis Blues

Born Jul 10, 1998 in Ottawa, Ontario, CAN · 5'11", 180 lb · Shoots right · Drafted 70th overall in 2016 by MTL (round 3)

Compare with a similar player

The forwards closest to him in points in 2022-23. Pick one to see the two side by side, or choose someone else.

David Gust CHI · 1 P in 4 GP Joseph Cramarossa MIN · 1 P in 4 GP Andy Andreoff NYI · 1 P in 3 GP Brendan Gaunce CBJ · 1 P in 5 GP Dominic Toninato WPG · 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.

Season Team GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP Cap hit
2022-23 STL 4 0 1 1 1 0 0 10 0.25 $760K
1 season Career 4 0 1 1 1 0 0 10 0.25

2022-23 season totals

GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP Shooting % Avg TOI
4 0 1 1 1 0 0 10 0.25 0.0 6:39

Contract

$760KCap hit2022-23
$760KCap dollars per point1 points in 4 games
$3MCap dollars per goal above replacement0.3 goals above replacement

His cap hit for the whole season, set against what he did in the regular season. Lower is better value. In a season still being played the cost per point starts high and falls as the games add up.

The contract

Who signed him to it, and when, are not on record. When it ends is not known.

Contracts he has signed

Signed Signed by Kind Seasons Years In all Cap hit
2022-23 to 2022-23 $760K

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 2022-23 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.

2022-23 analytics

Rating

+0.3Goals above replacementsix goals are worth about one win
+0.0Wins above replacementgoals above replacement divided by six
+0.2Goals above averagethe five parts below added up
Even-strength offence-0.1Even-strength defence+0.1Power play0.0Penalty kill0.0Penalties+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.

On the ice

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

42.9Corsi for %12 attempts for, 16 against
-5.2CF% relative to teamagainst the team without him
31.5Expected goals for %0.5 expected for, 1.0 against
-14.6xGF% relative to teamagainst the team without him
47.8Fenwick for %unblocked attempts
100.0Goals for %1 for, 0 against
110.0PDO10.0% shooting + 100.0% saves
0Attempts 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

Forward lineGPTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Brandon Saad · Ivan Barbashev · William Bitten212:2650.041.71-0
Nathan Walker · Noel Acciari · William Bitten39:2325.018.00-0
Tyler Pitlick · Nathan Walker · William Bitten11:090.00.00-0
Brayden Schenn · Nathan Walker · William Bitten10:44100.0100.00-0

The lines 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 lines that played a fair amount together. Hover over one for its percentile.

Game log

Date Opponent Result G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI
Dec 11, 2022 vs COL L 2-3 (OT) 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 05:09
Dec 8, 2022 vs WPG L 2-5 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 07:40
Dec 6, 2022 @ NYI W 7-4 0 1 1 1 0 0 3 07:28
Dec 3, 2022 @ PIT L 2-6 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 06:18