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Michal Kempny

#6 · Defence · Washington Capitals

Born Sep 8, 1990 in Hodonin, CZE · 6'1", 190 lb · Shoots left

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Stanley Cup NHL Champion 2017-18

Compare with a similar player

The defencemen closest to him in points in 2016-17. Pick one to see the two side by side, or choose someone else.

Christian Folin MIN · 8 P in 51 GP Justin Falk BUF · 8 P in 52 GP Alexey Marchenko TOR · 8 P in 41 GP Connor Carrick TOR · 8 P in 67 GP Yannick Weber NSH · 8 P in 73 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.

05101520252016-17: 8 points816-172017-18: 10 points1017-182018-19: 25 points2518-192019-20: 18 points1819-202021-22: 2 points221-22

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

Season Team GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP Cap hit
2016-17 CHI 50 2 6 8 1 22 67 76 0.16 $700K
2017-18 CHI 31 1 6 7 13 12 50 31 0.23 $900K
2017-18 WSH 22 2 1 3 1 14 32 26 0.14
2018-19 WSH 71 6 19 25 24 60 111 84 0.35 $2.5M
2019-20 WSH 58 3 15 18 19 22 73 42 0.31 $2.5M
2021-22 WSH 15 1 1 2 -3 16 10 22 0.13 $2.5M
5 seasons Career 247 15 48 63 55 146 343 281 0.26

Playoffs

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

Season Team GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP
2016-17 CHI 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0.00
2017-18 WSH 24 2 3 5 1 10 39 31 0.21
2019-20 WSH 2 0 0 0 -3 0 1 4 0.00
3 seasons Playoffs 27 2 3 5 -2 10 41 37 0.19

2016-17 season totals

GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP Shooting % Avg TOI
50 2 6 8 1 22 67 76 0.16 3.0 14:58

Contract

$700KCap hit2016-17
$88KCap dollars per point8 points in 50 games
$145KCap dollars per goal above replacement4.8 goals above replacement
$3.6MWorth at the going ratewhat teams paid for a season like his
+$2.9MValueworth minus cap hit; below zero is overpaid

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. Value is coloured by where it ranks among the 664 ranked skaters whose contract is known. How value is worked out.

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
2021-22 to 2021-22 $2.5M
2018-19 to 2021-22 $2.5M
2017-18 to 2017-18 $900K
2016-17 to 2016-17 $700K

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 2016-17 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.

2016-17 analytics

Regular season Playoffs

Rating

+4.8Goals above replacement209th of 664 skaters, 61st of 229 defencemen
+0.8Wins above replacementgoals above replacement divided by six
+2.3Goals above averagethe five parts below added up

Each number is coloured by where it ranks among the 229 ranked defencemen: green is in the top fifth and red the bottom fifth, with paler shades in between and amber for the middle. Hover over a tile for its percentile.

Even-strength offence+1.1 80th percentileEven-strength defence+2.7 84th percentilePower play-0.1 49th percentilePenalty kill-0.2 31st percentilePenalties-1.2 25th percentile

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, and the rank beside it is among defencemen. A full season is about two-thirds the player and one-third chance. 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.

-10123452016-172017-182018-192019-202021-22Goals 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

56.6Corsi for %755 attempts for, 580 against
+7.3CF% relative to teamagainst the team without him
56.6Expected goals for %29.9 expected for, 22.9 against
+10.2xGF% relative to teamagainst the team without him
56.6Fenwick for %unblocked attempts
49.1Goals for %26 for, 27 against
98.0PDO6.8% shooting + 91.1% saves
171Attempts takenhis own shot attempts

Each share is coloured by where it ranks among the 565 skaters who played enough to be ranked: green is in the top fifth and red the bottom fifth, with paler shades in between and amber for the middle. Hover over a tile for its percentile. PDO and attempts taken are left plain, since neither is good or bad on its own.

Who he played with

Defence pairGPTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Brent Seabrook · Michal Kempny43443:1155.655.019-15
Michal Rozsival · Michal Kempny13122:4057.956.32-4
Trevor van Riemsdyk · Michal Kempny2563:5259.168.62-3
Niklas Hjalmarsson · Michal Kempny3346:0957.365.93-4

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.

2Goalsnot counting empty-netters
2.5Expected goalsfrom 106 unblocked attempts
-0.5Goals above expectedgoals minus expected goals
Chances created 0.20 expected goals per 60 minutes57th
Shot quality 2.4% chance per attempt19th
Finishing -0.5 goals above expected46thOne season of finishing is mostly luck.

Each bar shows the share of defencemen he is ahead of, among the 229 who played 300 minutes or more this season.

012Game 20Game 40Expected 2.5Goals 2

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. Darker red means more attempts from that spot, and each dot is a goal. "Show every shot" switches to a dot for each attempt, bigger for a better chance. Click a goal for its details.

Game log

Date Opponent Result G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI
Apr 6, 2017 @ ANA L 0-4 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 19:10
Apr 4, 2017 @ COL L 3-4 (OT) 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 15:47
Mar 19, 2017 vs COL W 6-3 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 10:25
Mar 10, 2017 @ DET L 2-4 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 14:56
Mar 4, 2017 @ NSH W 5-3 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 12:07
Mar 3, 2017 vs NYI W 2-1 (SO) 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 14:22
Mar 1, 2017 vs PIT W 4-1 0 0 0 -1 0 3 0 13:20
Feb 26, 2017 vs STL W 4-2 0 0 0 1 0 2 2 14:22
Feb 23, 2017 vs ARI W 6-3 0 0 0 0 0 4 2 15:49
Feb 21, 2017 @ MIN W 5-3 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 16:24
Feb 19, 2017 @ BUF W 5-1 0 1 1 1 0 4 0 13:26
Feb 18, 2017 vs EDM L 1-3 0 0 0 -1 0 0 3 15:51
Feb 10, 2017 @ WPG W 5-2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 13:16
Feb 8, 2017 @ MIN W 4-3 (OT) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15:44
Jan 26, 2017 vs WPG L 3-5 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 08:54
Jan 24, 2017 vs TBL L 2-5 0 0 0 1 2 0 1 10:42
Jan 22, 2017 vs VAN W 4-2 0 0 0 -1 2 0 1 14:48
Jan 20, 2017 @ BOS W 1-0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 18:03
Jan 17, 2017 @ COL W 6-4 0 1 1 1 0 0 2 17:08
Jan 15, 2017 vs MIN L 2-3 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 16:32
Jan 10, 2017 vs DET W 4-3 (OT) 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 13:08
Jan 8, 2017 vs NSH W 5-2 0 0 0 -1 2 2 2 13:58
Jan 6, 2017 vs CAR W 2-1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 12:40
Jan 5, 2017 vs BUF W 4-3 (OT) 0 1 1 0 2 2 2 17:49
Jan 2, 2017 @ STL L 1-4 1 0 1 1 0 1 2 16:55
Dec 30, 2016 @ CAR L 2-3 1 1 2 1 0 2 1 16:57
Dec 29, 2016 @ NSH W 3-2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10:00
Dec 15, 2016 @ NYI W 5-4 0 0 0 -3 0 0 3 06:54
Dec 4, 2016 vs WPG L 1-2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 09:41
Dec 3, 2016 @ PHI L 1-3 0 0 0 -2 0 2 5 15:52
Dec 1, 2016 vs NJD W 4-3 (OT) 0 0 0 0 2 2 3 14:05
Nov 26, 2016 @ LAK L 1-2 (OT) 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 14:53
Nov 21, 2016 @ EDM L 0-5 0 0 0 -2 2 1 1 17:53
Nov 19, 2016 @ VAN W 4-3 (OT) 0 1 1 0 0 2 3 14:31
Nov 18, 2016 @ CGY W 3-2 0 1 1 1 0 5 1 18:16
Nov 15, 2016 @ WPG L 0-4 0 0 0 -2 2 1 2 16:35
Nov 13, 2016 vs MTL W 3-2 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 19:12
Nov 11, 2016 vs WSH L 2-3 (OT) 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 17:01
Nov 9, 2016 @ STL W 2-1 (OT) 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 13:36
Nov 6, 2016 vs DAL W 4-3 (OT) 0 0 0 1 0 1 5 16:02
Nov 5, 2016 @ DAL W 3-2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 13:28
Nov 3, 2016 vs COL W 4-0 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 18:26
Oct 30, 2016 vs LAK W 3-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 14:28
Oct 28, 2016 @ NJD W 3-2 (OT) 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 14:16
Oct 22, 2016 vs TOR W 5-4 (SO) 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 13:35
Oct 21, 2016 @ CBJ L 2-3 0 0 0 1 2 1 1 13:44
Oct 18, 2016 vs PHI W 7-4 0 0 0 2 2 2 3 17:57
Oct 15, 2016 vs NSH W 5-3 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 19:34
Oct 14, 2016 @ NSH L 2-3 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 17:02
Oct 12, 2016 vs STL L 2-5 0 0 0 -1 0 0 2 18:44