Alex Turcotte Matchups NHL Stats & Career Totals

He owns this goalie, and the numbers are not close

Turcotte has scored 1 times on Yaroslav Askarov this season, more than on any other goaltender.

1 goals on 6 attempts, 16.7%

This goalie has his number and he cannot solve him

Jonathan Quick has turned him away every time: 8 attempts, no goals.

0.0% conversion

No goalie has seen more of him than this one

No goalie has seen more of him than Jonathan Quick: 8 attempts, 0 goals.

0.0% conversion

He wins the draw against this centre almost every time

He wins 75.0% of his draws against Alexander Wennberg.

6 of 8 faceoffs

This centre beats him on the draw almost every time

Ryan Poehling beats him on the draw: he wins only 38.5% of them.

5 of 13 faceoffs

He can beat goalies from further out than most players

3.0% of his attempts are fired from beyond 45 feet.

4 long-range attempts, 6th of 468 forwards

He gets to the hard areas rather than firing from range

His average attempt comes from 20.3 feet.

135 located attempts, 13th of 468 forwards

He gets his chances from the dirty areas, not the perimeter

68.9% of what he shoots comes from the slot.

93 attempts from inside the home plate, 19th of 468 forwards

His game is played in the hardest part of the ice

68.9% of his attempts come from inside 25 feet.

93 of 135 attempts, 21st of 468 forwards

There is one shot he goes to more than any other

35.6% of his attempts are the wrist shot.

48 attempts, 1 goals

He works one side of the ice far more than the other

48.9% of his attempts come from the middle lane.

41 left, 66 middle, 28 right

He barely shoots the puck across a whole season

Turcotte has taken 135 shot attempts this season.

64 on goal, 39 missed, 29 blocked, 332nd of 468 forwards

A lot of his shots miss the net entirely

63.2% of his unblocked attempts actually hit the net.

67 of 106 unblocked, 324th of 468 forwards

He shoots about as often as anyone else

He fires 12.07 attempts an hour of ice time.

135 attempts in 671 minutes, 248th of 466 forwards

About the usual number of his shots get blocked

21.5% of everything he shoots gets blocked before it arrives.

29 of 135 attempts, 239th of 468 forwards

He is not converting the chances he gets

Turcotte has 3 goals off 11.4 expected: 8.4 short of what the chances say.

462nd of 468 forwards

His shooting has gone cold this season

He converts 4.5% of the shots he puts on goal.

3 goals on 67 shots, 449th of 468 forwards

The chances in tight are not going in for him

From inside 25 feet he buries 3.2% of his attempts.

3 goals on 93 close attempts, 441st of 468 forwards

One shot in his bag goes in far more often than the rest

His deadliest shot is the tip: 3.8% of them go in.

1 goals on 26 attempts

There is a range from which his goals almost always come

His goals average 10.3 feet out, and the longest went in from 16.

3 goals located by coordinate

He wins the draws his team needs him to win

He wins 54.1% of his draws.

85th in the league

He takes the puck off people more than almost anyone

He takes the puck back 1.25 times an hour.

169th in the league

The scoreboard moves the wrong way when he plays

He is -8 on the season.

750th in the league

He gives the puck away more than he should

14 takeaways against 28 giveaways: he loses it far more often than he wins it back.

0.5 takeaways per giveaway

He almost never hands the puck to the other team

He gives it away 2.5 times an hour.

640th most giveaways an hour

He is the one who makes the play, not the one who finishes it

He sets up 0.98 assists an hour of ice time.

336th in the league

He spends too much time in the penalty box

He takes 1.88 penalty minutes an hour.

337th most penalty minutes an hour

He shoots the puck himself, not just when his line has it

He puts 5.91 shots on goal an hour.

345th in the league

He blocks about as many shots as anyone else

He blocks 3.04 shots an hour of ice time.

391st in the league

He plays about as physical a game as anyone

He finishes 4.56 checks an hour.

400th in the league

He scores at about the rate you would expect

He scores 0.27 goals an hour of ice time.

577th in the league

He produces at about the rate you would expect

Turcotte produces 1.25 points an hour of ice time.

488th in the league

His line wastes the chances it works so hard to create

His line is being outscored despite the play: 42.0% of the goals off 58.9% of the expected goals.

16.9 points of goal share below expectation

The offence comes alive when he steps on the ice

The Kings create 5.77 expected goals an hour at 5v5 with Turcotte on.

8th of 454 forwards

His line spends the night in the other team's end

At 5v5 the Kings generate 58.9% of the expected goals with Turcotte on the ice.

61.8 xGF to 43.1 xGA over 642 minutes, 16th of 454 forwards

His results are about what the underlying play deserves

His 5v5 on-ice percentages add to 95.4, running cold and likely to correct.

6.5% shooting and 88.8% goaltending behind him, 424th of 454 forwards

His side controls the puck while he is out there

Turcotte's line owns 55.4% of the 5v5 shot attempts.

697 for, 562 against, 45th of 454 forwards

His line puts far more rubber on the net than it allows

55.3% of the 5v5 shots on goal go his way when Turcotte is on.

322 for, 260 against, 49th of 454 forwards

Almost nothing comes back the other way with him out there

Opponents get 52.54 shot attempts an hour with Turcotte on the ice at 5v5.

84th of 454 forwards

His team keeps getting outscored while he is out there

The Kings score 42.0% of the 5v5 goals with Turcotte out there.

21 for, 29 against, 358th of 454 forwards

Very little gets through when he is on the ice

He gives up 4.03 expected goals an hour at 5v5.

107th of 454 forwards

The goals go the wrong way when he is on the ice

The Kings are down 8 goals with Turcotte on the ice.

21 for, 29 against, 336th of 466 forwards

He is barely used, which tells you where he sits

Turcotte plays 10:49 a night, 454th among forwards.

671 minutes across 62 games

Andrei Kuzmenko is the partner who brings the best out of him

Turcotte is at his best beside Kuzmenko: 65.9% of the expected goals together against 55.5% apart.

220 minutes together, 422 minutes apart

It stops working when he is paired with Joel Edmundson

The pairing with Edmundson is the one that costs him: 52.0% of the expected goals together, 61.7% apart.

202 minutes together, 440 minutes apart

Teammates play better with him than they do without him

Fiala is a different player beside him: 65.2% of the expected goals with Turcotte, 48.9% without him.

193 minutes together, 618 minutes apart for Fiala

His linemates play better with him than without him, every time

9 of his 9 regular 5v5 partners post a better expected-goal share beside Turcotte than away from him.

partners with at least 100 minutes together and apart

He and Cody Ceci are the pair that scares the other team

The pairing that generates most is Turcotte and Ceci: 7.34 expected goals an hour.

213 minutes together at 5v5

Brian Dumoulin is the partner his coach keeps going back to

He spends more 5v5 time with Dumoulin than anyone: 232 minutes, worth 61.4% of the expected goals.

6 goals for, 7 against together

Nothing gets through when he and Drew Doughty are out together

He gives up least beside Doughty: 2.8 expected goals against an hour.

186 minutes together at 5v5

This is the group his coach trusts with the game

The five the coach goes back to is Turcotte with Clarke, Edmundson, Fiala and Kuzmenko, 55 minutes at 5v5.

62.8% of the expected goals, 5 goals for and 1 against

This is the group that wins him his minutes

His best five is with Ceci, Dumoulin, Fiala and Kuzmenko: 77.5% of the expected goals over 33 minutes.

0 goals for, 1 against, 61.5% of the attempts

His coach keeps shuffling the players around him

Turcotte has been shuffled through 22 different five-man units, and only 3 of them have settled.

units of at least 5 minutes; 30 minutes counts as settled

The same few teammates are on the ice with him all night

10 teammates have played at least 100 5v5 minutes with Turcotte this season.

each of them also has that long apart from him, so every split below is a real split

Kevin Fiala is the teammate he sets up more than anyone

He has helped on 3 of Kevin Fiala's goals, 27.3% of his own assists.

2 primary, 1 secondary

Most of his assists are second touches, not the key pass

36.4% of his assists are primary, the pass that actually made the goal.

4 primary of 11 assists

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