Bobby Brink Matchups NHL Stats & Career Totals

He owns this goalie, and the numbers are not close

Brink has scored 2 times on Karel Vejmelka this season, more than on any other goaltender.

2 goals on 11 attempts, 18.2%

This goalie has his number and he cannot solve him

Linus Ullmark has turned him away every time: 9 attempts, no goals.

0.0% conversion

No goalie has seen more of him than this one

No goalie has seen more of him than Karel Vejmelka: 11 attempts, 2 goals.

18.2% conversion

There is one opponent he goes looking for all night

Brink has finished his check on Joel Hanley 4 times, more than anyone.

hits delivered, from play-by-play

There is one shot he goes to more than any other

36.4% of his attempts are the wrist shot.

76 attempts, 8 goals

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

42.6% of his attempts come from the middle lane.

54 left, 89 middle, 66 right

He can beat goalies from further out than most players

9.6% of his attempts are fired from beyond 45 feet.

20 long-range attempts, 130th of 468 forwards

He shoots the puck far more than most players at his position

He fires 14.72 attempts an hour of ice time.

209 attempts in 852 minutes, 141st of 466 forwards

He gets to the middle of the ice about as often as most

50.7% of his attempts come from inside 25 feet.

106 of 209 attempts, 272nd of 468 forwards

He takes an ordinary share of his shots from close range

50.7% of what he shoots comes from the slot.

106 attempts from inside the home plate, 265th of 468 forwards

He takes about as many shots over a season as anyone

Brink has taken 209 shot attempts this season.

91 on goal, 57 missed, 45 blocked, 214th of 468 forwards

He hits the net about as often as anyone

65.2% of his unblocked attempts actually hit the net.

107 of 164 unblocked, 241st of 468 forwards

About the usual number of his shots get blocked

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

45 of 209 attempts, 239th of 468 forwards

He shoots from about where everyone else shoots from

His average attempt comes from 26.0 feet.

209 located attempts, 220th of 468 forwards

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

His deadliest shot is the backhand: 11.1% of them go in.

2 goals on 18 attempts

He scores more than the chances he gets should produce

Brink has 16 goals off 13.1 expected: 2.9 more than the chances alone say.

136th of 468 forwards

There is a range from which his goals almost always come

His goals average 15.7 feet out, and the longest went in from 38.

16 goals located by coordinate

A remarkable share of his shots end up in the net

He converts 15.0% of the shots he puts on goal.

16 goals on 107 shots, 142nd of 468 forwards

The chances he gets in tight almost always go in

From inside 25 feet he buries 10.4% of his attempts.

11 goals on 106 close attempts, 143rd of 468 forwards

A lot of his goals arrive when the game is on the line

Brink has 3 game winners this season.

15 goals in total

The scoreboard moves the wrong way when he plays

He is -7 on the season.

744th in the league

He scores at a rate very few players match

He scores 0.87 goals an hour of ice time.

218th in the league

He gives the puck away more than he should

12 takeaways against 44 giveaways: he loses it far more often than he wins it back.

0.27 takeaways per giveaway

He is one of the reasons the man advantage scores

On the power play he produces 0.41 points an hour.

233rd in the league

Losing draws is a real hole in his game

He wins 36.0% of his draws.

416th in the league

He puts up points at a rate very few match

Brink produces 1.75 points an hour of ice time.

304th in the league

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

He puts 6.06 shots on goal an hour.

315th in the league

He almost never hands the puck to the other team

He gives it away 2.56 times an hour.

611th most giveaways an hour

He rarely wins the puck back on his own

He takes the puck back 0.7 times an hour.

600th in the league

He starts and finishes plays in about equal measure

He sets up 0.87 assists an hour of ice time.

423rd in the league

He blocks about as many shots as anyone else

He blocks 2.27 shots an hour of ice time.

558th in the league

He plays about as physical a game as anyone

He finishes 4.66 checks an hour.

390th in the league

He takes about as many penalties as anyone

He takes 1.4 penalty minutes an hour.

469th most penalty minutes an hour

The power play is a real weapon with him on it

On the power play his unit generates 11.98 expected goals an hour.

12 goals in 119 minutes, 35th of 269 forwards

Good things happen for his team when he is on the ice

The Wild are up 8 goals with Brink on the ice.

39 for, 31 against, 168th of 466 forwards

His coach leans on him more than almost anyone

Brink plays 15:29 a night, 210th among forwards.

852 minutes across 55 games

He gets an ordinary share of the power play time

He draws 2:19 of power play time a game, 135th among forwards.

14.0% of his total ice time

Jamie Drysdale is who he runs the power play with, almost every time

On the power play his best partner is Drysdale: 97.6% of the expected goals over 82 minutes.

7 goals for, 1 against together

This is the group his coach trusts with the game

The five the coach goes back to is Brink with Cates, Foerster, Sanheim and York, 64 minutes at 5v5.

50.0% of the expected goals, 0 goals for and 2 against

This is the group the power play actually runs through

His power-play unit is Drysdale, Dvorak, Konecny and Zegras: 4 goals in 29 minutes.

8.17 goals an hour, 7.9 expected

This is the group that wins him his minutes

His best five is with Andrae, Cates, Drysdale and Michkov: 61.1% of the expected goals over 30 minutes.

1 goal for, 1 against, 50.7% of the attempts

This group gets caved in every time it goes out

The five that struggles is with Cates, Drysdale, Michkov and York: 41.5% of the expected goals.

0 goals for, 1 against over 31 minutes

His coach keeps shuffling the players around him

Brink has played 28 different five-man units at 5v5, 4 of them for real minutes.

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

Noah Cates is the teammate who sets him up more than anyone

Noah Cates has assisted on 7 of his 16 goals, 43.8% of them.

6 primary, 1 secondary

Noah Cates is the teammate he sets up more than anyone

He has helped on 6 of Noah Cates's goals, 40.0% of his own assists.

4 primary, 2 secondary

His assists are the real ones, the pass that made the goal

66.7% of his assists are primary, the pass that actually made the goal.

10 primary of 15 assists

One teammate is responsible for most of his goals

11 different teammates have assisted on his 16 goals.

Cates (7), Zegras (4), Michkov (3), York (2)

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