Brenden Dillon Matchups NHL Stats & Career Totals

No goalie has seen more of him than this one

No goalie has seen more of him than Logan Thompson: 7 attempts, 0 goals.

0.0% conversion

There is one opponent he goes looking for all night

Dillon has finished his check on Connor Bedard 4 times, more than anyone.

hits delivered, from play-by-play

He gets under this opponent's skin and draws the penalty

He has drawn 2 penalties on Scott Sabourin.

penalties drawn, from play-by-play

He keeps taking penalties against this one opponent

Josh Anderson has drawn 2 penalties on him.

penalties taken, from play-by-play

He does not shoot, he looks to pass or carry instead

He fires 5.24 attempts an hour of ice time.

129 attempts in 1,476 minutes, 243rd of 245 defencemen

He gets almost nothing from long range

56.6% of his attempts are fired from beyond 45 feet.

73 long-range attempts, 222nd of 241 defencemen

Most of his shots come from a long way out

His average attempt comes from 45.1 feet.

129 located attempts, 221st of 241 defencemen

He rarely gets into the dangerous areas of the ice

18.6% of his attempts come from inside 25 feet.

24 of 129 attempts, 199th of 241 defencemen

He works the outside and rarely gets to the front of the net

18.6% of what he shoots comes from the slot.

24 attempts from inside the home plate, 194th of 241 defencemen

There is one shot he goes to more than any other

27.1% of his attempts are the wrist shot.

35 attempts, 1 goals

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

59.7% of his attempts come from the left side.

77 left, 41 middle, 11 right

He barely shoots the puck across a whole season

Dillon has taken 129 shot attempts this season.

52 on goal, 29 missed, 45 blocked, 167th of 241 defencemen

When he shoots, it tends to be on target

65.5% of his unblocked attempts actually hit the net.

55 of 84 unblocked, 85th of 241 defencemen

Defenders get in front of a huge share of his shots

34.9% of everything he shoots gets blocked before it arrives.

45 of 129 attempts, 85th of 241 defencemen

The chances in tight are not going in for him

From inside 25 feet he buries 0.0% of his attempts.

0 goals on 24 close attempts, 144th of 221 defencemen

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

His deadliest shot is the slap shot: 4.5% of them go in.

1 goals on 22 attempts

There is a range from which his goals almost always come

His goals average 45.6 feet out, and the longest went in from 65.

3 goals located by coordinate

He scores more than the chances he gets should produce

Dillon has 3 goals off 4.0 expected: 1.0 short of what the chances say.

86th of 241 defencemen

He shoots at about the league's usual rate

He converts 5.5% of the shots he puts on goal.

3 goals on 55 shots, 123rd of 241 defencemen

He rarely puts a puck on net of his own

He puts 2.24 shots on goal an hour.

878th in the league

The scoreboard moves the wrong way when he plays

He is -13 on the season.

843rd in the league

He spends too much time in the penalty box

He takes 3.62 penalty minutes an hour.

130th most penalty minutes an hour

He rarely wins the puck back on his own

He takes the puck back 0.41 times an hour.

786th in the league

He chips in points even when his team is a man down

He has 1 short-handed points this season.

182nd in the league

He plays a heavy game and the other team feels it

He finishes 8.22 checks an hour.

192nd in the league

He throws himself in front of pucks more than almost anyone

He blocks 4.19 shots an hour of ice time.

208th in the league

He gives the puck away more than he should

10 takeaways against 56 giveaways: he loses it far more often than he wins it back.

0.18 takeaways per giveaway

He almost never hands the puck to the other team

He gives it away 2.28 times an hour.

725th most giveaways an hour

The points are not coming for him this season

Dillon produces 0.61 points an hour of ice time.

758th in the league

The goals have dried up for him this season

He scores 0.12 goals an hour of ice time.

690th in the league

He finishes plays rather than starting them

He sets up 0.49 assists an hour of ice time.

687th in the league

His line wastes the chances it works so hard to create

His line is being outscored despite the play: 38.2% of the goals off 50.6% of the expected goals.

12.4 points of goal share below expectation

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

The Devils are down 39 goals with Dillon on the ice.

53 for, 92 against, 238th of 245 defencemen

His results are about what the underlying play deserves

His 5v5 on-ice percentages add to 95.2, running cold and likely to correct.

6.9% shooting and 88.2% goaltending behind him, 232nd of 245 defencemen

The kill leaks goals when he is the one out there

Short-handed he concedes 11.97 expected goals an hour.

26 goals against in 183 minutes, 143rd of 156 defencemen

His team keeps getting outscored while he is out there

The Devils score 38.2% of the 5v5 goals with Dillon out there.

39 for, 63 against, 222nd of 245 defencemen

Very little gets through when he is on the ice

He gives up 4.17 expected goals an hour at 5v5.

75th of 245 defencemen

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

51.2% of the 5v5 shots on goal go his way when Dillon is on.

563 for, 536 against, 78th of 245 defencemen

Almost nothing comes back the other way with him out there

Opponents get 55.22 shot attempts an hour with Dillon on the ice at 5v5.

94th of 245 defencemen

Neither team controls the puck when he is on

Dillon's line owns 50.3% of the 5v5 shot attempts.

1,173 for, 1,160 against, 96th of 245 defencemen

The run of play is about even when he is on the ice

At 5v5 the Devils generate 50.6% of the expected goals with Dillon on the ice.

89.6 xGF to 87.6 xGA over 1,260 minutes, 101st of 245 defencemen

The offence runs at about its usual level with him

The Devils create 4.26 expected goals an hour at 5v5 with Dillon on.

134th of 245 defencemen

He is one of the players his coach trusts to kill penalties

He draws 2:24 of penalty kill time a game, 60th among defencemen.

12.4% of his total ice time

He gets a normal share of the minutes

Dillon plays 17:59 a night, 144th among defencemen.

1,476 minutes across 82 games

Nico Hischier is the partner who brings the best out of him

Dillon is at his best beside Hischier: 57.9% of the expected goals together against 47.4% apart.

299 minutes together, 961 minutes apart

It stops working when he is paired with Luke Glendening

The pairing with Glendening is the one that costs him: 35.0% of the expected goals together, 51.8% apart.

139 minutes together, 1,121 minutes apart

Teammates tend to play worse when he is on their line

Hameenaho does better away from him: 47.8% of the expected goals apart against 39.9% together.

129 minutes together, 252 minutes apart

Teammates play better with him than they do without him

Palat is a different player beside him: 48.4% of the expected goals with Dillon, 41.8% without him.

174 minutes together, 165 minutes apart for Palat

He and Nico Hischier are the pair that scares the other team

The pairing that generates most is Dillon and Hischier: 6.18 expected goals an hour.

299 minutes together at 5v5

Simon Nemec is the partner his coach keeps going back to

He spends more 5v5 time with Nemec than anyone: 553 minutes, worth 51.1% of the expected goals.

19 goals for, 28 against together

Nothing gets through when he and Jack Hughes are out together

He gives up least beside Hughes: 3.54 expected goals against an hour.

318 minutes together at 5v5

Brett Pesce is who he kills penalties with, almost every time

Killing penalties he is tightest with Pesce: 10.95 expected goals against an hour.

74 minutes together short-handed

This is the group that wins him his minutes

His best five is with Hischier, Meier, Mercer and Nemec: 71.7% of the expected goals over 75 minutes.

5 goals for, 7 against, 60.8% of the attempts

This is the group his coach trusts with the game

The five the coach goes back to is Dillon with Hischier, Meier, Mercer and Nemec, 75 minutes at 5v5.

71.7% of the expected goals, 5 goals for and 7 against

This is the group sent out to kill the hard ones

His most used kill is with Brown, Glendening and Pesce: 1 goal against in 27 minutes.

2.23 against an hour, 5.7 expected

This group gets caved in every time it goes out

The five that struggles is with Bjugstad, Cotter, Nemec and Tsyplakov: 27.8% of the expected goals.

2 goals for, 2 against over 30 minutes

His coach keeps shuffling the players around him

Dillon has been shuffled through 50 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

17 teammates have played at least 100 5v5 minutes with Dillon this season.

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

Jesper Bratt is the teammate he sets up more than anyone

He has helped on 2 of Jesper Bratt's goals, 16.7% of his own assists.

1 primary, 1 secondary

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

33.3% of his assists are primary, the pass that actually made the goal.

4 primary of 12 assists

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