Brett Howden Teammate Impact NHL Stats & Career Totals

Mark Stone is the partner who brings the best out of him

Howden is at his best beside Stone: 59.8% of the expected goals together against 47.9% apart.

143 minutes together, 587 minutes apart

It stops working when he is paired with Brandon Saad

The pairing with Saad is the one that costs him: 40.6% of the expected goals together, 52.1% apart.

103 minutes together, 627 minutes apart

Teammates tend to play worse when he is on their line

Saad does better away from him: 54.7% of the expected goals apart against 40.6% together.

103 minutes together, 496 minutes apart

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

Only 3 of his 15 regular 5v5 partners post a better expected-goal share beside Howden than away from him.

partners with at least 100 minutes together and apart

Teammates play better with him than they do without him

Stone is a different player beside him: 59.8% of the expected goals with Howden, 56.2% without him.

143 minutes together, 660 minutes apart for Stone

He and Mark Stone are the pair that scares the other team

The pairing that generates most is Howden and Stone: 5.26 expected goals an hour.

143 minutes together at 5v5

Noah Hanifin is the partner his coach keeps going back to

He spends more 5v5 time with Hanifin than anyone: 263 minutes, worth 49.4% of the expected goals.

10 goals for, 17 against together

The goals go his team's way when Kaedan Korczak is out there with him

With Korczak on the ice too, the Golden Knights have outscored opponents 9 to 5 at 5v5.

64.3% goal share over 199 minutes

Nothing gets through when he and Braeden Bowman are out together

He gives up least beside Bowman: 3.37 expected goals against an hour.

117 minutes together at 5v5

This is the group his coach trusts with the game

The five the coach goes back to is Howden with Marner, McNabb, Stone and Theodore, 35 minutes at 5v5.

50.1% of the expected goals, 1 goal for and 2 against

This is the group that wins him his minutes

His best five is with Hanifin, Marner, Stone and Whitecloud: 68.2% of the expected goals over 30 minutes.

2 goals for, 2 against, 60.3% of the attempts

His coach keeps shuffling the players around him

Howden has been shuffled through 36 different five-man units, and only 2 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

15 teammates have played at least 100 5v5 minutes with Howden this season.

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

Mitch Marner is the teammate who sets him up more than anyone

Mitch Marner has assisted on 3 of his 12 goals, 25.0% of them.

2 primary, 1 secondary

Brandon Saad is the teammate he sets up more than anyone

He has helped on 2 of Brandon Saad's goals, 20.0% of his own assists.

1 primary, 1 secondary

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

40.0% of his assists are primary, the pass that actually made the goal.

4 primary of 10 assists

One teammate is responsible for most of his goals

15 different teammates have assisted on his 12 goals.

Marner (3), Kolesar (3), Theodore (2), Hertl (2)

His results are about what the underlying play deserves

His 5v5 on-ice percentages add to 96.9, running cold and likely to correct.

9.3% shooting and 87.5% goaltending behind him, 384th of 458 forwards

Teams struggle to score on him when he is killing penalties

Short-handed he concedes 7.83 expected goals an hour.

6 goals against in 58 minutes, 19th of 180 forwards

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

The Golden Knights are down 11 goals with Howden on the ice.

35 for, 46 against, 368th of 465 forwards

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

53.3% of the 5v5 shots on goal go his way when Howden is on.

321 for, 281 against, 82nd of 458 forwards

Almost nothing comes back the other way with him out there

Opponents get 53.97 shot attempts an hour with Howden on the ice at 5v5.

123rd of 458 forwards

Very little gets through when he is on the ice

He gives up 4.12 expected goals an hour at 5v5.

137th of 458 forwards

His line wastes the chances it works so hard to create

His line is being outscored despite the play: 46.2% of the goals off 50.4% of the expected goals.

4.2 points of goal share below expectation

His team keeps getting outscored while he is out there

The Golden Knights score 46.2% of the 5v5 goals with Howden out there.

30 for, 35 against, 287th of 458 forwards

The offence runs at about its usual level with him

The Golden Knights create 4.18 expected goals an hour at 5v5 with Howden on.

270th of 458 forwards

Neither team controls the puck when he is on

Howden's line owns 50.2% of the 5v5 shot attempts.

660 for, 656 against, 178th of 458 forwards

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

At 5v5 the Golden Knights generate 50.4% of the expected goals with Howden on the ice.

50.8 xGF to 50.1 xGA over 729 minutes, 208th of 458 forwards

He is kept off the penalty kill

He draws 1:09 of penalty kill time a game, 169th among forwards.

6.7% of his total ice time

His coach leans on him more than almost anyone

Howden plays 14:53 a night, 240th among forwards.

864 minutes across 58 games

Blocking shots is not part of how he plays

He blocks 1.32 shots an hour of ice time.

793rd in the league

How he gets his points says what kind of player he is

Only 13.6% of his points come on the power play: this is even-strength production.

3 of 22 points with the man advantage

He spends too much time in the penalty box

He takes 2.85 penalty minutes an hour.

174th most penalty minutes an hour

The scoreboard moves the wrong way when he plays

He is -9 on the season.

778th in the league

He gives the puck away more than he should

13 takeaways against 47 giveaways: he loses it far more often than he wins it back.

0.28 takeaways per giveaway

He scores at a rate very few players match

He scores 0.83 goals an hour of ice time.

241st in the league

He plays a heavy game and the other team feels it

He finishes 6.95 checks an hour.

239th in the league

He wins the draws his team needs him to win

He wins 50.3% of his draws.

146th in the league

He hands the puck over more than he should

He gives it away 3.27 times an hour.

327th most giveaways an hour

He is one of the reasons the man advantage scores

On the power play he produces 0.21 points an hour.

328th in the league

He puts up points at a rate very few match

Howden produces 1.53 points an hour of ice time.

365th in the league

He rarely puts a puck on net of his own

He puts 4.38 shots on goal an hour.

584th in the league

He wins the puck back about as often as most

He takes the puck back 0.9 times an hour.

412th in the league

He starts and finishes plays in about equal measure

He sets up 0.69 assists an hour of ice time.

547th in the league

Defenders get in front of a huge share of his shots

14.2% of everything he shoots gets blocked before it arrives.

17 of 120 attempts, 22nd of 468 forwards

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

He fires 8.34 attempts an hour of ice time.

120 attempts in 864 minutes, 424th of 465 forwards

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

64.2% of what he shoots comes from the slot.

77 attempts from inside the home plate, 57th of 468 forwards

His game is played in the hardest part of the ice

64.2% of his attempts come from inside 25 feet.

77 of 120 attempts, 58th of 468 forwards

He can beat goalies from further out than most players

8.3% of his attempts are fired from beyond 45 feet.

10 long-range attempts, 89th of 468 forwards

He gets to the hard areas rather than firing from range

His average attempt comes from 23.4 feet.

120 located attempts, 89th of 468 forwards

There is one shot he goes to more than any other

40.8% of his attempts are the wrist shot.

49 attempts, 6 goals

He barely shoots the puck across a whole season

Howden has taken 120 shot attempts this season.

54 on goal, 37 missed, 17 blocked, 347th of 468 forwards

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

43.3% of his attempts come from the middle lane.

48 left, 52 middle, 20 right

A lot of his shots miss the net entirely

64.1% of his unblocked attempts actually hit the net.

66 of 103 unblocked, 280th of 468 forwards

He owns this goalie, and the numbers are not close

Howden has scored 1 times on Scott Wedgewood 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

Joel Hofer has turned him away every time: 6 attempts, no goals.

0.0% conversion

One team seems to bring the best out of him

He has 2 goals against the Sharks this season.

13 attempts against them

No goalie has seen more of him than this one

No goalie has seen more of him than Alex Nedeljkovic: 9 attempts, 1 goal.

11.1% conversion

He wins the draw against this centre almost every time

He wins 75.0% of his draws against Mason McTavish.

6 of 8 faceoffs

This centre beats him on the draw almost every time

Jean-Gabriel Pageau beats him on the draw: he wins only 14.3% of them.

2 of 14 faceoffs

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

He has drawn 2 penalties on Darnell Nurse.

penalties drawn, from play-by-play

He keeps taking penalties against this one opponent

Darnell Nurse has drawn 2 penalties on him.

penalties taken, from play-by-play

The chances he gets in tight almost always go in

From inside 25 feet he buries 13.0% of his attempts.

10 goals on 77 close attempts, 49th of 468 forwards

A remarkable share of his shots end up in the net

He converts 18.2% of the shots he puts on goal.

12 goals on 66 shots, 51st of 468 forwards

There is a range from which his goals almost always come

His goals average 14.8 feet out, and the longest went in from 28.

12 goals located by coordinate

He scores more than the chances he gets should produce

Howden has 12 goals off 9.4 expected: 2.6 more than the chances alone say.

145th of 468 forwards

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