Brett Pesce Teammate Impact NHL Stats & Career Totals

Luke Hughes is the partner who brings the best out of him

Pesce is at his best beside Hughes: 54.5% of the expected goals together against 39.1% apart.

377 minutes together, 254 minutes apart

Teammates tend to play worse when he is on their line

Gritsyuk does better away from him: 56.8% of the expected goals apart against 45.7% together.

146 minutes together, 745 minutes apart

It stops working when he is paired with Paul Cotter

The pairing with Cotter is the one that costs him: 42.1% of the expected goals together, 50.3% apart.

104 minutes together, 527 minutes apart

Teammates play better with him than they do without him

Hughes is a different player beside him: 54.5% of the expected goals with Pesce, 50.3% without him.

377 minutes together, 900 minutes apart for Hughes

He and Jesper Bratt are the pair that scares the other team

The pairing that generates most is Pesce and Bratt: 6.48 expected goals an hour.

176 minutes together at 5v5

Luke Hughes is the partner his coach keeps going back to

He spends more 5v5 time with Hughes than anyone: 377 minutes, worth 54.5% of the expected goals.

10 goals for, 11 against together

Nothing gets through when he and Arseny Gritsyuk are out together

He gives up least beside Gritsyuk: 4.15 expected goals against an hour.

146 minutes together at 5v5

Dawson Mercer is who he kills penalties with, almost every time

Killing penalties he is tightest with Mercer: 9.94 expected goals against an hour.

31 minutes together short-handed

This is the group his coach trusts with the game

The five the coach goes back to is Pesce with Hischier, Hughes, Meier and Mercer, 42 minutes at 5v5.

60.2% of the expected goals, 2 goals for and 1 against

This is the group sent out to kill the hard ones

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

2.23 against an hour, 5.7 expected

This is the group that wins him his minutes

His best five is with Brown, Glass, Gritsyuk and Hughes: 63.2% of the expected goals over 34 minutes.

0 goals for, 0 against, 57.7% of the attempts

His coach keeps shuffling the players around him

Pesce has been shuffled through 28 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

11 teammates have played at least 100 5v5 minutes with Pesce this season.

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

Timo Meier is the teammate he sets up more than anyone

He has helped on 2 of Timo Meier's goals, 33.3% of his own assists.

1 primary, 1 secondary

His line wastes the chances it works so hard to create

His line is being outscored despite the play: 36.6% of the goals off 49.1% of the expected goals.

12.5 points of goal share below expectation

His results are about what the underlying play deserves

His 5v5 on-ice percentages add to 95.5, running cold and likely to correct.

5.0% shooting and 90.5% goaltending behind him, 230th of 246 defencemen

His team keeps getting outscored while he is out there

The Devils score 36.6% of the 5v5 goals with Pesce out there.

15 for, 26 against, 227th of 246 defencemen

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

The Devils are down 16 goals with Pesce on the ice.

19 for, 35 against, 185th of 246 defencemen

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

52.3% of the 5v5 shots on goal go his way when Pesce is on.

301 for, 275 against, 59th of 246 defencemen

His side controls the puck while he is out there

Pesce's line owns 52.0% of the 5v5 shot attempts.

612 for, 566 against, 61st of 246 defencemen

Almost nothing comes back the other way with him out there

Opponents get 53.83 shot attempts an hour with Pesce on the ice at 5v5.

66th of 246 defencemen

The kill leaks goals when he is the one out there

Short-handed he concedes 10.72 expected goals an hour.

5 goals against in 90 minutes, 108th of 156 defencemen

He gives up about what an average skater gives up

He gives up 4.45 expected goals an hour at 5v5.

140th of 246 defencemen

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

At 5v5 the Devils generate 49.1% of the expected goals with Pesce on the ice.

45.1 xGF to 46.7 xGA over 631 minutes, 130th of 246 defencemen

The offence runs at about its usual level with him

The Devils create 4.29 expected goals an hour at 5v5 with Pesce on.

127th of 246 defencemen

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

He draws 2:44 of penalty kill time a game, 37th among defencemen.

12.0% of his total ice time

His coach leans on him more than almost anyone

Pesce plays 20:18 a night, 92nd among defencemen.

751 minutes across 37 games

He throws himself in front of pucks more than almost anyone

He blocks 6.39 shots an hour of ice time.

31st in the league

He avoids the physical side of the game

He finishes 0.88 checks an hour.

855th in the league

He almost never hands the puck to the other team

He gives it away 1.84 times an hour.

839th most giveaways an hour

The scoreboard moves the wrong way when he plays

He is -11 on the season.

805th in the league

He takes the puck off people more than almost anyone

He takes the puck back 1.28 times an hour.

161st in the league

He stays out of the box, which his coach can rely on

He takes 0.48 penalty minutes an hour.

799th most penalty minutes an hour

He rarely puts a puck on net of his own

He puts 3.6 shots on goal an hour.

712th in the league

The points are not coming for him this season

Pesce produces 0.56 points an hour of ice time.

772nd in the league

The goals have dried up for him this season

He scores 0.08 goals an hour of ice time.

727th in the league

He finishes plays rather than starting them

He sets up 0.48 assists an hour of ice time.

696th in the league

Defenders get in front of a huge share of his shots

25.3% of everything he shoots gets blocked before it arrives.

22 of 87 attempts, 2nd of 241 defencemen

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

28.7% of what he shoots comes from the slot.

25 attempts from inside the home plate, 28th of 241 defencemen

His game is played in the hardest part of the ice

28.7% of his attempts come from inside 25 feet.

25 of 87 attempts, 29th of 241 defencemen

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

He fires 6.95 attempts an hour of ice time.

87 attempts in 751 minutes, 211th of 246 defencemen

He barely shoots the puck across a whole season

Pesce has taken 87 shot attempts this season.

44 on goal, 20 missed, 22 blocked, 206th of 241 defencemen

When he shoots, it tends to be on target

69.2% of his unblocked attempts actually hit the net.

45 of 65 unblocked, 39th of 241 defencemen

He gets almost nothing from long range

52.9% of his attempts are fired from beyond 45 feet.

46 long-range attempts, 190th of 241 defencemen

There is one shot he goes to more than any other

41.4% of his attempts are the wrist shot.

36 attempts, 1 goals

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

66.7% of his attempts come from the right side.

6 left, 23 middle, 58 right

He shoots from about where everyone else shoots from

His average attempt comes from 41.4 feet.

87 located attempts, 121st of 241 defencemen

No goalie has seen more of him than this one

No goalie has seen more of him than Jet Greaves: 7 attempts, 0 goals.

0.0% conversion

One opponent goes out of his way to run him

Mathieu Olivier has hit him 4 times, more than any other opponent.

hits absorbed, from play-by-play

The chances in tight are not going in for him

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

0 goals on 25 close attempts, 144th of 221 defencemen

His shooting has gone cold this season

He converts 2.2% of the shots he puts on goal.

1 goals on 45 shots, 196th of 241 defencemen

He scores about what his chances are worth

Pesce has 1 goals off 3.3 expected: 2.3 short of what the chances say.

144th of 241 defencemen

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