Brock Faber Teammate Impact NHL Stats & Career Totals

It stops working when he is paired with Nico Sturm

The pairing with Sturm is the one that costs him: 37.7% of the expected goals together, 52.6% apart.

134 minutes together, 1,463 minutes apart

Teammates tend to play worse when he is on their line

Sturm does better away from him: 52.8% of the expected goals apart against 37.7% together.

134 minutes together, 307 minutes apart

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

Faber is at his best beside Hughes: 54.6% of the expected goals together against 47.2% apart.

816 minutes together, 782 minutes apart

Teammates play better with him than they do without him

Zuccarello is a different player beside him: 54.2% of the expected goals with Faber, 47.2% without him.

396 minutes together, 454 minutes apart for Zuccarello

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

10 of his 13 regular 5v5 partners post a better expected-goal share beside Faber than away from him.

partners with at least 100 minutes together and apart

He and Mats Zuccarello are the pair that scares the other team

The pairing that generates most is Faber and Zuccarello: 5.41 expected goals an hour.

396 minutes together at 5v5

Quinn Hughes is the partner his coach keeps going back to

He spends more 5v5 time with Hughes than anyone: 816 minutes, worth 54.6% of the expected goals.

52 goals for, 48 against together

The goals go his team's way when Marcus Johansson is out there with him

With Johansson on the ice too, the Wild have outscored opponents 30 to 12 at 5v5.

71.4% goal share over 400 minutes

Nothing gets through when he and Danila Yurov are out together

He gives up least beside Yurov: 4.21 expected goals against an hour.

319 minutes together at 5v5

Jared Spurgeon is who he runs the power play with, almost every time

On the power play his best partner is Spurgeon: 83.8% of the expected goals over 41 minutes.

6 goals for, 1 against together

Yakov Trenin is who he kills penalties with, almost every time

Killing penalties he is tightest with Trenin: 7.03 expected goals against an hour.

45 minutes together short-handed

This group gets caved in every time it goes out

The five that struggles is with Hughes, Kaprizov, Yurov and Zuccarello: 36.1% of the expected goals.

2 goals for, 5 against over 56 minutes

This is the group that wins him his minutes

His best five is with Hughes, Tarasenko, Trenin and Yurov: 64.7% of the expected goals over 51 minutes.

3 goals for, 1 against, 47.4% of the attempts

This is the group his coach trusts with the game

The five the coach goes back to is Faber with Hartman, Hughes, Kaprizov and Zuccarello, 191 minutes at 5v5.

61.0% of the expected goals, 15 goals for and 11 against

This is the group the power play actually runs through

His power-play unit is Hartman, Johansson, Spurgeon and Tarasenko: 0 goals in 19 minutes.

0.0 goals an hour, 1.6 expected

This is the group sent out to kill the hard ones

His most used kill is with Boldy, Brodin and Eriksson Ek: 1 goal against in 25 minutes.

2.41 against an hour, 3.6 expected

His coach keeps shuffling the players around him

Faber has played 60 different five-man units at 5v5, 7 of them for real minutes.

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

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

14 teammates have played at least 100 5v5 minutes with Faber this season.

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

Marcus Johansson is the teammate who sets him up more than anyone

Marcus Johansson has assisted on 5 of his 15 goals, 33.3% of them.

4 primary, 1 secondary

Ryan Hartman is the teammate he sets up more than anyone

He has helped on 6 of Ryan Hartman's goals, 16.7% of his own assists.

2 primary, 4 secondary

His assists are the usual mix of first and second passes

52.8% of his assists are primary, the pass that actually made the goal.

19 primary of 36 assists

One teammate is responsible for most of his goals

13 different teammates have assisted on his 15 goals.

Johansson (5), Boldy (4), Kaprizov (4), Hughes (3)

The offence comes alive when he steps on the ice

The Wild create 4.91 expected goals an hour at 5v5 with Faber on.

35th of 246 defencemen

The other team gets whatever it wants when he is on

Opponents get 61.37 shot attempts an hour with Faber on the ice at 5v5.

199th of 246 defencemen

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

The Wild are up 7 goals with Faber on the ice.

115 for, 108 against, 46th of 245 defencemen

The power play stalls when he is the one out there

On the power play his unit generates 8.52 expected goals an hour.

13 goals in 85 minutes, 65th of 85 defencemen

His results are about what the underlying play deserves

His 5v5 on-ice percentages add to 100.0, close to neutral.

9.7% shooting and 90.3% goaltending behind him, 131st of 246 defencemen

The defence springs leaks when he is out there

He gives up 4.7 expected goals an hour at 5v5.

173rd of 246 defencemen

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

51.4% of the 5v5 shots on goal go his way when Faber is on.

814 for, 770 against, 73rd of 246 defencemen

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

At 5v5 the Wild generate 51.1% of the expected goals with Faber on the ice.

130.7 xGF to 125.0 xGA over 1,597 minutes, 94th of 246 defencemen

Goals go both ways evenly when he is on

The Wild score 51.3% of the 5v5 goals with Faber out there.

79 for, 75 against, 96th of 246 defencemen

Neither team controls the puck when he is on

Faber's line owns 50.1% of the 5v5 shot attempts.

1,640 for, 1,634 against, 104th of 246 defencemen

The kill is about average with him on it

Short-handed he concedes 10.03 expected goals an hour.

24 goals against in 187 minutes, 78th of 156 defencemen

His coach leans on him more than almost anyone

Faber plays 24:40 a night, 14th among defencemen.

1,974 minutes across 80 games

He is not part of the power play plan

He draws 1:12 of power play time a game, 78th among defencemen.

4.3% of his total ice time

He takes an ordinary share of the penalty killing

He draws 2:24 of penalty kill time a game, 63rd among defencemen.

9.5% of his total ice time

The scoreboard moves his team's way when he plays

He is +18 on the season.

47th in the league

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

He has 2 short-handed points this season.

52nd in the league

He avoids the physical side of the game

He finishes 1 checks an hour.

840th in the league

He throws himself in front of pucks more than almost anyone

He blocks 4.53 shots an hour of ice time.

163rd in the league

He gives the puck away more than he should

36 takeaways against 93 giveaways: he loses it far more often than he wins it back.

0.39 takeaways per giveaway

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

He sets up 1.09 assists an hour of ice time.

280th in the league

He takes the puck off people more than almost anyone

He takes the puck back 1.09 times an hour.

258th in the league

He is one of the reasons the man advantage scores

On the power play he produces 0.33 points an hour.

273rd in the league

He puts up points at a rate very few match

Faber produces 1.55 points an hour of ice time.

364th in the league

He scores at about the rate you would expect

He scores 0.46 goals an hour of ice time.

448th in the league

He takes about as many penalties as anyone

He takes 1.19 penalty minutes an hour.

551st most penalty minutes an hour

He gives the puck away about as often as most

He gives it away 2.83 times an hour.

493rd most giveaways an hour

He puts about as many pucks on net as anyone

He puts 5.2 shots on goal an hour.

463rd in the league

Defenders get in front of a huge share of his shots

29.2% of everything he shoots gets blocked before it arrives.

105 of 360 attempts, 15th of 241 defencemen

He shoots more pucks over a season than almost anybody

Faber has taken 360 shot attempts this season.

158 on goal, 82 missed, 105 blocked, 23rd of 241 defencemen

There is one shot he goes to more than any other

45.6% of his attempts are the wrist shot.

164 attempts, 7 goals

When he shoots, it tends to be on target

67.8% of his unblocked attempts actually hit the net.

173 of 255 unblocked, 59th of 241 defencemen

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

50.6% of his attempts come from the right side.

65 left, 113 middle, 182 right

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

He fires 10.94 attempts an hour of ice time.

360 attempts in 1,974 minutes, 74th of 245 defencemen

Most of his shots come from a long way out

His average attempt comes from 42.1 feet.

360 located attempts, 143rd of 241 defencemen

He gets almost nothing from long range

49.7% of his attempts are fired from beyond 45 feet.

179 long-range attempts, 144th of 241 defencemen

He takes an ordinary share of his shots from close range

22.2% of what he shoots comes from the slot.

80 attempts from inside the home plate, 136th of 241 defencemen

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

22.8% of his attempts come from inside 25 feet.

82 of 360 attempts, 130th of 241 defencemen

He owns this goalie, and the numbers are not close

Faber has scored 2 times on Andrei Vasilevskiy this season, more than on any other goaltender.

2 goals on 6 attempts, 33.3%

This goalie has his number and he cannot solve him

Jake Oettinger has turned him away every time: 17 attempts, no goals.

0.0% conversion

One team seems to bring the best out of him

He has 2 goals against the Jets this season.

19 attempts against them

No goalie has seen more of him than this one

No goalie has seen more of him than Jake Oettinger: 17 attempts, 0 goals.

0.0% conversion

There is one team he simply cannot get going against

The Stars have held him without a goal on 25 attempts.

the most attempts he has taken against a club without scoring

He keeps taking penalties against this one opponent

Jeremy Lauzon has drawn 2 penalties on him.

penalties taken, from play-by-play

He scores more than the chances he gets should produce

Faber has 15 goals off 12.2 expected: 2.8 more than the chances alone say.

11th of 241 defencemen

A remarkable share of his shots end up in the net

He converts 8.7% of the shots he puts on goal.

15 goals on 173 shots, 43rd of 241 defencemen

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

His deadliest shot is the snap shot: 10.4% of them go in.

5 goals on 48 attempts

There is a range from which his goals almost always come

His goals average 38.7 feet out, and the longest went in from 61.

15 goals located by coordinate

The chances he gets in tight almost always go in

From inside 25 feet he buries 3.7% of his attempts.

3 goals on 82 close attempts, 66th of 221 defencemen

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