Dylan Samberg Teammate Impact NHL Stats & Career Totals

Teammates play better with him than they do without him

Koepke is a different player beside him: 54.8% of the expected goals with Samberg, 41.3% without him.

153 minutes together, 416 minutes apart for Koepke

Gabriel Vilardi is the partner who brings the best out of him

Samberg is at his best beside Vilardi: 55.3% of the expected goals together against 49.1% apart.

333 minutes together, 885 minutes apart

It stops working when he is paired with Alex Iafallo

The pairing with Iafallo is the one that costs him: 47.5% of the expected goals together, 51.8% apart.

345 minutes together, 872 minutes apart

Teammates tend to play worse when he is on their line

Namestnikov does better away from him: 52.5% of the expected goals apart against 49.2% together.

180 minutes together, 492 minutes apart

He and Cole Koepke are the pair that scares the other team

The pairing that generates most is Samberg and Koepke: 5.15 expected goals an hour.

153 minutes together at 5v5

Adam Lowry is the partner his coach keeps going back to

He spends more 5v5 time with Lowry than anyone: 423 minutes, worth 49.3% of the expected goals.

13 goals for, 14 against together

The goals go his team's way when Tanner Pearson is out there with him

With Pearson on the ice too, the Jets have outscored opponents 8 to 4 at 5v5.

66.7% goal share over 132 minutes

Nothing gets through when he and Gabriel Vilardi are out together

He gives up least beside Vilardi: 3.24 expected goals against an hour.

333 minutes together at 5v5

Neal Pionk is who he kills penalties with, almost every time

Killing penalties he is tightest with Pionk: 10.29 expected goals against an hour.

61 minutes together short-handed

This group gets caved in every time it goes out

The five that struggles is with Connor, Iafallo, Pionk and Scheifele: 28.4% of the expected goals.

2 goals for, 2 against over 54 minutes

This is the group that wins him his minutes

His best five is with Lowry, Perfetti, Salomonsson and Vilardi: 66.2% of the expected goals over 51 minutes.

1 goal for, 1 against, 55.8% of the attempts

This is the group his coach trusts with the game

The five the coach goes back to is Samberg with Connor, Iafallo, Pionk and Scheifele, 54 minutes at 5v5.

28.4% of the expected goals, 2 goals for and 2 against

This is the group sent out to kill the hard ones

His most used kill is with Barron, DeMelo and Koepke: 5 goals against in 28 minutes.

10.79 against an hour, 6.1 expected

His coach keeps shuffling the players around him

Samberg has played 51 different five-man units at 5v5, 5 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

16 teammates have played at least 100 5v5 minutes with Samberg this season.

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

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

23.1% of his assists are primary, the pass that actually made the goal.

3 primary of 13 assists

Kyle Connor is the teammate he sets up more than anyone

He has helped on 3 of Kyle Connor's goals, 23.1% of his own assists.

1 primary, 2 secondary

Almost nothing comes back the other way with him out there

Opponents get 52.15 shot attempts an hour with Samberg on the ice at 5v5.

38th of 246 defencemen

The kill leaks goals when he is the one out there

Short-handed he concedes 11.21 expected goals an hour.

21 goals against in 166 minutes, 126th of 156 defencemen

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

The Jets are down 18 goals with Samberg on the ice.

52 for, 70 against, 192nd of 245 defencemen

His results are about what the underlying play deserves

His 5v5 on-ice percentages add to 99.1, close to neutral.

8.0% shooting and 91.1% goaltending behind him, 161st of 246 defencemen

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

51.5% of the 5v5 shots on goal go his way when Samberg is on.

524 for, 493 against, 70th of 246 defencemen

Very little gets through when he is on the ice

He gives up 4.16 expected goals an hour at 5v5.

75th of 246 defencemen

His side controls the puck while he is out there

Samberg's line owns 51.2% of the 5v5 shot attempts.

1,111 for, 1,058 against, 78th of 246 defencemen

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

At 5v5 the Jets generate 50.6% of the expected goals with Samberg on the ice.

86.5 xGF to 84.5 xGA over 1,217 minutes, 102nd of 246 defencemen

The offence runs at about its usual level with him

The Jets create 4.26 expected goals an hour at 5v5 with Samberg on.

135th of 246 defencemen

Goals go both ways evenly when he is on

The Jets score 48.8% of the 5v5 goals with Samberg out there.

42 for, 44 against, 132nd of 246 defencemen

His coach leans on him more than almost anyone

Samberg plays 21:49 a night, 56th among defencemen.

1,440 minutes across 66 games

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

He draws 2:43 of penalty kill time a game, 38th among defencemen.

11.5% of his total ice time

He throws himself in front of pucks more than almost anyone

He blocks 4.79 shots an hour of ice time.

139th in the league

He gives the puck away more than he should

27 takeaways against 66 giveaways: he loses it far more often than he wins it back.

0.41 takeaways per giveaway

The scoreboard moves his team's way when he plays

He is +5 on the season.

212th in the league

He rarely puts a puck on net of his own

He puts 3.58 shots on goal an hour.

715th in the league

He takes the puck off people more than almost anyone

He takes the puck back 1.12 times an hour.

232nd in the league

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

He takes 0.58 penalty minutes an hour.

771st most penalty minutes an hour

The points are not coming for him this season

Samberg produces 0.58 points an hour of ice time.

764th in the league

The goals have dried up for him this season

He scores 0.04 goals an hour of ice time.

746th in the league

He avoids the physical side of the game

He finishes 2.21 checks an hour.

657th in the league

He finishes plays rather than starting them

He sets up 0.54 assists an hour of ice time.

660th in the league

He gives the puck away about as often as most

He gives it away 2.75 times an hour.

545th most giveaways an hour

Most of his shots come from a long way out

His average attempt comes from 44.7 feet.

208 located attempts, 214th of 241 defencemen

He gets almost nothing from long range

54.3% of his attempts are fired from beyond 45 feet.

113 long-range attempts, 205th of 241 defencemen

There is one shot he goes to more than any other

34.6% of his attempts are the wrist shot.

72 attempts, 1 goals

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

63.9% of his attempts come from the left side.

133 left, 47 middle, 28 right

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

20.7% of what he shoots comes from the slot.

43 attempts from inside the home plate, 162nd of 241 defencemen

He rarely gets into the dangerous areas of the ice

21.2% of his attempts come from inside 25 feet.

44 of 208 attempts, 160th of 241 defencemen

He takes about as many shots over a season as anyone

Samberg has taken 208 shot attempts this season.

86 on goal, 47 missed, 74 blocked, 98th of 241 defencemen

About the usual number of his shots get blocked

35.6% of everything he shoots gets blocked before it arrives.

74 of 208 attempts, 98th of 241 defencemen

He hits the net about as often as anyone

64.9% of his unblocked attempts actually hit the net.

87 of 134 unblocked, 102nd of 241 defencemen

He shoots about as often as anyone else

He fires 8.67 attempts an hour of ice time.

208 attempts in 1,440 minutes, 135th of 245 defencemen

He owns this goalie, and the numbers are not close

Samberg has scored 1 times on Spencer Knight this season, more than on any other goaltender.

1 goals on 7 attempts, 14.3%

This goalie has his number and he cannot solve him

Alex Nedeljkovic has turned him away every time: 8 attempts, no goals.

0.0% conversion

No goalie has seen more of him than this one

No goalie has seen more of him than Alex Nedeljkovic: 8 attempts, 0 goals.

0.0% conversion

He keeps taking penalties against this one opponent

Mitch Marner has drawn 2 penalties on him.

penalties taken, from play-by-play

He is not converting the chances he gets

Samberg has 1 goals off 6.2 expected: 5.2 short of what the chances say.

221st of 241 defencemen

His shooting has gone cold this season

He converts 1.1% of the shots he puts on goal.

1 goals on 87 shots, 213th of 241 defencemen

He finishes in tight at about the usual rate

From inside 25 feet he buries 2.3% of his attempts.

1 goals on 44 close attempts, 105th of 221 defencemen

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