Erik Cernak Teammate Impact NHL Stats & Career Totals

It stops working when he is paired with Oliver Bjorkstrand

The pairing with Bjorkstrand is the one that costs him: 44.4% of the expected goals together, 55.1% apart.

170 minutes together, 707 minutes apart

Brandon Hagel is the partner who brings the best out of him

Cernak is at his best beside Hagel: 59.8% of the expected goals together against 50.9% apart.

204 minutes together, 673 minutes apart

Teammates tend to play worse when he is on their line

Bjorkstrand does better away from him: 53.6% of the expected goals apart against 44.4% together.

170 minutes together, 650 minutes apart

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

Only 3 of his 13 regular 5v5 partners post a better expected-goal share beside Cernak than away from him.

partners with at least 100 minutes together and apart

He and Brandon Hagel are the pair that scares the other team

The pairing that generates most is Cernak and Hagel: 5.55 expected goals an hour.

204 minutes together at 5v5

Ryan McDonagh is the partner his coach keeps going back to

He spends more 5v5 time with McDonagh than anyone: 458 minutes, worth 52.5% of the expected goals.

17 goals for, 19 against together

The goals go his team's way when Brandon Hagel is out there with him

With Hagel on the ice too, the Lightning have outscored opponents 15 to 8 at 5v5.

65.2% goal share over 204 minutes

Nothing gets through when he and Charle-Edouard D'Astous are out together

He gives up least beside D'Astous: 3.25 expected goals against an hour.

230 minutes together at 5v5

Anthony Cirelli is who he kills penalties with, almost every time

Killing penalties he is tightest with Cirelli: 8.96 expected goals against an hour.

81 minutes together short-handed

This is the group that wins him his minutes

His best five is with Girgensons, Gourde, Holmberg and McDonagh: 56.0% of the expected goals over 124 minutes.

1 goal for, 6 against, 49.2% of the attempts

This is the group his coach trusts with the game

The five the coach goes back to is Cernak with Girgensons, Gourde, Holmberg and McDonagh, 124 minutes at 5v5.

56.0% of the expected goals, 1 goal for and 6 against

This is the group sent out to kill the hard ones

His most used kill is with Cirelli, Hagel and McDonagh: 1 goal against in 36 minutes.

1.67 against an hour, 5.7 expected

His coach keeps shuffling the players around him

Cernak has been shuffled through 29 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

13 teammates have played at least 100 5v5 minutes with Cernak this season.

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

Nikita Kucherov is the teammate he sets up more than anyone

He has helped on 2 of Nikita Kucherov's goals, 28.6% of his own assists.

1 primary, 1 secondary

Very little gets through when he is on the ice

He gives up 3.77 expected goals an hour at 5v5.

21st of 246 defencemen

Almost nothing comes back the other way with him out there

Opponents get 52.89 shot attempts an hour with Cernak on the ice at 5v5.

45th of 246 defencemen

His line wastes the chances it works so hard to create

His line is being outscored despite the play: 46.1% of the goals off 53.3% of the expected goals.

7.2 points of goal share below expectation

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

At 5v5 the Lightning generate 53.3% of the expected goals with Cernak on the ice.

62.9 xGF to 55.1 xGA over 877 minutes, 50th of 246 defencemen

His results are about what the underlying play deserves

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

10.6% shooting and 88.5% goaltending behind him, 158th of 246 defencemen

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

The Lightning are down 15 goals with Cernak on the ice.

45 for, 60 against, 176th of 245 defencemen

His team keeps getting outscored while he is out there

The Lightning score 46.1% of the 5v5 goals with Cernak out there.

35 for, 41 against, 167th of 246 defencemen

The kill leaks goals when he is the one out there

Short-handed he concedes 10.64 expected goals an hour.

17 goals against in 160 minutes, 103rd of 156 defencemen

His line gets badly outshot when it is out there

48.0% of the 5v5 shots on goal go his way when Cernak is on.

330 for, 357 against, 150th of 246 defencemen

The offence runs at about its usual level with him

The Lightning create 4.3 expected goals an hour at 5v5 with Cernak on.

127th of 246 defencemen

Neither team controls the puck when he is on

Cernak's line owns 49.1% of the 5v5 shot attempts.

745 for, 773 against, 124th of 246 defencemen

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

He draws 2:45 of penalty kill time a game, 34th among defencemen.

14.9% of his total ice time

He gets a normal share of the minutes

Cernak plays 17:36 a night, 159th among defencemen.

1,075 minutes across 61 games

He throws himself in front of pucks more than almost anyone

He blocks 5.53 shots an hour of ice time.

67th in the league

He spends too much time in the penalty box

He takes 4.14 penalty minutes an hour.

96th most penalty minutes an hour

He rarely puts a puck on net of his own

He puts 2.96 shots on goal an hour.

802nd in the league

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

He has 1 short-handed points this season.

166th in the league

He gives the puck away more than he should

15 takeaways against 55 giveaways: he loses it far more often than he wins it back.

0.27 takeaways per giveaway

The scoreboard moves his team's way when he plays

He is +3 on the season.

251st in the league

The points are not coming for him this season

Cernak produces 0.61 points an hour of ice time.

751st in the league

He plays a heavy game and the other team feels it

He finishes 6.32 checks an hour.

271st in the league

He finishes plays rather than starting them

He sets up 0.45 assists an hour of ice time.

718th in the league

The goals have dried up for him this season

He scores 0.17 goals an hour of ice time.

653rd in the league

He gives the puck away about as often as most

He gives it away 3.07 times an hour.

397th most giveaways an hour

He wins the puck back about as often as most

He takes the puck back 0.84 times an hour.

470th in the league

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

He fires 6.87 attempts an hour of ice time.

123 attempts in 1,075 minutes, 215th of 245 defencemen

There is one shot he goes to more than any other

22.8% of his attempts are the wrist shot.

28 attempts, 1 goals

He barely shoots the puck across a whole season

Cernak has taken 123 shot attempts this season.

50 on goal, 27 missed, 43 blocked, 174th of 241 defencemen

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

66.7% of his attempts come from the right side.

12 left, 29 middle, 82 right

He gets almost nothing from long range

51.2% of his attempts are fired from beyond 45 feet.

63 long-range attempts, 162nd of 241 defencemen

When he shoots, it tends to be on target

66.2% of his unblocked attempts actually hit the net.

53 of 80 unblocked, 77th of 241 defencemen

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

25.2% of what he shoots comes from the slot.

31 attempts from inside the home plate, 82nd of 241 defencemen

His game is played in the hardest part of the ice

25.2% of his attempts come from inside 25 feet.

31 of 123 attempts, 83rd of 241 defencemen

Defenders get in front of a huge share of his shots

35.0% of everything he shoots gets blocked before it arrives.

43 of 123 attempts, 88th of 241 defencemen

He shoots from about where everyone else shoots from

His average attempt comes from 42.0 feet.

123 located attempts, 138th of 241 defencemen

No goalie has seen more of him than this one

No goalie has seen more of him than Jakub Dobes: 6 attempts, 0 goals.

0.0% conversion

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

He has drawn 2 penalties on Michael Kesselring.

penalties drawn, from play-by-play

He keeps taking penalties against this one opponent

Michael Kesselring 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 9.7% of his attempts.

3 goals on 31 close attempts, 7th of 221 defencemen

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

His deadliest shot is the snap shot: 4.8% of them go in.

1 goals on 21 attempts

There is a range from which his goals almost always come

His goals average 7.8 feet out, and the longest went in from 11.

3 goals located by coordinate

He scores about what his chances are worth

Cernak has 3 goals off 4.4 expected: 1.4 short of what the chances say.

97th of 241 defencemen

He shoots at about the league's usual rate

He converts 5.7% of the shots he puts on goal.

3 goals on 53 shots, 117th of 241 defencemen

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