Gabriel Landeskog Teammate Impact NHL Stats & Career Totals

Valeri Nichushkin is the partner who brings the best out of him

Landeskog is at his best beside Nichushkin: 65.1% of the expected goals together against 53.6% apart.

219 minutes together, 574 minutes apart

It stops working when he is paired with Cale Makar

The pairing with Makar is the one that costs him: 48.1% of the expected goals together, 62.1% apart.

275 minutes together, 518 minutes apart

Teammates tend to play worse when he is on their line

Makar does better away from him: 57.3% of the expected goals apart against 48.1% together.

275 minutes together, 1,025 minutes apart

Teammates play better with him than they do without him

Nichushkin is a different player beside him: 65.1% of the expected goals with Landeskog, 58.8% without him.

219 minutes together, 729 minutes apart for Nichushkin

He and Valeri Nichushkin are the pair that scares the other team

The pairing that generates most is Landeskog and Nichushkin: 6.83 expected goals an hour.

219 minutes together at 5v5

Brock Nelson is the partner his coach keeps going back to

He spends more 5v5 time with Nelson than anyone: 326 minutes, worth 60.2% of the expected goals.

20 goals for, 12 against together

The goals go his team's way when Martin Necas is out there with him

With Necas on the ice too, the Avalanche have outscored opponents 21 to 6 at 5v5.

77.8% goal share over 254 minutes

Nothing gets through when he and Jack Drury are out together

He gives up least beside Drury: 3.3 expected goals against an hour.

126 minutes together at 5v5

Martin Necas is who he runs the power play with, almost every time

On the power play his best partner is Necas: 93.6% of the expected goals over 106 minutes.

13 goals for, 1 against together

This is the group that wins him his minutes

His best five is with Burns, Manson, Nelson and Nichushkin: 74.7% of the expected goals over 45 minutes.

3 goals for, 1 against, 59.2% of the attempts

This is the group his coach trusts with the game

The five the coach goes back to is Landeskog with MacKinnon, Makar, Necas and Toews, 89 minutes at 5v5.

51.8% of the expected goals, 6 goals for and 2 against

This is the group the power play actually runs through

His power-play unit is MacKinnon, Makar, Necas and Nelson: 8 goals in 40 minutes.

11.87 goals an hour, 6.4 expected

His coach keeps shuffling the players around him

Landeskog has played 30 different five-man units at 5v5, 4 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

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

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

Martin Necas is the teammate who sets him up more than anyone

Martin Necas has assisted on 7 of his 14 goals, 50.0% of them.

3 primary, 4 secondary

Nathan MacKinnon is the teammate he sets up more than anyone

He has helped on 9 of Nathan MacKinnon's goals, 42.9% of his own assists.

2 primary, 7 secondary

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

33.3% of his assists are primary, the pass that actually made the goal.

7 primary of 21 assists

One teammate is responsible for most of his goals

10 different teammates have assisted on his 14 goals.

Necas (7), MacKinnon (5), Nichushkin (3), Makar (2)

The offence comes alive when he steps on the ice

The Avalanche create 5.68 expected goals an hour at 5v5 with Landeskog on.

10th of 454 forwards

His team wins the goal battle while he is on the ice

The Avalanche score 65.3% of the 5v5 goals with Landeskog out there.

47 for, 25 against, 11th of 454 forwards

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

The Avalanche are up 44 goals with Landeskog on the ice.

77 for, 33 against, 26th of 466 forwards

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

56.5% of the 5v5 shots on goal go his way when Landeskog is on.

468 for, 361 against, 33rd of 454 forwards

His results are about what the underlying play deserves

His 5v5 on-ice percentages add to 103.1, running hot and likely to cool.

10.0% shooting and 93.1% goaltending behind him, 55th of 454 forwards

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

At 5v5 the Avalanche generate 56.9% of the expected goals with Landeskog on the ice.

75.1 xGF to 56.9 xGA over 793 minutes, 38th of 454 forwards

His side controls the puck while he is out there

Landeskog's line owns 55.5% of the 5v5 shot attempts.

930 for, 746 against, 43rd of 454 forwards

His line finishes better than the chances it creates

His line is scoring above the chances it creates: 65.3% of the goals off 56.9% of the expected goals.

8.4 points of goal share above expectation

The power play stalls when he is the one out there

On the power play his unit generates 8.27 expected goals an hour.

14 goals in 145 minutes, 224th of 269 forwards

He gives up about what an average skater gives up

He gives up 4.31 expected goals an hour at 5v5.

196th of 454 forwards

He gives up about what an average skater gives up

Opponents get 56.43 shot attempts an hour with Landeskog on the ice at 5v5.

212th of 454 forwards

His coach leans on him more than almost anyone

Landeskog plays 16:24 a night, 170th among forwards.

985 minutes across 60 games

He gets an ordinary share of the power play time

He draws 2:32 of power play time a game, 123rd among forwards.

14.7% of his total ice time

The scoreboard moves his team's way when he plays

He is +29 on the season.

23rd in the league

He wins the draws his team needs him to win

He wins 62.3% of his draws.

25th in the league

He shoots the puck himself, not just when his line has it

He puts 7.99 shots on goal an hour.

105th in the league

He spends too much time in the penalty box

He takes 2.87 penalty minutes an hour.

173rd most penalty minutes an hour

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

Only 14.3% of his points come on the power play: this is even-strength production.

5 of 35 points with the man advantage

He puts up points at a rate very few match

Landeskog produces 2.13 points an hour of ice time.

199th in the league

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

He sets up 1.28 assists an hour of ice time.

201st in the league

He scores at a rate very few players match

He scores 0.85 goals an hour of ice time.

230th in the league

He gives the puck away more than he should

15 takeaways against 41 giveaways: he loses it far more often than he wins it back.

0.37 takeaways per giveaway

He is one of the reasons the man advantage scores

On the power play he produces 0.3 points an hour.

288th in the league

He almost never hands the puck to the other team

He gives it away 2.5 times an hour.

642nd most giveaways an hour

Blocking shots is not part of how he plays

He blocks 1.95 shots an hour of ice time.

632nd in the league

He plays a heavy game and the other team feels it

He finishes 5.24 checks an hour.

337th in the league

He wins the puck back about as often as most

He takes the puck back 0.92 times an hour.

399th in the league

Defenders get in front of a huge share of his shots

16.3% of everything he shoots gets blocked before it arrives.

41 of 251 attempts, 57th of 468 forwards

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

60.6% of what he shoots comes from the slot.

152 attempts from inside the home plate, 95th of 468 forwards

His game is played in the hardest part of the ice

60.6% of his attempts come from inside 25 feet.

152 of 251 attempts, 96th of 468 forwards

There is one shot he goes to more than any other

31.5% of his attempts are the wrist shot.

79 attempts, 3 goals

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

He fires 15.29 attempts an hour of ice time.

251 attempts in 985 minutes, 114th of 466 forwards

He can beat goalies from further out than most players

9.2% of his attempts are fired from beyond 45 feet.

23 long-range attempts, 119th of 468 forwards

He gets to the hard areas rather than firing from range

His average attempt comes from 24.2 feet.

251 located attempts, 122nd of 468 forwards

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

44.2% of his attempts come from the middle lane.

71 left, 111 middle, 69 right

A lot of his shots miss the net entirely

62.9% of his unblocked attempts actually hit the net.

132 of 210 unblocked, 334th of 468 forwards

He shoots more pucks over a season than almost anybody

Landeskog has taken 251 shot attempts this season.

118 on goal, 78 missed, 41 blocked, 165th of 468 forwards

He owns this goalie, and the numbers are not close

Landeskog has scored 3 times on Dustin Wolf this season, more than on any other goaltender.

3 goals on 13 attempts, 23.1%

This goalie has his number and he cannot solve him

Igor Shesterkin has turned him away every time: 11 attempts, no goals.

0.0% conversion

Almost everything he puts on this goalie goes in

His deadliest matchup is Dustin Wolf: 23.1% of his attempts against him go in.

3 goals on 13 attempts

One team seems to bring the best out of him

He has 3 goals against the Flames this season.

16 attempts against them

No goalie has seen more of him than this one

No goalie has seen more of him than Jesper Wallstedt: 16 attempts, 1 goal.

6.2% conversion

There is one team he simply cannot get going against

The Predators have held him without a goal on 20 attempts.

the most attempts he has taken against a club without scoring

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

He has drawn 2 penalties on Zach Whitecloud.

penalties drawn, from play-by-play

He is not converting the chances he gets

Landeskog has 14 goals off 19.4 expected: 5.4 short of what the chances say.

431st of 468 forwards

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

His deadliest shot is the slap shot: 11.8% of them go in.

2 goals on 17 attempts

There is a range from which his goals almost always come

His goals average 14.8 feet out, and the longest went in from 47.

14 goals located by coordinate

His shooting has gone cold this season

He converts 10.6% of the shots he puts on goal.

14 goals on 132 shots, 308th of 468 forwards

The chances in tight are not going in for him

From inside 25 feet he buries 7.9% of his attempts.

12 goals on 152 close attempts, 274th of 468 forwards

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