Ian Cole Matchups NHL Stats & Career Totals

He owns this goalie, and the numbers are not close

Cole has scored 1 times on Joel Hofer 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

Juuse Saros 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 Juuse Saros: 8 attempts, 0 goals.

0.0% conversion

One opponent goes out of his way to run him

Adam Klapka has hit him 4 times, more than any other opponent.

hits absorbed, from play-by-play

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

He has drawn 2 penalties on Mathieu Olivier.

penalties drawn, from play-by-play

A lot of his shots miss the net entirely

55.4% of his unblocked attempts actually hit the net.

62 of 112 unblocked, 228th of 241 defencemen

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

He fires 7.01 attempts an hour of ice time.

175 attempts in 1,498 minutes, 206th of 245 defencemen

There is one shot he goes to more than any other

24.6% of his attempts are the snap shot.

43 attempts, 1 goals

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

26.3% of what he shoots comes from the slot.

46 attempts from inside the home plate, 60th of 241 defencemen

His game is played in the hardest part of the ice

26.3% of his attempts come from inside 25 feet.

46 of 175 attempts, 62nd of 241 defencemen

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

66.3% of his attempts come from the left side.

116 left, 36 middle, 23 right

He shoots from about where everyone else shoots from

His average attempt comes from 40.9 feet.

175 located attempts, 97th of 241 defencemen

About the usual number of his shots get blocked

36.0% of everything he shoots gets blocked before it arrives.

63 of 175 attempts, 106th of 241 defencemen

He takes about as many shots over a season as anyone

Cole has taken 175 shot attempts this season.

59 on goal, 50 missed, 63 blocked, 127th of 241 defencemen

His long range shooting is about league average

46.9% of his attempts are fired from beyond 45 feet.

82 long-range attempts, 113th of 241 defencemen

The chances in tight are not going in for him

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

0 goals on 46 close attempts, 144th of 221 defencemen

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

His deadliest shot is the wrist shot: 6.1% of them go in.

2 goals on 33 attempts

There is a range from which his goals almost always come

His goals average 31.4 feet out, and the longest went in from 35.

3 goals located by coordinate

He scores about what his chances are worth

Cole has 3 goals off 5.3 expected: 2.3 short of what the chances say.

144th of 241 defencemen

He shoots at about the league's usual rate

He converts 4.8% of the shots he puts on goal.

3 goals on 62 shots, 140th of 241 defencemen

He throws himself in front of pucks more than almost anyone

He blocks 6.05 shots an hour of ice time.

42nd in the league

The scoreboard moves his team's way when he plays

He is +16 on the season.

63rd in the league

He rarely puts a puck on net of his own

He puts 2.48 shots on goal an hour.

859th in the league

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

He has 1 short-handed points this season.

131st in the league

He hands the puck over more than he should

He gives it away 3.81 times an hour.

175th most giveaways an hour

He gives the puck away more than he should

15 takeaways against 95 giveaways: he loses it far more often than he wins it back.

0.16 takeaways per giveaway

He rarely wins the puck back on his own

He takes the puck back 0.6 times an hour.

689th in the league

He spends too much time in the penalty box

He takes 2 penalty minutes an hour.

314th most penalty minutes an hour

The goals have dried up for him this season

He scores 0.12 goals an hour of ice time.

692nd in the league

He plays about as physical a game as anyone

He finishes 2.92 checks an hour.

563rd in the league

He produces at about the rate you would expect

Cole produces 0.92 points an hour of ice time.

615th in the league

He starts and finishes plays in about equal measure

He sets up 0.8 assists an hour of ice time.

477th in the league

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

The Blackhawks are down 18 goals with Cole on the ice.

68 for, 86 against, 192nd of 245 defencemen

Very little gets through when he is on the ice

He gives up 4.06 expected goals an hour at 5v5.

58th of 246 defencemen

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

At 5v5 the Blackhawks generate 52.1% of the expected goals with Cole on the ice.

89.0 xGF to 81.9 xGA over 1,211 minutes, 65th of 246 defencemen

His results are about what the underlying play deserves

His 5v5 on-ice percentages add to 100.1, close to neutral.

10.8% shooting and 89.3% goaltending behind him, 125th of 246 defencemen

The kill leaks goals when he is the one out there

Short-handed he concedes 10.8 expected goals an hour.

33 goals against in 244 minutes, 110th of 156 defencemen

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

51.3% of the 5v5 shots on goal go his way when Cole is on.

491 for, 467 against, 74th of 246 defencemen

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

The Blackhawks score 51.5% of the 5v5 goals with Cole out there.

53 for, 50 against, 91st of 246 defencemen

The offence runs at about its usual level with him

The Blackhawks create 4.41 expected goals an hour at 5v5 with Cole on.

98th of 246 defencemen

Neither team controls the puck when he is on

Cole's line owns 50.3% of the 5v5 shot attempts.

1,140 for, 1,126 against, 97th of 246 defencemen

He gives up about what an average skater gives up

Opponents get 55.8 shot attempts an hour with Cole on the ice at 5v5.

105th of 246 defencemen

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

He draws 3:03 of penalty kill time a game, 12th among defencemen.

16.3% of his total ice time

He gets a normal share of the minutes

Cole plays 18:16 a night, 138th among defencemen.

1,498 minutes across 82 games

Daniil But is the partner who brings the best out of him

Cole is at his best beside But: 63.9% of the expected goals together against 50.7% apart.

130 minutes together, 1,080 minutes apart

It stops working when he is paired with Mikhail Sergachev

The pairing with Sergachev is the one that costs him: 34.0% of the expected goals together, 54.7% apart.

127 minutes together, 1,083 minutes apart

Teammates play better with him than they do without him

Maatta is a different player beside him: 57.0% of the expected goals with Cole, 42.0% without him.

149 minutes together, 116 minutes apart for Maatta

Teammates tend to play worse when he is on their line

Sergachev does better away from him: 52.6% of the expected goals apart against 34.0% together.

127 minutes together, 1,206 minutes apart

He and Jack McBain are the pair that scares the other team

The pairing that generates most is Cole and McBain: 5.45 expected goals an hour.

292 minutes together at 5v5

Nick DeSimone is the partner his coach keeps going back to

He spends more 5v5 time with DeSimone than anyone: 354 minutes, worth 55.7% of the expected goals.

17 goals for, 15 against together

The goals go his team's way when JJ Peterka is out there with him

With Peterka on the ice too, the Blackhawks have outscored opponents 20 to 9 at 5v5.

69.0% goal share over 343 minutes

Nothing gets through when he and Daniil But are out together

He gives up least beside But: 2.91 expected goals against an hour.

130 minutes together at 5v5

Jack McBain is who he kills penalties with, almost every time

Killing penalties he is tightest with McBain: 7.99 expected goals against an hour.

37 minutes together short-handed

This is the group his coach trusts with the game

The five the coach goes back to is Cole with But, Carcone, DeSimone and McBain, 31 minutes at 5v5.

58.0% of the expected goals, 0 goals for and 0 against

This is the group sent out to kill the hard ones

His most used kill is with Crouse, Sergachev and Stenlund: 8 goals against in 117 minutes.

4.1 against an hour, 24.8 expected

His coach keeps shuffling the players around him

Cole has been shuffled through 59 different five-man units, and only 1 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

20 teammates have played at least 100 5v5 minutes with Cole this season.

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

Dylan Guenther is the teammate he sets up more than anyone

He has helped on 3 of Dylan Guenther's goals, 15.0% of his own assists.

2 primary, 1 secondary

His assists are the usual mix of first and second passes

50.0% of his assists are primary, the pass that actually made the goal.

10 primary of 20 assists

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