Jason Zucker Teammate Impact NHL Stats & Career Totals

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

Zucker is at his best beside Quinn: 50.5% of the expected goals together against 41.0% apart.

559 minutes together, 180 minutes apart

Teammates play better with him than they do without him

Quinn is a different player beside him: 50.5% of the expected goals with Zucker, 42.8% without him.

559 minutes together, 486 minutes apart for Quinn

Teammates tend to play worse when he is on their line

Power does better away from him: 53.2% of the expected goals apart against 45.6% together.

269 minutes together, 1,180 minutes apart

It stops working when he is paired with Owen Power

The pairing with Power is the one that costs him: 45.6% of the expected goals together, 50.2% apart.

269 minutes together, 470 minutes apart

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

4 of his 6 regular 5v5 partners post a better expected-goal share beside Zucker than away from him.

partners with at least 100 minutes together and apart

He and Rasmus Dahlin are the pair that scares the other team

The pairing that generates most is Zucker and Dahlin: 4.92 expected goals an hour.

307 minutes together at 5v5

Jack Quinn is the partner his coach keeps going back to

He spends more 5v5 time with Quinn than anyone: 559 minutes, worth 50.5% of the expected goals.

32 goals for, 23 against together

The goals go his team's way when Rasmus Dahlin is out there with him

With Dahlin on the ice too, the Sabres have outscored opponents 23 to 12 at 5v5.

65.7% goal share over 307 minutes

Nothing gets through when he and Ryan McLeod are out together

He gives up least beside McLeod: 4.06 expected goals against an hour.

495 minutes together at 5v5

Josh Norris is who he runs the power play with, almost every time

On the power play his best partner is Norris: 95.8% of the expected goals over 104 minutes.

17 goals for, 2 against together

This is the group his coach trusts with the game

The five the coach goes back to is Zucker with Dahlin, McLeod, Quinn and Samuelsson, 113 minutes at 5v5.

51.1% of the expected goals, 10 goals for and 6 against

This is the group the power play actually runs through

His power-play unit is Dahlin, Doan, Norris and Thompson: 10 goals in 57 minutes.

10.48 goals an hour, 11.2 expected

This is the group that wins him his minutes

His best five is with Dahlin, McLeod, Quinn and Samuelsson: 51.1% of the expected goals over 113 minutes.

10 goals for, 6 against, 47.7% of the attempts

His coach keeps shuffling the players around him

Zucker has been shuffled through 23 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

6 teammates have played at least 100 5v5 minutes with Zucker this season.

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

Jack Quinn is the teammate who sets him up more than anyone

Jack Quinn has assisted on 9 of his 24 goals, 37.5% of them.

7 primary, 2 secondary

Jack Quinn is the teammate he sets up more than anyone

He has helped on 7 of Jack Quinn's goals, 33.3% of his own assists.

3 primary, 4 secondary

His assists are the usual mix of first and second passes

52.4% of his assists are primary, the pass that actually made the goal.

11 primary of 21 assists

One teammate is responsible for most of his goals

11 different teammates have assisted on his 24 goals.

Quinn (9), McLeod (8), Dahlin (8), Thompson (5)

His results are about what the underlying play deserves

His 5v5 on-ice percentages add to 102.5, running hot and likely to cool.

11.3% shooting and 91.2% goaltending behind him, 81st of 454 forwards

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

The Sabres are up 26 goals with Zucker on the ice.

72 for, 46 against, 82nd of 466 forwards

His line finishes better than the chances it creates

His line is scoring above the chances it creates: 54.3% of the goals off 48.4% of the expected goals.

5.9 points of goal share above expectation

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

The Sabres score 54.3% of the 5v5 goals with Zucker out there.

38 for, 32 against, 122nd of 454 forwards

His line gets badly outshot when it is out there

48.1% of the 5v5 shots on goal go his way when Zucker is on.

337 for, 363 against, 276th of 454 forwards

Play tilts towards his own net when he is out there

At 5v5 the Sabres generate 48.4% of the expected goals with Zucker on the ice.

51.9 xGF to 55.2 xGA over 739 minutes, 271st of 454 forwards

The offence runs at about its usual level with him

The Sabres create 4.21 expected goals an hour at 5v5 with Zucker on.

261st of 454 forwards

He gives up about what an average skater gives up

He gives up 4.48 expected goals an hour at 5v5.

254th of 454 forwards

Neither team controls the puck when he is on

Zucker's line owns 48.8% of the 5v5 shot attempts.

667 for, 700 against, 258th of 454 forwards

The power play is ordinary with him on it

On the power play his unit generates 10.0 expected goals an hour.

30 goals in 207 minutes, 129th of 269 forwards

He gives up about what an average skater gives up

Opponents get 56.82 shot attempts an hour with Zucker on the ice at 5v5.

227th of 454 forwards

His coach puts him out for most of the power play time

He draws 3:23 of power play time a game, 37th among forwards.

21.3% of his total ice time

His coach leans on him more than almost anyone

Zucker plays 15:37 a night, 201st among forwards.

969 minutes across 62 games

He scores at a rate very few players match

He scores 1.49 goals an hour of ice time.

38th in the league

He is one of the reasons the man advantage scores

On the power play he produces 0.99 points an hour.

56th in the league

He puts up points at a rate very few match

Zucker produces 2.79 points an hour of ice time.

81st in the league

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

He puts 7.93 shots on goal an hour.

107th in the league

He hands the puck over more than he should

He gives it away 4.03 times an hour.

124th most giveaways an hour

Blocking shots is not part of how he plays

He blocks 1.3 shots an hour of ice time.

797th in the league

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

He sets up 1.3 assists an hour of ice time.

192nd in the league

A lot of his goals arrive when the game is on the line

Zucker has 7 game winners this season.

24 goals in total

He rarely wins the puck back on his own

He takes the puck back 0.5 times an hour.

753rd in the league

He gives the puck away more than he should

8 takeaways against 65 giveaways: he loses it far more often than he wins it back.

0.12 takeaways per giveaway

The scoreboard moves the wrong way when he plays

He is -5 on the season.

685th in the league

Losing draws is a real hole in his game

He wins 38.7% of his draws.

377th in the league

He takes about as many penalties as anyone

He takes 1.43 penalty minutes an hour.

456th most penalty minutes an hour

He plays about as physical a game as anyone

He finishes 3.53 checks an hour.

503rd in the league

He gets to the hard areas rather than firing from range

His average attempt comes from 20.8 feet.

224 located attempts, 20th of 468 forwards

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

67.4% of what he shoots comes from the slot.

151 attempts from inside the home plate, 28th of 468 forwards

His game is played in the hardest part of the ice

67.4% of his attempts come from inside 25 feet.

151 of 224 attempts, 28th of 468 forwards

Defenders get in front of a huge share of his shots

15.2% of everything he shoots gets blocked before it arrives.

34 of 224 attempts, 33rd of 468 forwards

There is one shot he goes to more than any other

33.9% of his attempts are the wrist shot.

76 attempts, 8 goals

He can beat goalies from further out than most players

9.4% of his attempts are fired from beyond 45 feet.

21 long-range attempts, 124th of 468 forwards

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

54.0% of his attempts come from the middle lane.

61 left, 121 middle, 42 right

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

He fires 13.88 attempts an hour of ice time.

224 attempts in 969 minutes, 175th of 466 forwards

He takes about as many shots over a season as anyone

Zucker has taken 224 shot attempts this season.

102 on goal, 64 missed, 34 blocked, 197th of 468 forwards

He hits the net about as often as anyone

66.3% of his unblocked attempts actually hit the net.

126 of 190 unblocked, 204th of 468 forwards

He owns this goalie, and the numbers are not close

Zucker has scored 2 times on Eric Comrie this season, more than on any other goaltender.

2 goals on 8 attempts, 25.0%

This goalie has his number and he cannot solve him

Jake Allen 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 Eric Comrie: 25.0% of his attempts against him go in.

2 goals on 8 attempts

One team seems to bring the best out of him

He has 3 goals against the Bruins this season.

24 attempts against them

No goalie has seen more of him than this one

No goalie has seen more of him than Joonas Korpisalo: 14 attempts, 2 goals.

14.3% conversion

There is one team he simply cannot get going against

The Devils have held him without a goal on 14 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 Jonas Siegenthaler.

penalties drawn, from play-by-play

He keeps taking penalties against this one opponent

Kiefer Sherwood has drawn 2 penalties on him.

penalties taken, from play-by-play

A remarkable share of his shots end up in the net

He converts 19.0% of the shots he puts on goal.

24 goals on 126 shots, 42nd of 468 forwards

The chances he gets in tight almost always go in

From inside 25 feet he buries 12.6% of his attempts.

19 goals on 151 close attempts, 60th of 468 forwards

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

His deadliest shot is the snap shot: 19.6% of them go in.

9 goals on 46 attempts

He scores more than the chances he gets should produce

Zucker has 24 goals off 19.5 expected: 4.5 more than the chances alone say.

101st of 468 forwards

There is a range from which his goals almost always come

His goals average 13.7 feet out, and the longest went in from 40.

24 goals located by coordinate

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