John Klingberg Teammate Impact NHL Stats & Career Totals

It stops working when he is paired with Philipp Kurashev

The pairing with Kurashev is the one that costs him: 39.8% of the expected goals together, 51.4% apart.

179 minutes together, 754 minutes apart

Teammates tend to play worse when he is on their line

Kurashev does better away from him: 49.3% of the expected goals apart against 39.8% together.

179 minutes together, 363 minutes apart

Teammates play better with him than they do without him

Goodrow is a different player beside him: 53.3% of the expected goals with Klingberg, 44.9% without him.

126 minutes together, 629 minutes apart for Goodrow

Dmitry Orlov is the partner who brings the best out of him

Klingberg is at his best beside Orlov: 52.0% of the expected goals together against 45.2% apart.

527 minutes together, 406 minutes apart

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

8 of his 12 regular 5v5 partners post a better expected-goal share beside Klingberg than away from him.

partners with at least 100 minutes together and apart

He and Dmitry Orlov are the pair that scares the other team

The pairing that generates most is Klingberg and Orlov: 5.08 expected goals an hour.

527 minutes together at 5v5

Dmitry Orlov is the partner his coach keeps going back to

He spends more 5v5 time with Orlov than anyone: 527 minutes, worth 52.0% of the expected goals.

25 goals for, 34 against together

The goals go his team's way when Mario Ferraro is out there with him

With Ferraro on the ice too, the Sharks have outscored opponents 14 to 6 at 5v5.

70.0% goal share over 238 minutes

Nothing gets through when he and Barclay Goodrow are out together

He gives up least beside Goodrow: 3.75 expected goals against an hour.

126 minutes together at 5v5

Tyler Toffoli is who he runs the power play with, almost every time

On the power play his best partner is Toffoli: 95.6% of the expected goals over 100 minutes.

7 goals for, 1 against together

This is the group his coach trusts with the game

The five the coach goes back to is Klingberg with Celebrini, Graf, Orlov and Smith, 75 minutes at 5v5.

44.3% of the expected goals, 2 goals for and 7 against

This group gets caved in every time it goes out

The five that struggles is with Celebrini, Graf, Orlov and Smith: 44.3% of the expected goals.

2 goals for, 7 against over 75 minutes

This is the group the power play actually runs through

His power-play unit is Celebrini, Eklund, Smith and Wennberg: 8 goals in 36 minutes.

13.49 goals an hour, 4.6 expected

His coach keeps shuffling the players around him

Klingberg has been shuffled through 37 different five-man units, and only 3 of them have settled.

units of at least 5 minutes; 30 minutes counts as settled

This is the group that wins him his minutes

His best five is with Celebrini, Ferraro, Smith and Toffoli: 51.9% of the expected goals over 39 minutes.

4 goals for, 1 against, 50.7% of the attempts

The same few teammates are on the ice with him all night

12 teammates have played at least 100 5v5 minutes with Klingberg 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

23.5% of his assists are primary, the pass that actually made the goal.

4 primary of 17 assists

Macklin Celebrini is the teammate who sets him up more than anyone

Macklin Celebrini has assisted on 9 of his 10 goals, 90.0% of them.

7 primary, 2 secondary

Macklin Celebrini is the teammate he sets up more than anyone

He has helped on 4 of Macklin Celebrini's goals, 23.5% of his own assists.

1 primary, 3 secondary

One teammate is responsible for most of his goals

7 different teammates have assisted on his 10 goals.

Celebrini (9), Smith (4), Toffoli (1), Eklund (1)

His line gets badly outshot when it is out there

46.0% of the 5v5 shots on goal go his way when Klingberg is on.

396 for, 465 against, 195th of 246 defencemen

His results are about what the underlying play deserves

His 5v5 on-ice percentages add to 100.6, close to neutral.

11.6% shooting and 89.0% goaltending behind him, 102nd of 246 defencemen

The power play is a real weapon with him on it

On the power play his unit generates 10.53 expected goals an hour.

16 goals in 163 minutes, 26th of 85 defencemen

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

The Sharks are up 2 goals with Klingberg on the ice.

69 for, 67 against, 68th of 244 defencemen

The defence springs leaks when he is out there

He gives up 4.53 expected goals an hour at 5v5.

153rd of 246 defencemen

The offence comes alive when he steps on the ice

The Sharks create 4.42 expected goals an hour at 5v5 with Klingberg on.

97th of 246 defencemen

The other team gets whatever it wants when he is on

Opponents get 58.82 shot attempts an hour with Klingberg on the ice at 5v5.

149th of 246 defencemen

Goals go both ways evenly when he is on

The Sharks score 47.4% of the 5v5 goals with Klingberg out there.

46 for, 51 against, 145th of 246 defencemen

Neither team controls the puck when he is on

Klingberg's line owns 48.6% of the 5v5 shot attempts.

864 for, 915 against, 136th of 246 defencemen

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

At 5v5 the Sharks generate 49.4% of the expected goals with Klingberg on the ice.

68.8 xGF to 70.5 xGA over 933 minutes, 125th of 246 defencemen

His coach leans on him more than almost anyone

Klingberg plays 20:28 a night, 88th among defencemen.

1,146 minutes across 56 games

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

He draws 2:58 of power play time a game, 23rd among defencemen.

14.2% of his total ice time

The scoreboard moves the wrong way when he plays

He is -13 on the season.

844th in the league

He hands the puck over more than he should

He gives it away 3.98 times an hour.

137th most giveaways an hour

He is one of the reasons the man advantage scores

On the power play he produces 0.47 points an hour.

207th in the league

He gives the puck away more than he should

13 takeaways against 76 giveaways: he loses it far more often than he wins it back.

0.17 takeaways per giveaway

He rarely puts a puck on net of his own

He puts 4.14 shots on goal an hour.

630th in the league

He avoids the physical side of the game

He finishes 2.41 checks an hour.

623rd in the league

He rarely wins the puck back on his own

He takes the puck back 0.68 times an hour.

615th in the league

He throws himself in front of pucks more than almost anyone

He blocks 3.25 shots an hour of ice time.

358th in the league

He puts up points at a rate very few match

Klingberg produces 1.41 points an hour of ice time.

411th in the league

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

He sets up 0.89 assists an hour of ice time.

411th in the league

He scores at a rate very few players match

He scores 0.52 goals an hour of ice time.

412th in the league

He takes about as many penalties as anyone

He takes 1.26 penalty minutes an hour.

515th most penalty minutes an hour

A lot of his shots miss the net entirely

57.2% of his unblocked attempts actually hit the net.

79 of 138 unblocked, 211th of 241 defencemen

There is one shot he goes to more than any other

36.9% of his attempts are the wrist shot.

83 attempts, 6 goals

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

He fires 11.78 attempts an hour of ice time.

225 attempts in 1,146 minutes, 56th of 244 defencemen

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

49.3% of his attempts come from the right side.

36 left, 78 middle, 111 right

He shoots more pucks over a season than almost anybody

Klingberg has taken 225 shot attempts this season.

69 on goal, 59 missed, 87 blocked, 85th of 241 defencemen

He finds shooting lanes that most players cannot

38.7% of everything he shoots gets blocked before it arrives.

87 of 225 attempts, 154th of 241 defencemen

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

24.9% of what he shoots comes from the slot.

56 attempts from inside the home plate, 87th of 241 defencemen

His game is played in the hardest part of the ice

24.9% of his attempts come from inside 25 feet.

56 of 225 attempts, 89th of 241 defencemen

He gets to the hard areas rather than firing from range

His average attempt comes from 40.7 feet.

225 located attempts, 91st of 241 defencemen

His long range shooting is about league average

45.8% of his attempts are fired from beyond 45 feet.

103 long-range attempts, 99th of 241 defencemen

He owns this goalie, and the numbers are not close

Klingberg has scored 1 times on Nikita Tolopilo this season, more than on any other goaltender.

1 goals on 6 attempts, 16.7%

This goalie has his number and he cannot solve him

Connor Ingram has turned him away every time: 8 attempts, no goals.

0.0% conversion

One team seems to bring the best out of him

He has 2 goals against the Canucks this season.

12 attempts against them

No goalie has seen more of him than this one

No goalie has seen more of him than Dustin Wolf: 9 attempts, 1 goal.

11.1% conversion

There is one team he simply cannot get going against

The Jets have held him without a goal on 17 attempts.

the most attempts he has taken against a club without scoring

A remarkable share of his shots end up in the net

He converts 12.7% of the shots he puts on goal.

10 goals on 79 shots, 6th of 241 defencemen

He scores more than the chances he gets should produce

Klingberg has 10 goals off 8.0 expected: 2.0 more than the chances alone say.

15th of 241 defencemen

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

His deadliest shot is the slap shot: 9.7% of them go in.

3 goals on 31 attempts

There is a range from which his goals almost always come

His goals average 39.2 feet out, and the longest went in from 57.

10 goals located by coordinate

The chances he gets in tight almost always go in

From inside 25 feet he buries 3.6% of his attempts.

2 goals on 56 close attempts, 68th of 221 defencemen

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