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Position C
Age 38
Height 6'4"
Weight 220LBS
Shoots L
Birth Place Thunder Bay, ON, CAN
Born Sep 9, 1988

Key Insights

2025-26
This is the group that wins him his minutes

His best five is with Carrier, Martinook, Miller and Walker: 66.6% of the expected goals over 70 minutes.

2 goals for, 4 against, 66.7% of the attempts
This is the group his coach trusts with the game

The five the coach goes back to is Staal with Chatfield, Ehlers, Martinook and Slavin, 132 minutes at 5v5.

63.5% of the expected goals, 7 goals for and 9 against
This is the group the power play actually runs through

His power-play unit is Aho, Gostisbehere, Jarvis and Svechnikov: 8 goals in 31 minutes.

15.69 goals an hour, 5.9 expected
This is the group sent out to kill the hard ones

His most used kill is with Chatfield, Martinook and Slavin: 6 goals against in 50 minutes.

7.17 against an hour, 7.5 expected
His coach keeps shuffling the players around him

Staal has played 31 different five-man units at 5v5, 5 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

10 teammates have played at least 100 5v5 minutes with Staal this season.

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

Lineup and with-you/without-you numbers are built from shift charts, which are loaded per season. Seasons without shift data show no lineups. With-you/without-you totals exclude empty-net play, so a 6-on-5 push does not land in a with-or-without-you number. xG is Digest’s estimated model.

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Player Bio Data
DOB Sep 9, 1988
Birth Place Thunder Bay, ON, CAN
Height 6'4"
Weight 220 LBS
Shoots/Catches L