Kris Letang Teammate Impact NHL Stats & Career Totals

Teammates play better with him than they do without him

Kulak is a different player beside him: 48.6% of the expected goals with Letang, 31.9% without him.

278 minutes together, 215 minutes apart for Kulak

Teammates tend to play worse when he is on their line

Chinakhov does better away from him: 62.9% of the expected goals apart against 44.7% together.

176 minutes together, 106 minutes apart

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

Only 1 of his 15 regular 5v5 partners post a better expected-goal share beside Letang than away from him.

partners with at least 100 minutes together and apart

Blake Lizotte is the partner who brings the best out of him

Letang is at his best beside Lizotte: 52.4% of the expected goals together against 47.5% apart.

162 minutes together, 1,138 minutes apart

It stops working when he is paired with Egor Chinakhov

The pairing with Chinakhov is the one that costs him: 44.7% of the expected goals together, 48.7% apart.

176 minutes together, 1,124 minutes apart

He and Blake Lizotte are the pair that scares the other team

The pairing that generates most is Letang and Lizotte: 5.77 expected goals an hour.

162 minutes together at 5v5

Ryan Shea is the partner his coach keeps going back to

He spends more 5v5 time with Shea than anyone: 572 minutes, worth 47.3% of the expected goals.

28 goals for, 27 against together

The goals go his team's way when Samuel Girard is out there with him

With Girard on the ice too, the Penguins have outscored opponents 13 to 9 at 5v5.

59.1% goal share over 265 minutes

Nothing gets through when he and Samuel Girard are out together

He gives up least beside Girard: 4.35 expected goals against an hour.

265 minutes together at 5v5

Justin Brazeau is who he runs the power play with, almost every time

On the power play his best partner is Brazeau: 85.4% of the expected goals over 45 minutes.

6 goals for, 1 against together

Bryan Rust is who he kills penalties with, almost every time

Killing penalties he is tightest with Rust: 7.43 expected goals against an hour.

32 minutes together short-handed

This is the group his coach trusts with the game

The five the coach goes back to is Letang with Crosby, Kulak, Rakell and Rust, 83 minutes at 5v5.

47.9% of the expected goals, 4 goals for and 3 against

This is the group the power play actually runs through

His power-play unit is Crosby, Malkin, Rakell and Rust: 2 goals in 16 minutes.

7.54 goals an hour, 3.5 expected

This is the group sent out to kill the hard ones

His most used kill is with Dewar, Lizotte and Shea: 1 goal against in 15 minutes.

4.07 against an hour, 0.8 expected

This is the group that wins him his minutes

His best five is with Brazeau, Malkin, Mantha and Shea: 61.5% of the expected goals over 37 minutes.

5 goals for, 1 against, 48.1% of the attempts

This group gets caved in every time it goes out

The five that struggles is with Malkin, Mantha, Novak and Shea: 38.3% of the expected goals.

1 goal for, 1 against over 32 minutes

His coach keeps shuffling the players around him

Letang has played 59 different five-man units at 5v5, 6 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

16 teammates have played at least 100 5v5 minutes with Letang this season.

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

Bryan Rust is the teammate he sets up more than anyone

He has helped on 6 of Bryan Rust's goals, 19.4% of his own assists.

1 primary, 5 secondary

His assists are the usual mix of first and second passes

51.6% of his assists are primary, the pass that actually made the goal.

16 primary of 31 assists

Teams struggle to score on him when he is killing penalties

Short-handed he concedes 7.95 expected goals an hour.

9 goals against in 82 minutes, 15th of 156 defencemen

The defence springs leaks when he is out there

He gives up 5.0 expected goals an hour at 5v5.

214th of 246 defencemen

His results are about what the underlying play deserves

His 5v5 on-ice percentages add to 100.3, close to neutral.

9.9% shooting and 90.4% goaltending behind him, 116th of 246 defencemen

The power play stalls when he is the one out there

On the power play his unit generates 8.6 expected goals an hour.

15 goals in 113 minutes, 63rd of 85 defencemen

The other team gets whatever it wants when he is on

Opponents get 60.52 shot attempts an hour with Letang on the ice at 5v5.

181st of 246 defencemen

The offence comes alive when he steps on the ice

The Penguins create 4.65 expected goals an hour at 5v5 with Letang on.

67th of 246 defencemen

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

The Penguins are up 2 goals with Letang on the ice.

90 for, 88 against, 67th of 245 defencemen

Play tilts towards his own net when he is out there

At 5v5 the Penguins generate 48.2% of the expected goals with Letang on the ice.

100.9 xGF to 108.3 xGA over 1,301 minutes, 147th of 246 defencemen

Shots even out when he is on the ice

48.3% of the 5v5 shots on goal go his way when Letang is on.

568 for, 607 against, 144th of 246 defencemen

Neither team controls the puck when he is on

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

1,252 for, 1,312 against, 132nd of 246 defencemen

Goals go both ways evenly when he is on

The Penguins score 49.1% of the 5v5 goals with Letang out there.

56 for, 58 against, 126th of 246 defencemen

He is kept off the penalty kill

He draws 1:20 of penalty kill time a game, 143rd among defencemen.

5.1% of his total ice time

His coach leans on him more than almost anyone

Letang plays 21:41 a night, 58th among defencemen.

1,605 minutes across 74 games

He is not part of the power play plan

He draws 1:44 of power play time a game, 53rd among defencemen.

7.0% of his total ice time

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

Letang has 2 game winners including 2 in overtime this season.

3 goals in total

He hands the puck over more than he should

He gives it away 3.71 times an hour.

192nd most giveaways an hour

He gives the puck away more than he should

26 takeaways against 99 giveaways: he loses it far more often than he wins it back.

0.26 takeaways per giveaway

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

He sets up 1.16 assists an hour of ice time.

243rd in the league

He is one of the reasons the man advantage scores

On the power play he produces 0.37 points an hour.

251st in the league

He rarely puts a puck on net of his own

He puts 3.85 shots on goal an hour.

664th in the league

The goals have dried up for him this season

He scores 0.11 goals an hour of ice time.

699th in the league

He throws himself in front of pucks more than almost anyone

He blocks 3.52 shots an hour of ice time.

309th in the league

The scoreboard moves the wrong way when he plays

He is -4 on the season.

630th in the league

He takes the puck off people more than almost anyone

He takes the puck back 0.97 times an hour.

349th in the league

He takes about as many penalties as anyone

He takes 1.42 penalty minutes an hour.

458th most penalty minutes an hour

He produces at about the rate you would expect

Letang produces 1.27 points an hour of ice time.

481st in the league

He plays about as physical a game as anyone

He finishes 3.56 checks an hour.

502nd in the league

His game is played in the hardest part of the ice

28.5% of his attempts come from inside 25 feet.

73 of 256 attempts, 32nd of 241 defencemen

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

28.1% of what he shoots comes from the slot.

72 attempts from inside the home plate, 37th of 241 defencemen

He can beat goalies from further out than most players

39.5% of his attempts are fired from beyond 45 feet.

101 long-range attempts, 39th of 241 defencemen

He gets to the hard areas rather than firing from range

His average attempt comes from 38.9 feet.

256 located attempts, 45th of 241 defencemen

There is one shot he goes to more than any other

35.9% of his attempts are the wrist shot.

92 attempts, 0 goals

He shoots more pucks over a season than almost anybody

Letang has taken 256 shot attempts this season.

102 on goal, 56 missed, 95 blocked, 61st of 241 defencemen

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

57.4% of his attempts come from the right side.

43 left, 66 middle, 147 right

He hits the net about as often as anyone

65.2% of his unblocked attempts actually hit the net.

105 of 161 unblocked, 96th of 241 defencemen

He shoots about as often as anyone else

He fires 9.57 attempts an hour of ice time.

256 attempts in 1,605 minutes, 105th of 245 defencemen

About the usual number of his shots get blocked

37.1% of everything he shoots gets blocked before it arrives.

95 of 256 attempts, 127th of 241 defencemen

He owns this goalie, and the numbers are not close

Letang has scored 1 times on Jet Greaves this season, more than on any other goaltender.

1 goals on 9 attempts, 11.1%

This goalie has his number and he cannot solve him

Jake Allen has turned him away every time: 7 attempts, no goals.

0.0% conversion

One team seems to bring the best out of him

He has 2 goals against the Blue Jackets this season.

22 attempts against them

No goalie has seen more of him than this one

No goalie has seen more of him than Jet Greaves: 9 attempts, 1 goal.

11.1% conversion

He is not converting the chances he gets

Letang has 3 goals off 9.0 expected: 6.0 short of what the chances say.

231st of 241 defencemen

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

His deadliest shot is the snap shot: 4.5% of them go in.

1 goals on 22 attempts

His shooting has gone cold this season

He converts 2.9% of the shots he puts on goal.

3 goals on 105 shots, 182nd of 241 defencemen

There is a range from which his goals almost always come

His goals average 31.7 feet out, and the longest went in from 47.

3 goals located by coordinate

The chances in tight are not going in for him

From inside 25 feet he buries 1.4% of his attempts.

1 goals on 73 close attempts, 140th of 221 defencemen

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