Luke Evangelista

Evangelista is at his best beside Blankenburg: 69.7% of the expected goals together against 58.0% apart.

Hague is a different player beside him: 67.5% of the expected goals with Evangelista, 47.6% without him.

14 of his 14 regular 5v5 partners post a better expected-goal share beside Evangelista than away from him.

The pairing that generates most is Evangelista and Blankenburg: 7.53 expected goals an hour.

He spends more 5v5 time with O'Reilly than anyone: 607 minutes, worth 62.1% of the expected goals.

With Blankenburg on the ice too, the Predators have outscored opponents 9 to 4 at 5v5.

On the power play his best partner is Forsberg: 95.0% of the expected goals over 89 minutes.

His power-play unit is Forsberg, Josi, O'Reilly and Stamkos: 13 goals in 58 minutes.

His best five is with Blankenburg, Bunting, Hague and Haula: 76.0% of the expected goals over 31 minutes.

Ryan O'Reilly has assisted on 4 of his 13 goals, 30.8% of them.

He has helped on 12 of Steven Stamkos's goals, 27.3% of his own assists.

61.4% of his assists are primary, the pass that actually made the goal.

At 5v5 the Predators generate 60.4% of the expected goals with Evangelista on the ice.

He gives up 3.56 expected goals an hour at 5v5.

Evangelista's line owns 57.3% of the 5v5 shot attempts.

The Predators create 5.43 expected goals an hour at 5v5 with Evangelista on.

Opponents get 50.16 shot attempts an hour with Evangelista on the ice at 5v5.

The Predators are up 32 goals with Evangelista on the ice.

54.5% of the 5v5 shots on goal go his way when Evangelista is on.

The Predators score 52.5% of the 5v5 goals with Evangelista out there.

Evangelista plays 16:37 a night, 159th among forwards.

He sets up 1.96 assists an hour of ice time.

On the power play he produces 0.76 points an hour.

He puts 7.8 shots on goal an hour.

Evangelista produces 2.5 points an hour of ice time.

He takes the puck back 1.11 times an hour.

He is +1 on the season.

He gives it away 2.59 times an hour.

He scores 0.54 goals an hour of ice time.

Evangelista has taken 319 shot attempts this season.

17.9% of everything he shoots gets blocked before it arrives.

67.6% of his unblocked attempts actually hit the net.

He fires 14.22 attempts an hour of ice time.

Evangelista has scored 3 times on Alex Nedeljkovic this season, more than on any other goaltender.

He has 3 goals against the Sharks this season.

He has drawn 2 penalties on Sam Malinski.

His deadliest shot is the backhand: 16.7% of them go in.