Nate Schmidt Teammate Impact NHL Stats & Career Totals

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

Schmidt is at his best beside McBain: 63.5% of the expected goals together against 54.5% apart.

270 minutes together, 1,091 minutes apart

It stops working when he is paired with Liam O'Brien

The pairing with O'Brien is the one that costs him: 44.8% of the expected goals together, 57.9% apart.

113 minutes together, 1,248 minutes apart

Teammates play better with him than they do without him

Cooley is a different player beside him: 61.3% of the expected goals with Schmidt, 46.7% without him.

259 minutes together, 473 minutes apart for Cooley

Teammates tend to play worse when he is on their line

Kerfoot does better away from him: 53.2% of the expected goals apart against 46.0% together.

118 minutes together, 239 minutes apart

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

12 of his 16 regular 5v5 partners post a better expected-goal share beside Schmidt than away from him.

partners with at least 100 minutes together and apart

He and Jack McBain are the pair that scares the other team

The pairing that generates most is Schmidt and McBain: 6.71 expected goals an hour.

270 minutes together at 5v5

John Marino is the partner his coach keeps going back to

He spends more 5v5 time with Marino than anyone: 988 minutes, worth 58.1% of the expected goals.

63 goals for, 34 against together

The goals go his team's way when JJ Peterka is out there with him

With Peterka on the ice too, the Mammoth have outscored opponents 25 to 10 at 5v5.

71.4% goal share over 391 minutes

Nothing gets through when he and Barrett Hayton are out together

He gives up least beside Hayton: 3.19 expected goals against an hour.

282 minutes together at 5v5

Nick Schmaltz is who he kills penalties with, almost every time

Killing penalties he is tightest with Schmaltz: 8.83 expected goals against an hour.

73 minutes together short-handed

This is the group his coach trusts with the game

The five the coach goes back to is Schmidt with Crouse, Keller, Marino and Schmaltz, 98 minutes at 5v5.

61.3% of the expected goals, 11 goals for and 6 against

This is the group sent out to kill the hard ones

His most used kill is with Marino, McBain and Schmaltz: 3 goals against in 29 minutes.

6.25 against an hour, 5.4 expected

This is the group that wins him his minutes

His best five is with Carcone, Crouse, Marino and McBain: 77.1% of the expected goals over 31 minutes.

2 goals for, 2 against, 81.0% of the attempts

This group gets caved in every time it goes out

The five that struggles is with Guenther, Keller, Marino and Schmaltz: 39.6% of the expected goals.

2 goals for, 0 against over 34 minutes

His coach keeps shuffling the players around him

Schmidt has played 47 different five-man units at 5v5, 8 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 Schmidt this season.

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

Clayton Keller is the teammate who sets him up more than anyone

Clayton Keller has assisted on 2 of his 5 goals, 40.0% of them.

1 primary, 1 secondary

JJ Peterka is the teammate he sets up more than anyone

He has helped on 3 of JJ Peterka's goals, 17.6% of his own assists.

3 primary, 0 secondary

His assists are the usual mix of first and second passes

47.1% of his assists are primary, the pass that actually made the goal.

8 primary of 17 assists

Almost nothing comes back the other way with him out there

Opponents get 48.84 shot attempts an hour with Schmidt on the ice at 5v5.

13th of 246 defencemen

His line spends the night in the other team's end

At 5v5 the Mammoth generate 56.7% of the expected goals with Schmidt on the ice.

113.3 xGF to 86.6 xGA over 1,361 minutes, 15th of 246 defencemen

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

The Mammoth score 59.8% of the 5v5 goals with Schmidt out there.

73 for, 49 against, 19th of 246 defencemen

His side controls the puck while he is out there

Schmidt's line owns 55.3% of the 5v5 shot attempts.

1,371 for, 1,108 against, 21st of 246 defencemen

His line puts far more rubber on the net than it allows

55.0% of the 5v5 shots on goal go his way when Schmidt is on.

634 for, 519 against, 24th of 246 defencemen

Very little gets through when he is on the ice

He gives up 3.82 expected goals an hour at 5v5.

28th of 246 defencemen

The offence comes alive when he steps on the ice

The Mammoth create 4.99 expected goals an hour at 5v5 with Schmidt on.

32nd of 246 defencemen

His results are about what the underlying play deserves

His 5v5 on-ice percentages add to 102.1, running hot and likely to cool.

11.5% shooting and 90.6% goaltending behind him, 39th of 246 defencemen

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

The Mammoth are up 12 goals with Schmidt on the ice.

84 for, 72 against, 38th of 245 defencemen

His line finishes better than the chances it creates

His line is scoring above the chances it creates: 59.8% of the goals off 56.7% of the expected goals.

3.1 points of goal share above expectation

The kill is about average with him on it

Short-handed he concedes 9.76 expected goals an hour.

18 goals against in 162 minutes, 66th of 156 defencemen

His coach leans on him more than almost anyone

Schmidt plays 19:41 a night, 102nd among defencemen.

1,615 minutes across 82 games

He takes an ordinary share of the penalty killing

He draws 2:02 of penalty kill time a game, 80th among defencemen.

10.0% of his total ice time

The scoreboard moves his team's way when he plays

He is +31 on the season.

18th in the league

He rarely puts a puck on net of his own

He puts 3.2 shots on goal an hour.

768th in the league

He rarely wins the puck back on his own

He takes the puck back 0.52 times an hour.

739th in the league

He gives the puck away more than he should

14 takeaways against 75 giveaways: he loses it far more often than he wins it back.

0.19 takeaways per giveaway

He throws himself in front of pucks more than almost anyone

He blocks 3.53 shots an hour of ice time.

307th in the league

He stays out of the box, which his coach can rely on

He takes 0.82 penalty minutes an hour.

700th most penalty minutes an hour

The points are not coming for him this season

Schmidt produces 0.82 points an hour of ice time.

673rd in the league

The goals have dried up for him this season

He scores 0.19 goals an hour of ice time.

640th in the league

He avoids the physical side of the game

He finishes 2.9 checks an hour.

567th in the league

He starts and finishes plays in about equal measure

He sets up 0.63 assists an hour of ice time.

586th in the league

He gives the puck away about as often as most

He gives it away 2.79 times an hour.

516th most giveaways an hour

A lot of his shots miss the net entirely

59.3% of his unblocked attempts actually hit the net.

86 of 145 unblocked, 186th of 241 defencemen

There is one shot he goes to more than any other

24.1% of his attempts are the slap shot.

56 attempts, 1 goals

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

57.3% of his attempts come from the left side.

133 left, 65 middle, 34 right

He shoots more pucks over a season than almost anybody

Schmidt has taken 232 shot attempts this season.

81 on goal, 59 missed, 87 blocked, 82nd of 241 defencemen

Most of his shots come from a long way out

His average attempt comes from 42.6 feet.

232 located attempts, 155th of 241 defencemen

He rarely gets into the dangerous areas of the ice

21.6% of his attempts come from inside 25 feet.

50 of 232 attempts, 148th of 241 defencemen

He works the outside and rarely gets to the front of the net

21.6% of what he shoots comes from the slot.

50 attempts from inside the home plate, 148th of 241 defencemen

About the usual number of his shots get blocked

37.5% of everything he shoots gets blocked before it arrives.

87 of 232 attempts, 135th of 241 defencemen

He shoots about as often as anyone else

He fires 8.62 attempts an hour of ice time.

232 attempts in 1,615 minutes, 137th of 245 defencemen

His long range shooting is about league average

47.4% of his attempts are fired from beyond 45 feet.

110 long-range attempts, 118th of 241 defencemen

He owns this goalie, and the numbers are not close

Schmidt has scored 2 times on Philipp Grubauer this season, more than on any other goaltender.

2 goals on 9 attempts, 22.2%

This goalie has his number and he cannot solve him

Joel Hofer has turned him away every time: 9 attempts, no goals.

0.0% conversion

One team seems to bring the best out of him

He has 2 goals against the Kraken this season.

12 attempts against them

No goalie has seen more of him than this one

No goalie has seen more of him than Joel Hofer: 9 attempts, 0 goals.

0.0% conversion

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

His deadliest shot is the snap shot: 6.2% of them go in.

3 goals on 48 attempts

The chances he gets in tight almost always go in

From inside 25 feet he buries 4.0% of his attempts.

2 goals on 50 close attempts, 60th of 221 defencemen

There is a range from which his goals almost always come

His goals average 33.1 feet out, and the longest went in from 53.

5 goals located by coordinate

He is not converting the chances he gets

Schmidt has 5 goals off 7.7 expected: 2.7 short of what the chances say.

168th of 241 defencemen

He shoots at about the league's usual rate

He converts 5.8% of the shots he puts on goal.

5 goals on 86 shots, 115th of 241 defencemen

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