Nicolas Hague Teammate Impact NHL Stats & Career Totals

Luke Evangelista is the partner who brings the best out of him

Hague is at his best beside Evangelista: 67.5% of the expected goals together against 47.6% apart.

283 minutes together, 768 minutes apart

It stops working when he is paired with Jonathan Marchessault

The pairing with Marchessault is the one that costs him: 40.6% of the expected goals together, 57.4% apart.

235 minutes together, 817 minutes apart

Teammates play better with him than they do without him

Schaefer is a different player beside him: 60.4% of the expected goals with Hague, 38.6% without him.

137 minutes together, 309 minutes apart for Schaefer

Teammates tend to play worse when he is on their line

Marchessault does better away from him: 48.5% of the expected goals apart against 40.6% together.

235 minutes together, 573 minutes apart

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

14 of his 19 regular 5v5 partners post a better expected-goal share beside Hague than away from him.

partners with at least 100 minutes together and apart

He and Luke Evangelista are the pair that scares the other team

The pairing that generates most is Hague and Evangelista: 6.48 expected goals an hour.

283 minutes together at 5v5

Nick Blankenburg is the partner his coach keeps going back to

He spends more 5v5 time with Blankenburg than anyone: 368 minutes, worth 57.5% of the expected goals.

11 goals for, 13 against together

The goals go his team's way when Filip Forsberg is out there with him

With Forsberg on the ice too, the Predators have outscored opponents 14 to 8 at 5v5.

63.6% goal share over 296 minutes

Nothing gets through when he and Michael McCarron are out together

He gives up least beside McCarron: 2.92 expected goals against an hour.

182 minutes together at 5v5

Ryan O'Reilly is who he kills penalties with, almost every time

Killing penalties he is tightest with O'Reilly: 5.9 expected goals against an hour.

54 minutes together short-handed

This is the group his coach trusts with the game

The five the coach goes back to is Hague with Blankenburg, Evangelista, Forsberg and O'Reilly, 38 minutes at 5v5.

75.0% of the expected goals, 4 goals for and 0 against

This is the group that wins him his minutes

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

0 goals for, 0 against, 60.9% of the attempts

His coach keeps shuffling the players around him

Hague has been shuffled through 46 different five-man units, and only 2 of them have settled.

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

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

19 teammates have played at least 100 5v5 minutes with Hague this season.

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

Ryan O'Reilly is the teammate he sets up more than anyone

He has helped on 3 of Ryan O'Reilly's goals, 25.0% of his own assists.

1 primary, 2 secondary

His assists are the usual mix of first and second passes

41.7% of his assists are primary, the pass that actually made the goal.

5 primary of 12 assists

Teams struggle to score on him when he is killing penalties

Short-handed he concedes 6.7 expected goals an hour.

13 goals against in 129 minutes, 4th of 156 defencemen

His line wastes the chances it works so hard to create

His line is being outscored despite the play: 43.7% of the goals off 53.4% of the expected goals.

9.7 points of goal share below expectation

The goals go the wrong way when he is on the ice

The Predators are down 23 goals with Hague on the ice.

43 for, 66 against, 213th of 246 defencemen

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

At 5v5 the Predators generate 53.4% of the expected goals with Hague on the ice.

83.7 xGF to 73.1 xGA over 1,051 minutes, 48th of 245 defencemen

His results are about what the underlying play deserves

His 5v5 on-ice percentages add to 98.9, close to neutral.

8.5% shooting and 90.4% goaltending behind him, 166th of 245 defencemen

The offence comes alive when he steps on the ice

The Predators create 4.78 expected goals an hour at 5v5 with Hague on.

50th of 245 defencemen

His team keeps getting outscored while he is out there

The Predators score 43.7% of the 5v5 goals with Hague out there.

38 for, 49 against, 187th of 245 defencemen

His line gets badly outshot when it is out there

46.7% of the 5v5 shots on goal go his way when Hague is on.

447 for, 510 against, 180th of 245 defencemen

Very little gets through when he is on the ice

He gives up 4.17 expected goals an hour at 5v5.

77th of 245 defencemen

Neither team controls the puck when he is on

Hague's line owns 50.2% of the 5v5 shot attempts.

1,017 for, 1,010 against, 104th of 245 defencemen

He gives up about what an average skater gives up

Opponents get 57.63 shot attempts an hour with Hague on the ice at 5v5.

130th of 245 defencemen

His coach leans on him more than almost anyone

Hague plays 19:37 a night, 105th among defencemen.

1,217 minutes across 62 games

He takes an ordinary share of the penalty killing

He draws 2:15 of penalty kill time a game, 68th among defencemen.

10.6% of his total ice time

He rarely puts a puck on net of his own

He puts 2.81 shots on goal an hour.

822nd in the league

The scoreboard moves the wrong way when he plays

He is -10 on the season.

792nd in the league

He chips in points even when his team is a man down

He has 1 short-handed points this season.

152nd in the league

He almost never hands the puck to the other team

He gives it away 2.22 times an hour.

754th most giveaways an hour

He gives the puck away more than he should

15 takeaways against 45 giveaways: he loses it far more often than he wins it back.

0.33 takeaways per giveaway

He spends too much time in the penalty box

He takes 2.32 penalty minutes an hour.

258th most penalty minutes an hour

The points are not coming for him this season

Hague produces 0.74 points an hour of ice time.

700th in the league

The goals have dried up for him this season

He scores 0.15 goals an hour of ice time.

670th in the league

He starts and finishes plays in about equal measure

He sets up 0.59 assists an hour of ice time.

622nd in the league

He wins the puck back about as often as most

He takes the puck back 0.74 times an hour.

563rd in the league

He plays about as physical a game as anyone

He finishes 3.75 checks an hour.

483rd in the league

He blocks about as many shots as anyone else

He blocks 2.62 shots an hour of ice time.

482nd in the league

He finds shooting lanes that most players cannot

44.6% of everything he shoots gets blocked before it arrives.

74 of 166 attempts, 218th of 241 defencemen

There is one shot he goes to more than any other

23.5% of his attempts are the wrist shot.

39 attempts, 1 goals

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

61.4% of his attempts come from the left side.

102 left, 42 middle, 22 right

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

25.9% of what he shoots comes from the slot.

43 attempts from inside the home plate, 67th of 241 defencemen

His game is played in the hardest part of the ice

25.9% of his attempts come from inside 25 feet.

43 of 166 attempts, 70th of 241 defencemen

He gets to the hard areas rather than firing from range

His average attempt comes from 40.0 feet.

166 located attempts, 72nd of 241 defencemen

A lot of his shots miss the net entirely

60.9% of his unblocked attempts actually hit the net.

56 of 92 unblocked, 164th of 241 defencemen

He can beat goalies from further out than most players

43.4% of his attempts are fired from beyond 45 feet.

72 long-range attempts, 78th of 241 defencemen

He does not shoot, he looks to pass or carry instead

He fires 8.18 attempts an hour of ice time.

166 attempts in 1,217 minutes, 156th of 246 defencemen

He takes about as many shots over a season as anyone

Hague has taken 166 shot attempts this season.

53 on goal, 36 missed, 74 blocked, 137th of 241 defencemen

He owns this goalie, and the numbers are not close

Hague has scored 1 times on Jake Oettinger 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

Dan Vladar has turned him away every time: 9 attempts, no goals.

0.0% conversion

No goalie has seen more of him than this one

No goalie has seen more of him than Dan Vladar: 9 attempts, 0 goals.

0.0% conversion

The chances in tight are not going in for him

From inside 25 feet he buries 0.0% of his attempts.

0 goals on 43 close attempts, 144th of 221 defencemen

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

His deadliest shot is the slap shot: 6.7% of them go in.

2 goals on 30 attempts

There is a range from which his goals almost always come

His goals average 56.9 feet out, and the longest went in from 61.

3 goals located by coordinate

He is not converting the chances he gets

Hague has 3 goals off 5.4 expected: 2.4 short of what the chances say.

150th of 241 defencemen

He shoots at about the league's usual rate

He converts 5.4% of the shots he puts on goal.

3 goals on 56 shots, 124th of 241 defencemen

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