Olen Zellweger Teammate Impact NHL Stats & Career Totals

Cutter Gauthier is the partner who brings the best out of him

Zellweger is at his best beside Gauthier: 58.6% of the expected goals together against 47.0% apart.

282 minutes together, 829 minutes apart

It stops working when he is paired with Nikita Nesterenko

The pairing with Nesterenko is the one that costs him: 36.9% of the expected goals together, 51.6% apart.

117 minutes together, 994 minutes apart

Teammates play better with him than they do without him

Gauthier is a different player beside him: 58.6% of the expected goals with Zellweger, 47.9% without him.

282 minutes together, 715 minutes apart for Gauthier

Teammates tend to play worse when he is on their line

Nesterenko does better away from him: 52.8% of the expected goals apart against 36.9% together.

117 minutes together, 205 minutes apart

He and Cutter Gauthier are the pair that scares the other team

The pairing that generates most is Zellweger and Gauthier: 6.15 expected goals an hour.

282 minutes together at 5v5

Jacob Trouba is the partner his coach keeps going back to

He spends more 5v5 time with Trouba than anyone: 436 minutes, worth 48.3% of the expected goals.

26 goals for, 22 against together

The goals go his team's way when Mikael Granlund is out there with him

With Granlund on the ice too, the Sabres have outscored opponents 8 to 4 at 5v5.

66.7% goal share over 190 minutes

Nothing gets through when he and Mason McTavish are out together

He gives up least beside McTavish: 4.13 expected goals against an hour.

284 minutes together at 5v5

This is the group that wins him his minutes

His best five is with Gauthier, McTavish, Sennecke and Trouba: 72.9% of the expected goals over 60 minutes.

4 goals for, 2 against, 60.1% of the attempts

This is the group his coach trusts with the game

The five the coach goes back to is Zellweger with Gauthier, McTavish, Sennecke and Trouba, 60 minutes at 5v5.

72.9% of the expected goals, 4 goals for and 2 against

His coach keeps shuffling the players around him

Zellweger has been shuffled through 49 different five-man units, and only 3 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 Zellweger this season.

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

Troy Terry is the teammate who sets him up more than anyone

Troy Terry has assisted on 3 of his 7 goals, 42.9% of them.

2 primary, 1 secondary

Leo Carlsson is the teammate he sets up more than anyone

He has helped on 4 of Leo Carlsson's goals, 26.7% of his own assists.

1 primary, 3 secondary

His assists are the usual mix of first and second passes

46.7% of his assists are primary, the pass that actually made the goal.

7 primary of 15 assists

One teammate is responsible for most of his goals

9 different teammates have assisted on his 7 goals.

Terry (3), Killorn (3), Sennecke (2), Gudas (1)

Teams struggle to score on him when he is killing penalties

Short-handed he concedes 7.63 expected goals an hour.

5 goals against in 66 minutes, 8th of 156 defencemen

The defence springs leaks when he is out there

He gives up 5.06 expected goals an hour at 5v5.

218th of 246 defencemen

The offence comes alive when he steps on the ice

The Sabres create 5.07 expected goals an hour at 5v5 with Zellweger on.

28th of 246 defencemen

His side controls the puck while he is out there

Zellweger's line owns 53.1% of the 5v5 shot attempts.

1,266 for, 1,117 against, 47th of 246 defencemen

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

The Sabres are up 4 goals with Zellweger on the ice.

67 for, 63 against, 53rd of 245 defencemen

His results are about what the underlying play deserves

His 5v5 on-ice percentages add to 100.4, close to neutral.

10.1% shooting and 90.3% goaltending behind him, 114th of 246 defencemen

The other team gets whatever it wants when he is on

Opponents get 60.33 shot attempts an hour with Zellweger on the ice at 5v5.

178th of 246 defencemen

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

50.9% of the 5v5 shots on goal go his way when Zellweger is on.

554 for, 535 against, 85th of 246 defencemen

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

The Sabres score 51.9% of the 5v5 goals with Zellweger out there.

56 for, 52 against, 86th of 246 defencemen

The power play is ordinary with him on it

On the power play his unit generates 9.41 expected goals an hour.

5 goals in 58 minutes, 39th of 85 defencemen

The run of play is about even when he is on the ice

At 5v5 the Sabres generate 50.0% of the expected goals with Zellweger on the ice.

93.8 xGF to 93.8 xGA over 1,111 minutes, 114th of 246 defencemen

He is not part of the power play plan

He draws 1:15 of power play time a game, 74th among defencemen.

4.5% of his total ice time

He is kept off the penalty kill

He draws 1:30 of penalty kill time a game, 133rd among defencemen.

5.2% of his total ice time

He gets a normal share of the minutes

Zellweger plays 16:58 a night, 179th among defencemen.

1,290 minutes across 76 games

How he gets his points says what kind of player he is

Only 13.6% of his points come on the power play: this is even-strength production.

3 of 22 points with the man advantage

He avoids the physical side of the game

He finishes 1.54 checks an hour.

750th in the league

He gives the puck away more than he should

19 takeaways against 64 giveaways: he loses it far more often than he wins it back.

0.3 takeaways per giveaway

The scoreboard moves his team's way when he plays

He is +4 on the season.

231st in the league

He throws himself in front of pucks more than almost anyone

He blocks 3.91 shots 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 0.14 points an hour.

372nd in the league

He spends too much time in the penalty box

He takes 1.58 penalty minutes an hour.

415th most penalty minutes an hour

He puts about as many pucks on net as anyone

He puts 5.54 shots on goal an hour.

404th in the league

He produces at about the rate you would expect

Zellweger produces 1.02 points an hour of ice time.

580th in the league

He wins the puck back about as often as most

He takes the puck back 0.88 times an hour.

424th in the league

He gives the puck away about as often as most

He gives it away 2.98 times an hour.

431st most giveaways an hour

He starts and finishes plays in about equal measure

He sets up 0.7 assists an hour of ice time.

545th in the league

He scores at about the rate you would expect

He scores 0.33 goals an hour of ice time.

532nd in the league

He can beat goalies from further out than most players

33.8% of his attempts are fired from beyond 45 feet.

102 long-range attempts, 7th of 241 defencemen

He gets to the hard areas rather than firing from range

His average attempt comes from 36.4 feet.

302 located attempts, 9th of 241 defencemen

He shoots the puck far more than most players at his position

He fires 14.04 attempts an hour of ice time.

302 attempts in 1,290 minutes, 25th of 245 defencemen

He shoots more pucks over a season than almost anybody

Zellweger has taken 302 shot attempts this season.

112 on goal, 72 missed, 111 blocked, 44th of 241 defencemen

There is one shot he goes to more than any other

30.1% of his attempts are the wrist shot.

91 attempts, 2 goals

His game is played in the hardest part of the ice

26.2% of his attempts come from inside 25 feet.

79 of 302 attempts, 64th of 241 defencemen

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

59.6% of his attempts come from the left side.

180 left, 75 middle, 47 right

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

25.8% of what he shoots comes from the slot.

78 attempts from inside the home plate, 69th of 241 defencemen

He hits the net about as often as anyone

62.3% of his unblocked attempts actually hit the net.

119 of 191 unblocked, 143rd of 241 defencemen

About the usual number of his shots get blocked

36.8% of everything he shoots gets blocked before it arrives.

111 of 302 attempts, 121st of 241 defencemen

He owns this goalie, and the numbers are not close

Zellweger has scored 1 times on Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen 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

Philipp Grubauer has turned him away every time: 10 attempts, no goals.

0.0% conversion

No goalie has seen more of him than this one

No goalie has seen more of him than Philipp Grubauer: 10 attempts, 0 goals.

0.0% conversion

One opponent goes out of his way to run him

Alex Laferriere has hit him 5 times, more than any other opponent.

hits absorbed, from play-by-play

He gets under this opponent's skin and draws the penalty

He has drawn 2 penalties on Anton Lundell.

penalties drawn, from play-by-play

He is not converting the chances he gets

Zellweger has 7 goals off 11.0 expected: 4.0 short of what the chances say.

199th of 241 defencemen

The chances he gets in tight almost always go in

From inside 25 feet he buries 5.1% of his attempts.

4 goals on 79 close attempts, 42nd of 221 defencemen

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

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

4 goals on 60 attempts

There is a range from which his goals almost always come

His goals average 24.2 feet out, and the longest went in from 59.

7 goals located by coordinate

He shoots at about the league's usual rate

He converts 5.9% of the shots he puts on goal.

7 goals on 119 shots, 112th of 241 defencemen

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