Quinn Hughes Teammate Impact NHL Stats & Career Totals

Ryan Hartman is the partner who brings the best out of him

Hughes is at his best beside Hartman: 58.9% of the expected goals together against 39.9% apart.

382 minutes together, 143 minutes apart

It stops working when he is paired with Kiefer Sherwood

The pairing with Sherwood is the one that costs him: 42.8% of the expected goals together, 55.4% apart.

119 minutes together, 407 minutes apart

Teammates play better with him than they do without him

Garland is a different player beside him: 58.0% of the expected goals with Hughes, 38.6% without him.

153 minutes together, 519 minutes apart for Garland

Teammates tend to play worse when he is on their line

Sherwood does better away from him: 51.8% of the expected goals apart against 42.8% together.

119 minutes together, 425 minutes apart

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

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

partners with at least 100 minutes together and apart

He and Conor Garland are the pair that scares the other team

The pairing that generates most is Hughes and Garland: 6.72 expected goals an hour.

153 minutes together at 5v5

Ryan Hartman is the partner his coach keeps going back to

He spends more 5v5 time with Hartman than anyone: 382 minutes, worth 58.9% of the expected goals.

26 goals for, 19 against together

The goals go his team's way when Yakov Trenin is out there with him

With Trenin on the ice too, the Wild have outscored opponents 11 to 7 at 5v5.

61.1% goal share over 199 minutes

Nothing gets through when he and Ryan Hartman are out together

He gives up least beside Hartman: 4.01 expected goals against an hour.

382 minutes together at 5v5

Ryan Hartman is who he runs the power play with, almost every time

On the power play his best partner is Hartman: 97.9% of the expected goals over 47 minutes.

8 goals for, 0 against together

This group gets caved in every time it goes out

The five that struggles is with Faber, Kaprizov, Yurov and Zuccarello: 36.1% of the expected goals.

2 goals for, 5 against over 56 minutes

This is the group that wins him his minutes

His best five is with Faber, Tarasenko, Trenin and Yurov: 64.7% of the expected goals over 51 minutes.

3 goals for, 1 against, 47.4% of the attempts

This is the group his coach trusts with the game

The five the coach goes back to is Hughes with Faber, Hartman, Kaprizov and Zuccarello, 191 minutes at 5v5.

61.0% of the expected goals, 15 goals for and 11 against

This is the group the power play actually runs through

His power-play unit is Boldy, Eriksson Ek, Kaprizov and Zuccarello: 20 goals in 104 minutes.

11.59 goals an hour, 22.5 expected

His coach keeps shuffling the players around him

Hughes has played 57 different five-man units at 5v5, 7 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

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

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

Mats Zuccarello is the teammate who sets him up more than anyone

Mats Zuccarello has assisted on 2 of his 7 goals, 28.6% of them.

1 primary, 1 secondary

Kirill Kaprizov is the teammate he sets up more than anyone

He has helped on 10 of Kirill Kaprizov's goals, 14.5% of his own assists.

4 primary, 6 secondary

His assists are the usual mix of first and second passes

47.8% of his assists are primary, the pass that actually made the goal.

33 primary of 69 assists

One teammate is responsible for most of his goals

8 different teammates have assisted on his 7 goals.

Zuccarello (2), Faber (1), Kaprizov (1), Hartman (1)

The offence comes alive when he steps on the ice

The Wild create 5.6 expected goals an hour at 5v5 with Hughes on.

6th of 246 defencemen

The power play is a real weapon with him on it

On the power play his unit generates 13.89 expected goals an hour.

15 goals in 119 minutes, 2nd of 85 defencemen

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

The Wild are up 36 goals with Hughes on the ice.

103 for, 67 against, 12th of 245 defencemen

His results are about what the underlying play deserves

His 5v5 on-ice percentages add to 97.5, running cold and likely to correct.

8.1% shooting and 89.4% goaltending behind him, 207th of 246 defencemen

The defence springs leaks when he is out there

He gives up 5.05 expected goals an hour at 5v5.

217th of 246 defencemen

His side controls the puck while he is out there

Hughes's line owns 53.6% of the 5v5 shot attempts.

596 for, 515 against, 38th of 246 defencemen

His line wastes the chances it works so hard to create

His line is being outscored despite the play: 44.7% of the goals off 52.6% of the expected goals.

7.9 points of goal share below expectation

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

At 5v5 the Wild generate 52.6% of the expected goals with Hughes on the ice.

49.1 xGF to 44.2 xGA over 526 minutes, 56th of 246 defencemen

His team keeps getting outscored while he is out there

The Wild score 44.7% of the 5v5 goals with Hughes out there.

21 for, 26 against, 179th of 246 defencemen

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

51.3% of the 5v5 shots on goal go his way when Hughes is on.

259 for, 246 against, 74th of 246 defencemen

He gives up about what an average skater gives up

Opponents get 58.78 shot attempts an hour with Hughes on the ice at 5v5.

146th of 246 defencemen

His coach leans on him more than almost anyone

Hughes plays 27:54 a night, 1st among defencemen.

1,339 minutes across 48 games

His coach puts him out for most of the power play time

He draws 4:35 of power play time a game, 1st among defencemen.

8.9% of his total ice time

He avoids the physical side of the game

He finishes 0.2 checks an hour.

907th in the league

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

He sets up 2.02 assists an hour of ice time.

55th in the league

He is one of the reasons the man advantage scores

On the power play he produces 0.99 points an hour.

55th in the league

He puts up points at a rate very few match

Hughes produces 2.22 points an hour of ice time.

183rd in the league

He gives the puck away more than he should

34 takeaways against 116 giveaways: he loses it far more often than he wins it back.

0.29 takeaways per giveaway

He hands the puck over more than he should

He gives it away 3.39 times an hour.

281st most giveaways an hour

The scoreboard moves the wrong way when he plays

He is -4 on the season.

628th in the league

He takes the puck off people more than almost anyone

He takes the puck back 0.99 times an hour.

327th in the league

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

He takes 0.94 penalty minutes an hour.

654th most penalty minutes an hour

The goals have dried up for him this season

He scores 0.2 goals an hour of ice time.

630th in the league

He puts about as many pucks on net as anyone

He puts 5.47 shots on goal an hour.

417th in the league

He blocks about as many shots as anyone else

He blocks 2.54 shots an hour of ice time.

496th in the league

He gets to the hard areas rather than firing from range

His average attempt comes from 35.0 feet.

476 located attempts, 2nd of 241 defencemen

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

He fires 21.32 attempts an hour of ice time.

476 attempts in 1,339 minutes, 4th of 245 defencemen

He shoots more pucks over a season than almost anybody

Hughes has taken 476 shot attempts this season.

180 on goal, 99 missed, 190 blocked, 5th of 241 defencemen

He can beat goalies from further out than most players

32.1% of his attempts are fired from beyond 45 feet.

153 long-range attempts, 6th of 241 defencemen

His game is played in the hardest part of the ice

32.6% of his attempts come from inside 25 feet.

155 of 476 attempts, 8th of 241 defencemen

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

32.4% of what he shoots comes from the slot.

154 attempts from inside the home plate, 8th of 241 defencemen

There is one shot he goes to more than any other

37.0% of his attempts are the wrist shot.

176 attempts, 3 goals

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

40.3% of his attempts come from the left side.

192 left, 185 middle, 99 right

He finds shooting lanes that most players cannot

39.9% of everything he shoots gets blocked before it arrives.

190 of 476 attempts, 168th of 241 defencemen

When he shoots, it tends to be on target

65.4% of his unblocked attempts actually hit the net.

187 of 286 unblocked, 86th of 241 defencemen

He owns this goalie, and the numbers are not close

Hughes has scored 1 times on Casey DeSmith 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

Mackenzie Blackwood has turned him away every time: 21 attempts, no goals.

0.0% conversion

No goalie has seen more of him than this one

No goalie has seen more of him than Mackenzie Blackwood: 21 attempts, 0 goals.

0.0% conversion

There is one team he simply cannot get going against

The Avalanche have held him without a goal on 19 attempts.

the most attempts he has taken against a club without scoring

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

He has drawn 2 penalties on Ryan O'Reilly.

penalties drawn, from play-by-play

He is not converting the chances he gets

Hughes has 7 goals off 20.3 expected: 13.3 short of what the chances say.

241st of 241 defencemen

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

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

1 goals on 16 attempts

There is a range from which his goals almost always come

His goals average 27.7 feet out, and the longest went in from 49.

7 goals located by coordinate

His shooting has gone cold this season

He converts 3.7% of the shots he puts on goal.

7 goals on 187 shots, 165th of 241 defencemen

The chances in tight are not going in for him

From inside 25 feet he buries 1.9% of his attempts.

3 goals on 155 close attempts, 130th of 221 defencemen

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