Rickard Rakell Matchups NHL Stats & Career Totals

He owns this goalie, and the numbers are not close

Rakell has scored 3 times on Sebastian Cossa this season, more than on any other goaltender.

3 goals on 19 attempts, 15.8%

This goalie has his number and he cannot solve him

Spencer Knight has turned him away every time: 13 attempts, no goals.

0.0% conversion

Almost everything he puts on this goalie goes in

His deadliest matchup is Sebastian Cossa: 15.8% of his attempts against him go in.

3 goals on 19 attempts

One team seems to bring the best out of him

He has 3 goals against the Mammoth this season.

19 attempts against them

No goalie has seen more of him than this one

No goalie has seen more of him than Sebastian Cossa: 19 attempts, 3 goals.

15.8% conversion

One opponent goes out of his way to run him

Kaiden Guhle has hit him 4 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 3 penalties on Uvis Balinskis.

penalties drawn, from play-by-play

He keeps taking penalties against this one opponent

Justin Hryckowian has drawn 3 penalties on him.

penalties taken, from play-by-play

His game is played in the hardest part of the ice

64.0% of his attempts come from inside 25 feet.

55 of 86 attempts, 19th of 257 forwards

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

64.0% of what he shoots comes from the slot.

55 attempts from inside the home plate, 19th of 257 forwards

He gets to the hard areas rather than firing from range

His average attempt comes from 22.6 feet.

86 located attempts, 22nd of 257 forwards

He can beat goalies from further out than most players

8.1% of his attempts are fired from beyond 45 feet.

7 long-range attempts, 40th of 257 forwards

He shoots more pucks over a season than almost anybody

Rakell has taken 86 shot attempts this season.

36 on goal, 25 missed, 20 blocked, 46th of 257 forwards

There is one shot he goes to more than any other

31.4% of his attempts are the wrist shot.

27 attempts, 3 goals

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

47.7% of his attempts come from the middle lane.

17 left, 41 middle, 28 right

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

He fires 20.05 attempts an hour of ice time.

86 attempts in 257 minutes, 59th of 193 forwards

A lot of his shots miss the net entirely

62.1% of his unblocked attempts actually hit the net.

41 of 66 unblocked, 171st of 257 forwards

About the usual number of his shots get blocked

23.3% of everything he shoots gets blocked before it arrives.

20 of 86 attempts, 126th of 257 forwards

He is not converting the chances he gets

Rakell has 5 goals off 6.1 expected: 1.1 short of what the chances say.

190th of 257 forwards

There is a range from which his goals almost always come

His goals average 20.3 feet out, and the longest went in from 36.

5 goals located by coordinate

He finishes in tight at about the usual rate

From inside 25 feet he buries 7.3% of his attempts.

4 goals on 55 close attempts, 148th of 257 forwards

He shoots at about the league's usual rate

He converts 12.2% of the shots he puts on goal.

5 goals on 41 shots, 137th of 257 forwards

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

He has 1 short-handed points this season.

24th in the league

He shoots the puck himself, not just when his line has it

He puts 7.6 shots on goal an hour.

131st in the league

He scores at a rate very few players match

He scores 0.87 goals an hour of ice time.

190th in the league

He is one of the reasons the man advantage scores

On the power play he produces 0.43 points an hour.

191st in the league

He almost never hands the puck to the other team

He gives it away 2.39 times an hour.

192nd fewest giveaways an hour

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

He takes 0.87 penalty minutes an hour.

261st fewest penalty minutes an hour

He puts up points at a rate very few match

Rakell produces 1.74 points an hour of ice time.

264th in the league

He wins the draws his team needs him to win

He wins 50.0% of his draws.

149th in the league

He wins the puck back about as often as most

He takes the puck back 0.87 times an hour.

269th in the league

He starts and finishes plays in about equal measure

He sets up 0.87 assists an hour of ice time.

332nd in the league

The scoreboard is roughly even with him out there

He is -1 on the season.

402nd in the league

He plays about as physical a game as anyone

He finishes 3.48 checks an hour.

356th in the league

He blocks about as many shots as anyone else

He blocks 2.61 shots an hour of ice time.

323rd in the league

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

The Penguins break even with Rakell on the ice.

17 for, 17 against, 121st of 195 forwards

His coach leans on him more than almost anyone

Rakell plays 19:47 a night, 44th among forwards.

257 minutes across 13 games

This is the group the power play actually runs through

His power-play unit is Crosby, Karlsson, Kindel and Malkin: 0 goals in 16 minutes.

0.0 goals an hour, 2.0 expected

His assists are the real ones, the pass that made the goal

87.5% of his assists are primary, the pass that actually made the goal.

7 primary of 8 assists

Erik Karlsson is the teammate who sets him up more than anyone

Erik Karlsson has assisted on 4 of his 7 goals, 57.1% of them.

2 primary, 2 secondary

Tommy Novak is the teammate he sets up more than anyone

He has helped on 3 of Tommy Novak's goals, 37.5% of his own assists.

3 primary, 0 secondary

One teammate is responsible for most of his goals

4 different teammates have assisted on his 7 goals.

Karlsson (4), Korczak (1), Crosby (1), Rust (1)

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