Sam Dickinson Teammate Impact NHL Stats & Career Totals

Kiefer Sherwood is the partner who brings the best out of him

Dickinson is at his best beside Sherwood: 61.8% of the expected goals together against 46.2% apart.

115 minutes together, 967 minutes apart

It stops working when he is paired with Vincent Iorio

The pairing with Iorio is the one that costs him: 37.2% of the expected goals together, 49.5% apart.

113 minutes together, 968 minutes apart

Teammates play better with him than they do without him

Sherwood is a different player beside him: 61.8% of the expected goals with Dickinson, 45.7% without him.

115 minutes together, 430 minutes apart for Sherwood

Teammates tend to play worse when he is on their line

Iorio does better away from him: 47.1% of the expected goals apart against 37.2% together.

113 minutes together, 192 minutes apart

He and Kiefer Sherwood are the pair that scares the other team

The pairing that generates most is Dickinson and Sherwood: 6.14 expected goals an hour.

115 minutes together at 5v5

Vincent Desharnais is the partner his coach keeps going back to

He spends more 5v5 time with Desharnais than anyone: 355 minutes, worth 51.9% of the expected goals.

15 goals for, 16 against together

The goals go his team's way when Collin Graf is out there with him

With Graf on the ice too, the Sharks have outscored opponents 15 to 11 at 5v5.

57.7% goal share over 284 minutes

Nothing gets through when he and Alexander Wennberg are out together

He gives up least beside Wennberg: 3.66 expected goals against an hour.

226 minutes together at 5v5

This is the group his coach trusts with the game

The five the coach goes back to is Dickinson with Desharnais, Eklund, Misa and Toffoli, 34 minutes at 5v5.

62.4% of the expected goals, 3 goals for and 1 against

This is the group that wins him his minutes

His best five is with Celebrini, Desharnais, Graf and Smith: 65.6% of the expected goals over 33 minutes.

2 goals for, 0 against, 52.5% of the attempts

This group gets caved in every time it goes out

The five that struggles is with Desharnais, Goodrow, Ostapchuk and Reaves: 37.7% of the expected goals.

0 goals for, 0 against over 33 minutes

His coach keeps shuffling the players around him

Dickinson has played 47 different five-man units at 5v5, 4 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 Dickinson this season.

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

Tyler Toffoli is the teammate he sets up more than anyone

He has helped on 3 of Tyler Toffoli's goals, 23.1% of his own assists.

2 primary, 1 secondary

Most of his assists are second touches, not the key pass

30.8% of his assists are primary, the pass that actually made the goal.

4 primary of 13 assists

Teams struggle to score on him when he is killing penalties

Short-handed he concedes 8.67 expected goals an hour.

10 goals against in 65 minutes, 32nd of 156 defencemen

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

The Sharks are down 15 goals with Dickinson on the ice.

56 for, 71 against, 176th of 245 defencemen

His results are about what the underlying play deserves

His 5v5 on-ice percentages add to 99.9, close to neutral.

11.2% shooting and 88.7% goaltending behind him, 134th of 246 defencemen

The defence springs leaks when he is out there

He gives up 4.71 expected goals an hour at 5v5.

176th of 246 defencemen

His side chases the puck while he is out there

Dickinson's line owns 47.2% of the 5v5 shot attempts.

953 for, 1,065 against, 172nd of 246 defencemen

His line gets badly outshot when it is out there

47.4% of the 5v5 shots on goal go his way when Dickinson is on.

446 for, 494 against, 165th of 246 defencemen

Play tilts towards his own net when he is out there

At 5v5 the Sharks generate 48.0% of the expected goals with Dickinson on the ice.

78.4 xGF to 84.8 xGA over 1,082 minutes, 152nd of 246 defencemen

The other team gets whatever it wants when he is on

Opponents get 59.08 shot attempts an hour with Dickinson on the ice at 5v5.

153rd of 246 defencemen

His team keeps getting outscored while he is out there

The Sharks score 47.2% of the 5v5 goals with Dickinson out there.

50 for, 56 against, 148th of 246 defencemen

The offence runs at about its usual level with him

The Sharks create 4.35 expected goals an hour at 5v5 with Dickinson on.

113th of 246 defencemen

He is kept off the penalty kill

He draws 1:17 of penalty kill time a game, 145th among defencemen.

5.4% of his total ice time

He gets a normal share of the minutes

Dickinson plays 16:45 a night, 187th among defencemen.

1,206 minutes across 72 games

He hands the puck over more than he should

He gives it away 4.13 times an hour.

107th most giveaways an hour

He gives the puck away more than he should

20 takeaways against 83 giveaways: he loses it far more often than he wins it back.

0.24 takeaways per giveaway

He rarely puts a puck on net of his own

He puts 3.58 shots on goal an hour.

716th in the league

The goals have dried up for him this season

He scores 0.05 goals an hour of ice time.

743rd in the league

The scoreboard moves the wrong way when he plays

He is -5 on the season.

671st in the league

The points are not coming for him this season

Dickinson produces 0.7 points an hour of ice time.

722nd in the league

He takes the puck off people more than almost anyone

He takes the puck back 0.99 times an hour.

324th in the league

He throws himself in front of pucks more than almost anyone

He blocks 3.38 shots an hour of ice time.

334th in the league

He takes about as many penalties as anyone

He takes 1.09 penalty minutes an hour.

593rd most penalty minutes an hour

He starts and finishes plays in about equal measure

He sets up 0.65 assists an hour of ice time.

578th in the league

He plays about as physical a game as anyone

He finishes 3.68 checks an hour.

486th in the league

A lot of his shots miss the net entirely

58.7% of his unblocked attempts actually hit the net.

71 of 121 unblocked, 193rd of 241 defencemen

There is one shot he goes to more than any other

32.1% of his attempts are the wrist shot.

63 attempts, 1 goals

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

69.4% of his attempts come from the left side.

136 left, 43 middle, 17 right

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

25.0% of what he shoots comes from the slot.

49 attempts from inside the home plate, 85th of 241 defencemen

His game is played in the hardest part of the ice

25.0% of his attempts come from inside 25 feet.

49 of 196 attempts, 85th of 241 defencemen

He can beat goalies from further out than most players

44.4% of his attempts are fired from beyond 45 feet.

87 long-range attempts, 89th of 241 defencemen

He finds shooting lanes that most players cannot

38.3% of everything he shoots gets blocked before it arrives.

75 of 196 attempts, 150th of 241 defencemen

He shoots about as often as anyone else

He fires 9.75 attempts an hour of ice time.

196 attempts in 1,206 minutes, 99th of 245 defencemen

He takes about as many shots over a season as anyone

Dickinson has taken 196 shot attempts this season.

70 on goal, 50 missed, 75 blocked, 111th of 241 defencemen

He shoots from about where everyone else shoots from

His average attempt comes from 41.3 feet.

196 located attempts, 117th of 241 defencemen

No goalie has seen more of him than this one

No goalie has seen more of him than Connor Ingram: 10 attempts, 0 goals.

0.0% conversion

One opponent goes out of his way to run him

Zachary Bolduc has hit him 4 times, more than any other opponent.

hits absorbed, from play-by-play

He is not converting the chances he gets

Dickinson has 1 goals off 6.5 expected: 5.5 short of what the chances say.

227th of 241 defencemen

His shooting has gone cold this season

He converts 1.4% of the shots he puts on goal.

1 goals on 71 shots, 211th of 241 defencemen

He finishes in tight at about the usual rate

From inside 25 feet he buries 2.0% of his attempts.

1 goals on 49 close attempts, 123rd of 221 defencemen

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