Samuel Helenius Teammate Impact NHL Stats & Career Totals

Taylor Ward is the partner who brings the best out of him

Helenius is at his best beside Ward: 56.4% of the expected goals together against 43.6% apart.

216 minutes together, 203 minutes apart

It stops working when he is paired with Joel Edmundson

The pairing with Edmundson is the one that costs him: 43.3% of the expected goals together, 53.2% apart.

105 minutes together, 314 minutes apart

Teammates play better with him than they do without him

Ward is a different player beside him: 56.4% of the expected goals with Helenius, 46.0% without him.

216 minutes together, 102 minutes apart for Ward

Teammates tend to play worse when he is on their line

Malott does better away from him: 61.9% of the expected goals apart against 52.2% together.

235 minutes together, 270 minutes apart

He and Drew Doughty are the pair that scares the other team

The pairing that generates most is Helenius and Doughty: 5.01 expected goals an hour.

121 minutes together at 5v5

Jeff Malott is the partner his coach keeps going back to

He spends more 5v5 time with Malott than anyone: 235 minutes, worth 52.2% of the expected goals.

8 goals for, 10 against together

Nothing gets through when he and Mikey Anderson are out together

He gives up least beside Anderson: 3.48 expected goals against an hour.

135 minutes together at 5v5

This is the group his coach trusts with the game

The five the coach goes back to is Helenius with Ceci, Dumoulin, Malott and Ward, 39 minutes at 5v5.

62.6% of the expected goals, 1 goal for and 1 against

This is the group that wins him his minutes

His best five is with Ceci, Dumoulin, Malott and Ward: 62.6% of the expected goals over 39 minutes.

1 goal for, 1 against, 54.4% of the attempts

His coach keeps shuffling the players around him

Helenius has been shuffled through 14 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

8 teammates have played at least 100 5v5 minutes with Helenius this season.

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

Jeff Malott is the teammate who sets him up more than anyone

Jeff Malott has assisted on 3 of his 5 goals, 60.0% of them.

3 primary, 0 secondary

Taylor Ward is the teammate he sets up more than anyone

He has helped on 3 of Taylor Ward's goals, 75.0% of his own assists.

0 primary, 3 secondary

His line wastes the chances it works so hard to create

His line is being outscored despite the play: 40.7% of the goals off 50.7% of the expected goals.

10.0 points of goal share below expectation

His results are about what the underlying play deserves

His 5v5 on-ice percentages add to 97.6, running cold and likely to correct.

7.1% shooting and 90.4% goaltending behind him, 350th of 454 forwards

His team keeps getting outscored while he is out there

The Kings score 40.7% of the 5v5 goals with Helenius out there.

11 for, 16 against, 369th of 454 forwards

Very little gets through when he is on the ice

He gives up 4.01 expected goals an hour at 5v5.

100th of 454 forwards

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

The Kings are down 5 goals with Helenius on the ice.

11 for, 16 against, 301st of 466 forwards

The offence goes quiet when he steps on the ice

The Kings create 4.12 expected goals an hour at 5v5 with Helenius on.

296th of 454 forwards

His line gets badly outshot when it is out there

48.0% of the 5v5 shots on goal go his way when Helenius is on.

154 for, 167 against, 281st of 454 forwards

Neither team controls the puck when he is on

Helenius's line owns 48.6% of the 5v5 shot attempts.

377 for, 399 against, 268th of 454 forwards

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

At 5v5 the Kings generate 50.7% of the expected goals with Helenius on the ice.

28.8 xGF to 28.0 xGA over 419 minutes, 190th of 454 forwards

He gives up about what an average skater gives up

Opponents get 57.07 shot attempts an hour with Helenius on the ice at 5v5.

234th of 454 forwards

He is barely used, which tells you where he sits

Helenius plays 7:58 a night, 584th among forwards.

423 minutes across 53 games

He plays a heavy game and the other team feels it

He finishes 20.46 checks an hour.

21st in the league

He spends too much time in the penalty box

He takes 7.11 penalty minutes an hour.

25th most penalty minutes an hour

He almost never hands the puck to the other team

He gives it away 1.99 times an hour.

810th most giveaways an hour

He rarely wins the puck back on his own

He takes the puck back 0.57 times an hour.

706th in the league

The scoreboard moves the wrong way when he plays

He is -6 on the season.

706th in the league

He scores at a rate very few players match

He scores 0.71 goals an hour of ice time.

301st in the league

He finishes plays rather than starting them

He sets up 0.57 assists an hour of ice time.

640th in the league

He blocks about as many shots as anyone else

He blocks 2.42 shots an hour of ice time.

526th in the league

He puts about as many pucks on net as anyone

He puts 5.4 shots on goal an hour.

430th in the league

He produces at about the rate you would expect

Helenius produces 1.28 points an hour of ice time.

477th in the league

He wins about half his draws, like most centres

He wins 45.2% of his draws.

272nd in the league

He barely shoots the puck across a whole season

Helenius has taken 84 shot attempts this season.

33 on goal, 24 missed, 22 blocked, 401st of 468 forwards

He finds shooting lanes that most players cannot

26.2% of everything he shoots gets blocked before it arrives.

22 of 84 attempts, 397th of 468 forwards

A lot of his shots miss the net entirely

61.3% of his unblocked attempts actually hit the net.

38 of 62 unblocked, 389th of 468 forwards

There is one shot he goes to more than any other

47.6% of his attempts are the wrist shot.

40 attempts, 3 goals

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

51.2% of his attempts come from the left side.

43 left, 24 middle, 17 right

He rarely gets into the dangerous areas of the ice

47.6% of his attempts come from inside 25 feet.

40 of 84 attempts, 323rd of 468 forwards

He works the outside and rarely gets to the front of the net

47.6% of what he shoots comes from the slot.

40 attempts from inside the home plate, 321st of 468 forwards

Most of his shots come from a long way out

His average attempt comes from 26.9 feet.

84 located attempts, 277th of 468 forwards

He shoots about as often as anyone else

He fires 11.92 attempts an hour of ice time.

84 attempts in 423 minutes, 255th of 466 forwards

His long range shooting is about league average

11.9% of his attempts are fired from beyond 45 feet.

10 long-range attempts, 222nd of 468 forwards

No goalie has seen more of him than this one

No goalie has seen more of him than Jake Allen: 8 attempts, 0 goals.

0.0% conversion

There is one opponent he goes looking for all night

Helenius has finished his check on Noah Juulsen 4 times, more than anyone.

hits delivered, from play-by-play

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

He has drawn 2 penalties on Jacob Melanson.

penalties drawn, from play-by-play

He keeps taking penalties against this one opponent

Jacob Melanson has drawn 2 penalties on him.

penalties taken, from play-by-play

The chances in tight are not going in for him

From inside 25 feet he buries 5.0% of his attempts.

2 goals on 40 close attempts, 396th of 468 forwards

There is a range from which his goals almost always come

His goals average 25.8 feet out, and the longest went in from 35.

5 goals located by coordinate

He scores more than the chances he gets should produce

Helenius has 5 goals off 3.8 expected: 1.2 more than the chances alone say.

182nd of 468 forwards

He shoots at about the league's usual rate

He converts 13.2% of the shots he puts on goal.

5 goals on 38 shots, 214th of 468 forwards

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