Taylor Ward Teammate Impact NHL Stats & Career Totals

Samuel Helenius is the partner who brings the best out of him

Ward is at his best beside Helenius: 56.4% of the expected goals together against 46.0% apart.

216 minutes together, 102 minutes apart

Teammates play better with him than they do without him

Helenius is a different player beside him: 56.4% of the expected goals with Ward, 43.6% without him.

216 minutes together, 203 minutes apart for Helenius

It stops working when he is paired with Brian Dumoulin

The pairing with Dumoulin is the one that costs him: 47.5% of the expected goals together, 55.9% apart.

131 minutes together, 187 minutes apart

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

Only 1 of his 4 regular 5v5 partners post a better expected-goal share beside Ward than away from him.

partners with at least 100 minutes together and apart

Teammates tend to play worse when he is on their line

Dumoulin does better away from him: 51.7% of the expected goals apart against 47.5% together.

131 minutes together, 1,167 minutes apart

He and Jeff Malott are the pair that scares the other team

The pairing that generates most is Ward and Malott: 5.04 expected goals an hour.

162 minutes together at 5v5

Samuel Helenius is the partner his coach keeps going back to

He spends more 5v5 time with Helenius than anyone: 216 minutes, worth 56.4% of the expected goals.

8 goals for, 7 against together

Nothing gets through when he and Samuel Helenius are out together

He gives up least beside Helenius: 3.81 expected goals against an hour.

216 minutes together at 5v5

This is the group his coach trusts with the game

The five the coach goes back to is Ward with Ceci, Dumoulin, Helenius and Malott, 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, Helenius and Malott: 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

Ward has been shuffled through 11 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

4 teammates have played at least 100 5v5 minutes with Ward this season.

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

Samuel Helenius is the teammate he sets up more than anyone

He has helped on 2 of Samuel Helenius's goals, 50.0% of his own assists.

1 primary, 1 secondary

His line gets badly outshot when it is out there

44.8% of the 5v5 shots on goal go his way when Ward is on.

116 for, 143 against, 389th of 454 forwards

His results are about what the underlying play deserves

His 5v5 on-ice percentages add to 101.8, running hot and likely to cool.

9.5% shooting and 92.3% goaltending behind him, 108th of 454 forwards

The other team gets whatever it wants when he is on

Opponents get 60.71 shot attempts an hour with Ward on the ice at 5v5.

366th of 454 forwards

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

At 5v5 the Kings generate 52.9% of the expected goals with Ward on the ice.

25.2 xGF to 22.5 xGA over 318 minutes, 112th of 454 forwards

The offence comes alive when he steps on the ice

The Kings create 4.76 expected goals an hour at 5v5 with Ward on.

112th of 454 forwards

Very little gets through when he is on the ice

He gives up 4.24 expected goals an hour at 5v5.

170th of 454 forwards

Neither team controls the puck when he is on

Ward's line owns 50.2% of the 5v5 shot attempts.

324 for, 322 against, 176th of 454 forwards

The scoreboard barely moves either way with him out there

The Kings break even with Ward on the ice.

11 for, 11 against, 234th of 466 forwards

Goals go both ways evenly when he is on

The Kings score 50.0% of the 5v5 goals with Ward out there.

11 for, 11 against, 204th of 454 forwards

He is barely used, which tells you where he sits

Ward plays 9:28 a night, 530th among forwards.

341 minutes across 36 games

He rarely wins the puck back on his own

He takes the puck back 0.35 times an hour.

802nd in the league

Blocking shots is not part of how he plays

He blocks 1.58 shots an hour of ice time.

728th in the league

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

He puts 6.69 shots on goal an hour.

226th in the league

He hands the puck over more than he should

He gives it away 3.52 times an hour.

241st most giveaways an hour

He plays a heavy game and the other team feels it

He finishes 6.69 checks an hour.

252nd in the league

Losing draws is a real hole in his game

He wins 40.0% of his draws.

361st in the league

He scores at a rate very few players match

He scores 0.53 goals an hour of ice time.

410th in the league

He starts and finishes plays in about equal measure

He sets up 0.7 assists an hour of ice time.

543rd in the league

He produces at about the rate you would expect

Ward produces 1.23 points an hour of ice time.

498th in the league

He takes about as many penalties as anyone

He takes 1.23 penalty minutes an hour.

527th most penalty minutes an hour

A lot of his shots miss the net entirely

52.8% of his unblocked attempts actually hit the net.

38 of 72 unblocked, 467th of 468 forwards

He finds shooting lanes that most players cannot

27.3% of everything he shoots gets blocked before it arrives.

27 of 99 attempts, 418th of 468 forwards

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

He fires 17.43 attempts an hour of ice time.

99 attempts in 341 minutes, 67th of 466 forwards

He rarely gets into the dangerous areas of the ice

44.4% of his attempts come from inside 25 feet.

44 of 99 attempts, 385th of 468 forwards

Most of his shots come from a long way out

His average attempt comes from 28.9 feet.

99 located attempts, 381st of 468 forwards

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

44.4% of what he shoots comes from the slot.

44 attempts from inside the home plate, 378th of 468 forwards

He barely shoots the puck across a whole season

Ward has taken 99 shot attempts this season.

35 on goal, 34 missed, 27 blocked, 375th of 468 forwards

There is one shot he goes to more than any other

35.4% of his attempts are the wrist shot.

35 attempts, 1 goals

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

41.4% of his attempts come from the right side.

26 left, 32 middle, 41 right

His long range shooting is about league average

13.1% of his attempts are fired from beyond 45 feet.

13 long-range attempts, 273rd of 468 forwards

No goalie has seen more of him than this one

No goalie has seen more of him than Connor Ingram: 7 attempts, 0 goals.

0.0% conversion

The chances in tight are not going in for him

From inside 25 feet he buries 2.3% of his attempts.

1 goals on 44 close attempts, 456th of 468 forwards

His shooting has gone cold this season

He converts 7.9% of the shots he puts on goal.

3 goals on 38 shots, 386th of 468 forwards

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

His deadliest shot is the slap shot: 7.1% of them go in.

1 goals on 14 attempts

He is not converting the chances he gets

Ward has 3 goals off 5.1 expected: 2.1 short of what the chances say.

329th of 468 forwards

There is a range from which his goals almost always come

His goals average 28.5 feet out, and the longest went in from 48.

3 goals located by coordinate

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