Travis Sanheim Teammate Impact NHL Stats & Career Totals

Sean Couturier is the partner who brings the best out of him

Sanheim is at his best beside Couturier: 57.2% of the expected goals together against 47.9% apart.

410 minutes together, 1,091 minutes apart

It stops working when he is paired with Rodrigo Abols

The pairing with Abols is the one that costs him: 41.4% of the expected goals together, 51.3% apart.

118 minutes together, 1,382 minutes apart

Teammates play better with him than they do without him

Hathaway is a different player beside him: 51.3% of the expected goals with Sanheim, 41.5% without him.

204 minutes together, 397 minutes apart for Hathaway

Teammates tend to play worse when he is on their line

Cates does better away from him: 51.4% of the expected goals apart against 46.7% together.

370 minutes together, 599 minutes apart

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

12 of his 18 regular 5v5 partners post a better expected-goal share beside Sanheim than away from him.

partners with at least 100 minutes together and apart

He and Sean Couturier are the pair that scares the other team

The pairing that generates most is Sanheim and Couturier: 4.72 expected goals an hour.

410 minutes together at 5v5

Cam York is the partner his coach keeps going back to

He spends more 5v5 time with York than anyone: 663 minutes, worth 46.3% of the expected goals.

28 goals for, 27 against together

The goals go his team's way when Tyson Foerster is out there with him

With Foerster on the ice too, the Flyers have outscored opponents 9 to 4 at 5v5.

69.2% goal share over 184 minutes

Nothing gets through when he and Garnet Hathaway are out together

He gives up least beside Hathaway: 3.11 expected goals against an hour.

204 minutes together at 5v5

Owen Tippett is who he runs the power play with, almost every time

On the power play his best partner is Tippett: 96.2% of the expected goals over 44 minutes.

5 goals for, 1 against together

Noah Cates is who he kills penalties with, almost every time

Killing penalties he is tightest with Cates: 6.79 expected goals against an hour.

81 minutes together short-handed

This is the group that wins him his minutes

His best five is with Barkey, Couturier, Tippett and York: 62.1% of the expected goals over 48 minutes.

4 goals for, 5 against, 57.1% of the attempts

This is the group his coach trusts with the game

The five the coach goes back to is Sanheim with Brink, Cates, Foerster and York, 64 minutes at 5v5.

50.0% of the expected goals, 0 goals for and 2 against

This is the group sent out to kill the hard ones

His most used kill is with Couturier, Dvorak and York: 12 goals against in 47 minutes.

15.17 against an hour, 9.8 expected

This group gets caved in every time it goes out

The five that struggles is with Cates, Foerster, Konecny and York: 31.9% of the expected goals.

0 goals for, 0 against over 34 minutes

His coach keeps shuffling the players around him

Sanheim has played 52 different five-man units at 5v5, 8 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

18 teammates have played at least 100 5v5 minutes with Sanheim this season.

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

Matvei Michkov is the teammate who sets him up more than anyone

Matvei Michkov has assisted on 3 of his 11 goals, 27.3% of them.

1 primary, 2 secondary

Trevor Zegras is the teammate he sets up more than anyone

He has helped on 5 of Trevor Zegras's goals, 19.2% of his own assists.

3 primary, 2 secondary

His assists are the usual mix of first and second passes

50.0% of his assists are primary, the pass that actually made the goal.

13 primary of 26 assists

One teammate is responsible for most of his goals

10 different teammates have assisted on his 11 goals.

Michkov (3), Konecny (3), Couturier (2), Cates (2)

The power play is a real weapon with him on it

On the power play his unit generates 12.64 expected goals an hour.

9 goals in 87 minutes, 5th of 85 defencemen

Very little gets through when he is on the ice

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

50th of 246 defencemen

His results are about what the underlying play deserves

His 5v5 on-ice percentages add to 100.7, close to neutral.

11.2% shooting and 89.5% goaltending behind him, 94th of 246 defencemen

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

The Flyers are down 14 goals with Sanheim on the ice.

96 for, 110 against, 167th of 245 defencemen

Almost nothing comes back the other way with him out there

Opponents get 53.99 shot attempts an hour with Sanheim on the ice at 5v5.

70th of 246 defencemen

The offence goes quiet when he steps on the ice

The Flyers create 4.08 expected goals an hour at 5v5 with Sanheim on.

166th of 246 defencemen

His team wins the goal battle while he is on the ice

The Flyers score 52.7% of the 5v5 goals with Sanheim out there.

68 for, 61 against, 78th of 246 defencemen

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

51.0% of the 5v5 shots on goal go his way when Sanheim is on.

607 for, 583 against, 82nd of 246 defencemen

His side chases the puck while he is out there

Sanheim's line owns 48.2% of the 5v5 shot attempts.

1,256 for, 1,350 against, 146th of 246 defencemen

Teams struggle to score on him when he is killing penalties

Short-handed he concedes 9.47 expected goals an hour.

34 goals against in 254 minutes, 61st of 156 defencemen

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

At 5v5 the Flyers generate 50.5% of the expected goals with Sanheim on the ice.

102.1 xGF to 100.2 xGA over 1,500 minutes, 106th of 246 defencemen

He is one of the players his coach trusts to kill penalties

He draws 3:10 of penalty kill time a game, 8th among defencemen.

12.9% of his total ice time

His coach leans on him more than almost anyone

Sanheim plays 24:13 a night, 19th among defencemen.

1,962 minutes across 81 games

He is not part of the power play plan

He draws 1:12 of power play time a game, 77th among defencemen.

4.4% of his total ice time

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

He has 3 short-handed points this season.

19th in the league

The scoreboard moves his team's way when he plays

He is +12 on the season.

103rd in the league

He rarely puts a puck on net of his own

He puts 2.91 shots on goal an hour.

808th in the league

He throws himself in front of pucks more than almost anyone

He blocks 4.62 shots an hour of ice time.

152nd in the league

How he gets his points says what kind of player he is

Only 8.1% of his points come on the power play: this is even-strength production.

3 of 37 points with the man advantage

He avoids the physical side of the game

He finishes 1.41 checks an hour.

773rd in the league

He gives the puck away more than he should

26 takeaways against 105 giveaways: he loses it far more often than he wins it back.

0.25 takeaways per giveaway

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

He takes 0.61 penalty minutes an hour.

758th most penalty minutes an hour

He hands the puck over more than he should

He gives it away 3.21 times an hour.

347th most giveaways an hour

His power play production is about league average

On the power play he produces 0.09 points an hour.

401st in the league

He wins the puck back about as often as most

He takes the puck back 0.8 times an hour.

515th in the league

He starts and finishes plays in about equal measure

He sets up 0.8 assists an hour of ice time.

478th in the league

He produces at about the rate you would expect

Sanheim produces 1.13 points an hour of ice time.

533rd in the league

He scores at about the rate you would expect

He scores 0.34 goals an hour of ice time.

525th in the league

He gets to the hard areas rather than firing from range

His average attempt comes from 38.1 feet.

245 located attempts, 27th of 241 defencemen

He can beat goalies from further out than most players

38.8% of his attempts are fired from beyond 45 feet.

95 long-range attempts, 37th of 241 defencemen

A lot of his shots miss the net entirely

58.3% of his unblocked attempts actually hit the net.

95 of 163 unblocked, 196th of 241 defencemen

He does not shoot, he looks to pass or carry instead

He fires 7.49 attempts an hour of ice time.

245 attempts in 1,962 minutes, 189th of 245 defencemen

There is one shot he goes to more than any other

25.7% of his attempts are the wrist shot.

63 attempts, 4 goals

Defenders get in front of a huge share of his shots

33.5% of everything he shoots gets blocked before it arrives.

82 of 245 attempts, 61st of 241 defencemen

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

26.1% of what he shoots comes from the slot.

64 attempts from inside the home plate, 64th of 241 defencemen

His game is played in the hardest part of the ice

26.1% of his attempts come from inside 25 feet.

64 of 245 attempts, 67th of 241 defencemen

He shoots more pucks over a season than almost anybody

Sanheim has taken 245 shot attempts this season.

84 on goal, 68 missed, 82 blocked, 74th of 241 defencemen

This goalie has his number and he cannot solve him

Stuart Skinner has turned him away every time: 8 attempts, no goals.

0.0% conversion

One team seems to bring the best out of him

He has 2 goals against the Rangers this season.

8 attempts against them

No goalie has seen more of him than this one

No goalie has seen more of him than Stuart Skinner: 8 attempts, 0 goals.

0.0% conversion

There is one team he simply cannot get going against

The Penguins have held him without a goal on 14 attempts.

the most attempts he has taken against a club without scoring

One opponent goes out of his way to run him

Mathieu Olivier has hit him 4 times, more than any other opponent.

hits absorbed, from play-by-play

A remarkable share of his shots end up in the net

He converts 11.6% of the shots he puts on goal.

11 goals on 95 shots, 12th of 241 defencemen

He scores more than the chances he gets should produce

Sanheim has 11 goals off 9.6 expected: 1.4 more than the chances alone say.

25th of 241 defencemen

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

His deadliest shot is the slap shot: 8.7% of them go in.

2 goals on 23 attempts

There is a range from which his goals almost always come

His goals average 37.5 feet out, and the longest went in from 59.

11 goals located by coordinate

The chances he gets in tight almost always go in

From inside 25 feet he buries 3.1% of his attempts.

2 goals on 64 close attempts, 78th of 221 defencemen

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