Will Cuylle Teammate Impact NHL Stats & Career Totals

Adam Fox is the partner who brings the best out of him

Cuylle is at his best beside Fox: 61.3% of the expected goals together against 48.9% apart.

288 minutes together, 781 minutes apart

It stops working when he is paired with Braden Schneider

The pairing with Schneider is the one that costs him: 46.2% of the expected goals together, 55.7% apart.

367 minutes together, 703 minutes apart

Teammates play better with him than they do without him

Morrow is a different player beside him: 59.3% of the expected goals with Cuylle, 49.2% without him.

102 minutes together, 302 minutes apart for Morrow

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

13 of his 17 regular 5v5 partners post a better expected-goal share beside Cuylle than away from him.

partners with at least 100 minutes together and apart

Teammates tend to play worse when he is on their line

Zibanejad does better away from him: 52.6% of the expected goals apart against 47.4% together.

274 minutes together, 899 minutes apart

He and Scott Morrow are the pair that scares the other team

The pairing that generates most is Cuylle and Morrow: 6.32 expected goals an hour.

102 minutes together at 5v5

Vladislav Gavrikov is the partner his coach keeps going back to

He spends more 5v5 time with Gavrikov than anyone: 422 minutes, worth 55.8% of the expected goals.

12 goals for, 15 against together

The goals go his team's way when Alexis Lafrenière is out there with him

With Lafrenière on the ice too, the Rangers have outscored opponents 10 to 6 at 5v5.

62.5% goal share over 204 minutes

Nothing gets through when he and Alexis Lafrenière are out together

He gives up least beside Lafrenière: 3.27 expected goals against an hour.

204 minutes together at 5v5

Gabe Perreault is who he runs the power play with, almost every time

On the power play his best partner is Perreault: 96.4% of the expected goals over 34 minutes.

3 goals for, 0 against together

Will Borgen is who he kills penalties with, almost every time

Killing penalties he is tightest with Borgen: 7.63 expected goals against an hour.

49 minutes together short-handed

This is the group his coach trusts with the game

The five the coach goes back to is Cuylle with Fox, Gavrikov, Panarin and Zibanejad, 40 minutes at 5v5.

83.0% of the expected goals, 1 goal for and 0 against

This is the group the power play actually runs through

His power-play unit is Miller, Panarin, Trocheck and Zibanejad: 0 goals in 20 minutes.

0.0 goals an hour, 5.3 expected

This is the group sent out to kill the hard ones

His most used kill is with Gavrikov, Schneider and Trocheck: 1 goal against in 15 minutes.

3.96 against an hour, 3.3 expected

His coach keeps shuffling the players around him

Cuylle has been shuffled through 54 different five-man units, and only 1 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

17 teammates have played at least 100 5v5 minutes with Cuylle this season.

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

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

83.3% of his assists are primary, the pass that actually made the goal.

15 primary of 18 assists

Vincent Trocheck is the teammate who sets him up more than anyone

Vincent Trocheck has assisted on 5 of his 20 goals, 25.0% of them.

3 primary, 2 secondary

Mika Zibanejad is the teammate he sets up more than anyone

He has helped on 3 of Mika Zibanejad's goals, 16.7% of his own assists.

2 primary, 1 secondary

One teammate is responsible for most of his goals

15 different teammates have assisted on his 20 goals.

Trocheck (5), Laba (5), Zibanejad (4), Lafrenière (4)

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

The Rangers are down 13 goals with Cuylle on the ice.

60 for, 73 against, 383rd of 466 forwards

His results are about what the underlying play deserves

His 5v5 on-ice percentages add to 101.3, close to neutral.

9.5% shooting and 91.8% goaltending behind him, 142nd of 454 forwards

The power play is a real weapon with him on it

On the power play his unit generates 11.56 expected goals an hour.

12 goals in 117 minutes, 51st of 269 forwards

His line gets badly outshot when it is out there

46.3% of the 5v5 shots on goal go his way when Cuylle is on.

401 for, 466 against, 357th of 454 forwards

Very little gets through when he is on the ice

He gives up 4.02 expected goals an hour at 5v5.

104th of 454 forwards

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

At 5v5 the Rangers generate 52.4% of the expected goals with Cuylle on the ice.

79.0 xGF to 71.7 xGA over 1,070 minutes, 123rd of 454 forwards

The kill leaks goals when he is the one out there

Short-handed he concedes 10.56 expected goals an hour.

13 goals against in 124 minutes, 117th of 180 forwards

The offence runs at about its usual level with him

The Rangers create 4.43 expected goals an hour at 5v5 with Cuylle on.

192nd of 454 forwards

Neither team controls the puck when he is on

Cuylle's line owns 49.1% of the 5v5 shot attempts.

968 for, 1,005 against, 242nd of 454 forwards

He gives up about what an average skater gives up

Opponents get 56.37 shot attempts an hour with Cuylle on the ice at 5v5.

207th of 454 forwards

Goals go both ways evenly when he is on

The Rangers score 50.0% of the 5v5 goals with Cuylle out there.

38 for, 38 against, 204th of 454 forwards

He is not part of the power play plan

He draws 1:33 of power play time a game, 231st among forwards.

8.5% of his total ice time

His coach leans on him more than almost anyone

Cuylle plays 16:52 a night, 140th among forwards.

1,383 minutes across 82 games

He is kept off the penalty kill

He draws 1:36 of penalty kill time a game, 113th among forwards.

9.0% of his total ice time

He plays a heavy game and the other team feels it

He finishes 13.11 checks an hour.

83rd in the league

The scoreboard moves the wrong way when he plays

He is -12 on the season.

825th in the league

He rarely wins the puck back on his own

He takes the puck back 0.39 times an hour.

795th in the league

He spends too much time in the penalty box

He takes 2.82 penalty minutes an hour.

181st most penalty minutes an hour

He scores at a rate very few players match

He scores 0.87 goals an hour of ice time.

223rd in the league

He gives the puck away more than he should

9 takeaways against 56 giveaways: he loses it far more often than he wins it back.

0.16 takeaways per giveaway

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

He puts 6.82 shots on goal an hour.

214th in the league

He is one of the reasons the man advantage scores

On the power play he produces 0.35 points an hour.

266th in the league

He almost never hands the puck to the other team

He gives it away 2.43 times an hour.

672nd most giveaways an hour

He puts up points at a rate very few match

Cuylle produces 1.65 points an hour of ice time.

340th in the league

He wins the draws his team needs him to win

He wins 48.3% of his draws.

205th in the league

He blocks about as many shots as anyone else

He blocks 2.95 shots an hour of ice time.

411th in the league

He starts and finishes plays in about equal measure

He sets up 0.78 assists an hour of ice time.

495th in the league

He finds shooting lanes that most players cannot

26.6% of everything he shoots gets blocked before it arrives.

90 of 338 attempts, 408th of 468 forwards

He shoots more pucks over a season than almost anybody

Cuylle has taken 338 shot attempts this season.

137 on goal, 91 missed, 90 blocked, 82nd of 468 forwards

There is one shot he goes to more than any other

33.1% of his attempts are the wrist shot.

112 attempts, 9 goals

A lot of his shots miss the net entirely

63.3% of his unblocked attempts actually hit the net.

157 of 248 unblocked, 318th of 468 forwards

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

He fires 14.66 attempts an hour of ice time.

338 attempts in 1,383 minutes, 144th of 466 forwards

He gets to the hard areas rather than firing from range

His average attempt comes from 25.2 feet.

338 located attempts, 175th of 468 forwards

He gets almost nothing from long range

13.3% of his attempts are fired from beyond 45 feet.

45 long-range attempts, 280th of 468 forwards

He takes an ordinary share of his shots from close range

54.4% of what he shoots comes from the slot.

184 attempts from inside the home plate, 197th of 468 forwards

He gets to the middle of the ice about as often as most

54.4% of his attempts come from inside 25 feet.

184 of 338 attempts, 205th of 468 forwards

He owns this goalie, and the numbers are not close

Cuylle has scored 3 times on Charlie Lindgren this season, more than on any other goaltender.

3 goals on 15 attempts, 20.0%

This goalie has his number and he cannot solve him

Jet Greaves has turned him away every time: 11 attempts, no goals.

0.0% conversion

Almost everything he puts on this goalie goes in

His deadliest matchup is Charlie Lindgren: 20.0% of his attempts against him go in.

3 goals on 15 attempts

One team seems to bring the best out of him

He has 4 goals against the Capitals this season.

22 attempts against them

No goalie has seen more of him than this one

No goalie has seen more of him than Stuart Skinner: 16 attempts, 1 goal.

6.2% conversion

There is one team he simply cannot get going against

The Blue Jackets have held him without a goal on 20 attempts.

the most attempts he has taken against a club without scoring

There is one opponent he goes looking for all night

Cuylle has finished his check on Carson Soucy 6 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 Ben Chiarot.

penalties drawn, from play-by-play

He keeps taking penalties against this one opponent

David Perron has drawn 2 penalties on him.

penalties taken, from play-by-play

He is not converting the chances he gets

Cuylle has 20 goals off 24.3 expected: 4.3 short of what the chances say.

409th of 468 forwards

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

His deadliest shot is the deflection: 25.0% of them go in.

3 goals on 12 attempts

There is a range from which his goals almost always come

His goals average 22.9 feet out, and the longest went in from 81.

20 goals located by coordinate

The chances in tight are not going in for him

From inside 25 feet he buries 7.1% of his attempts.

13 goals on 184 close attempts, 319th of 468 forwards

He shoots at about the league's usual rate

He converts 12.7% of the shots he puts on goal.

20 goals on 157 shots, 225th of 468 forwards

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