Zemgus Girgensons Teammate Impact NHL Stats & Career Totals

Pontus Holmberg is the partner who brings the best out of him

Girgensons is at his best beside Holmberg: 59.9% of the expected goals together against 32.7% apart.

670 minutes together, 257 minutes apart

Teammates tend to play worse when he is on their line

D'Astous does better away from him: 58.9% of the expected goals apart against 50.4% together.

262 minutes together, 891 minutes apart

It stops working when he is paired with Erik Cernak

The pairing with Cernak is the one that costs him: 49.7% of the expected goals together, 54.1% apart.

282 minutes together, 645 minutes apart

Teammates play better with him than they do without him

McDonagh is a different player beside him: 56.1% of the expected goals with Girgensons, 53.3% without him.

232 minutes together, 499 minutes apart for McDonagh

He and Darren Raddysh are the pair that scares the other team

The pairing that generates most is Girgensons and Raddysh: 5.09 expected goals an hour.

296 minutes together at 5v5

Yanni Gourde is the partner his coach keeps going back to

He spends more 5v5 time with Gourde than anyone: 774 minutes, worth 57.2% of the expected goals.

21 goals for, 22 against together

The goals go his team's way when Darren Raddysh is out there with him

With Raddysh on the ice too, the Lightning have outscored opponents 12 to 6 at 5v5.

66.7% goal share over 296 minutes

Nothing gets through when he and Ryan McDonagh are out together

He gives up least beside McDonagh: 3.25 expected goals against an hour.

232 minutes together at 5v5

J.J. Moser is who he kills penalties with, almost every time

Killing penalties he is tightest with Moser: 6.87 expected goals against an hour.

61 minutes together short-handed

This is the group that wins him his minutes

His best five is with Gourde, Holmberg, Moser and Raddysh: 66.0% of the expected goals over 173 minutes.

8 goals for, 4 against, 57.8% of the attempts

This is the group his coach trusts with the game

The five the coach goes back to is Girgensons with Gourde, Holmberg, Moser and Raddysh, 173 minutes at 5v5.

66.0% of the expected goals, 8 goals for and 4 against

This is the group sent out to kill the hard ones

His most used kill is with Cernak, Gourde and McDonagh: 2 goals against in 21 minutes.

5.75 against an hour, 4.1 expected

His coach keeps shuffling the players around him

Girgensons has played 28 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

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

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

Yanni Gourde is the teammate who sets him up more than anyone

Yanni Gourde has assisted on 8 of his 9 goals, 88.9% of them.

6 primary, 2 secondary

Pontus Holmberg is the teammate he sets up more than anyone

He has helped on 2 of Pontus Holmberg's goals, 18.2% of his own assists.

1 primary, 1 secondary

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

36.4% of his assists are primary, the pass that actually made the goal.

4 primary of 11 assists

One teammate is responsible for most of his goals

6 different teammates have assisted on his 9 goals.

Gourde (8), Holmberg (5), McDonagh (1), Moser (1)

Teams struggle to score on him when he is killing penalties

Short-handed he concedes 7.81 expected goals an hour.

16 goals against in 142 minutes, 17th of 180 forwards

Very little gets through when he is on the ice

He gives up 3.77 expected goals an hour at 5v5.

48th of 454 forwards

Almost nothing comes back the other way with him out there

Opponents get 50.67 shot attempts an hour with Girgensons on the ice at 5v5.

55th of 454 forwards

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

The Lightning are down 14 goals with Girgensons on the ice.

31 for, 45 against, 395th of 466 forwards

His results are about what the underlying play deserves

His 5v5 on-ice percentages add to 100.4, close to neutral.

7.5% shooting and 92.9% goaltending behind him, 180th of 454 forwards

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

At 5v5 the Lightning generate 52.9% of the expected goals with Girgensons on the ice.

65.4 xGF to 58.2 xGA over 927 minutes, 112th of 454 forwards

His side controls the puck while he is out there

Girgensons's line owns 50.4% of the 5v5 shot attempts.

797 for, 783 against, 169th of 454 forwards

Shots even out when he is on the ice

48.5% of the 5v5 shots on goal go his way when Girgensons is on.

346 for, 368 against, 258th of 454 forwards

The offence runs at about its usual level with him

The Lightning create 4.23 expected goals an hour at 5v5 with Girgensons on.

253rd of 454 forwards

Goals go both ways evenly when he is on

The Lightning score 50.0% of the 5v5 goals with Girgensons out there.

26 for, 26 against, 204th of 454 forwards

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

He draws 1:59 of penalty kill time a game, 62nd among forwards.

13.0% of his total ice time

His coach leans on him more than almost anyone

Girgensons plays 14:46 a night, 246th among forwards.

1,093 minutes across 74 games

He plays a heavy game and the other team feels it

He finishes 10.71 checks an hour.

125th in the league

He rarely wins the puck back on his own

He takes the puck back 0.33 times an hour.

805th in the league

He gives the puck away more than he should

6 takeaways against 42 giveaways: he loses it far more often than he wins it back.

0.14 takeaways per giveaway

He almost never hands the puck to the other team

He gives it away 2.31 times an hour.

715th most giveaways an hour

The scoreboard moves his team's way when he plays

He is +1 on the season.

311th in the league

He spends too much time in the penalty box

He takes 1.7 penalty minutes an hour.

384th most penalty minutes an hour

He scores at about the rate you would expect

He scores 0.49 goals an hour of ice time.

427th in the league

He starts and finishes plays in about equal measure

He sets up 0.6 assists an hour of ice time.

608th in the league

He blocks about as many shots as anyone else

He blocks 2.42 shots an hour of ice time.

525th in the league

He produces at about the rate you would expect

Girgensons produces 1.1 points an hour of ice time.

544th in the league

He puts about as many pucks on net as anyone

He puts 5 shots on goal an hour.

492nd in the league

He wins about half his draws, like most centres

He wins 44.6% of his draws.

286th in the league

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

64.2% of what he shoots comes from the slot.

113 attempts from inside the home plate, 57th of 468 forwards

His game is played in the hardest part of the ice

64.2% of his attempts come from inside 25 feet.

113 of 176 attempts, 58th of 468 forwards

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

He fires 9.66 attempts an hour of ice time.

176 attempts in 1,093 minutes, 382nd of 466 forwards

There is one shot he goes to more than any other

22.7% of his attempts are the wrist shot.

40 attempts, 3 goals

He gets to the hard areas rather than firing from range

His average attempt comes from 24.1 feet.

176 located attempts, 116th of 468 forwards

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

49.4% of his attempts come from the middle lane.

49 left, 87 middle, 40 right

A lot of his shots miss the net entirely

63.1% of his unblocked attempts actually hit the net.

89 of 141 unblocked, 328th of 468 forwards

Defenders get in front of a huge share of his shots

19.9% of everything he shoots gets blocked before it arrives.

35 of 176 attempts, 158th of 468 forwards

He can beat goalies from further out than most players

10.8% of his attempts are fired from beyond 45 feet.

19 long-range attempts, 181st of 468 forwards

He takes about as many shots over a season as anyone

Girgensons has taken 176 shot attempts this season.

80 on goal, 52 missed, 35 blocked, 261st of 468 forwards

He owns this goalie, and the numbers are not close

Girgensons has scored 1 times on Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen this season, more than on any other goaltender.

1 goals on 6 attempts, 16.7%

This goalie has his number and he cannot solve him

Ilya Sorokin has turned him away every time: 7 attempts, no goals.

0.0% conversion

One team seems to bring the best out of him

He has 2 goals against the Panthers this season.

11 attempts against them

No goalie has seen more of him than this one

No goalie has seen more of him than Igor Shesterkin: 8 attempts, 1 goal.

12.5% conversion

He wins the draw against this centre almost every time

He wins 66.7% of his draws against Nathan MacKinnon.

8 of 12 faceoffs

This centre beats him on the draw almost every time

Vincent Trocheck beats him on the draw: he wins only 30.8% of them.

4 of 13 faceoffs

There is one opponent he goes looking for all night

Girgensons has finished his check on Zach Metsa 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 Andrei Svechnikov.

penalties drawn, from play-by-play

He keeps taking penalties against this one opponent

Mikhail Sergachev has drawn 2 penalties on him.

penalties taken, from play-by-play

He is not converting the chances he gets

Girgensons has 9 goals off 13.4 expected: 4.4 short of what the chances say.

411th of 468 forwards

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

His deadliest shot is the snap shot: 9.4% of them go in.

3 goals on 32 attempts

There is a range from which his goals almost always come

His goals average 16.9 feet out, and the longest went in from 44.

9 goals located by coordinate

His shooting has gone cold this season

He converts 10.1% of the shots he puts on goal.

9 goals on 89 shots, 319th of 468 forwards

The chances in tight are not going in for him

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

8 goals on 113 close attempts, 319th of 468 forwards

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