Buy-Low and Sell-High: Skaters
Introduction
Welcome to Unsustainable - our weekly look at skaters performing at unsustainable levels. Below, you'll find a data table with an emphasis on shooting percentages. What we know, from years and years of data, is that it is unlikely that a player can maintain a shooting percentage that deviates significantly from his career numbers for long amounts of time (which translates to lots of shots).
The aim of this weekly article is to highlight players, that the data suggests, are playing at levels inconsistent with their actual talent. The last column (Dev) measures the deviation from career levels. As a fantasy hockey manager (at least one in a league that emphasizes goal scoring), you could interpret this data as a player's trade value. Today's article will include the requirements that a player has taken at least 40 shots on goal and has a deviation of at least 50% from his career numbers.
| Player | G | A | S | S/GP | 3YS/GP | SH% | CSH% | DEV |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aliaksei Protas | 16 | 16 | 69 | 1.9 | 2.0 | 23.2 | 9.7 | 139 |
| Artturi Lehkonen | 14 | 6 | 58 | 2.2 | 3.0 | 24.1 | 11.1 | 118 |
| Mikhail Sergachev | 8 | 19 | 61 | 1.6 | 2.4 | 13.1 | 6.1 | 114 |
| Jakob Chychrun | 11 | 14 | 71 | 2.2 | 3.8 | 15.5 | 7.3 | 112 |
| Joel Kiviranta | 10 | 3 | 49 | 1.3 | 1.4 | 20.4 | 10.2 | 101 |
| Eric Robinson | 9 | 11 | 43 | 1.2 | 1.9 | 20.9 | 10.4 | 101 |
| Mathieu Olivier | 9 | 6 | 43 | 1.1 | 2.0 | 20.9 | 10.5 | 99 |
| Anze Kopitar | 12 | 27 | 46 | 1.3 | 2.1 | 26.1 | 13.2 | 98 |
| Jonathan Huberdeau | 16 | 13 | 65 | 1.8 | 2.1 | 24.6 | 12.6 | 95 |
| Tyler Seguin | 9 | 11 | 43 | 2.3 | 2.7 | 20.9 | 11.2 | 87 |
| Keegan Kolesar | 9 | 7 | 45 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 20.0 | 10.9 | 84 |
| Valeri Nichushkin | 11 | 6 | 52 | 2.5 | 4.3 | 21.2 | 11.6 | 83 |
| Nick Paul | 9 | 11 | 45 | 1.6 | 1.8 | 20.0 | 11.0 | 82 |
| Brett Howden | 15 | 4 | 61 | 1.6 | 1.4 | 24.6 | 13.5 | 82 |
| Colton Parayko | 6 | 15 | 73 | 1.9 | 1.8 | 8.2 | 4.6 | 79 |
| Rasmus Andersson | 6 | 10 | 71 | 1.9 | 2.0 | 8.5 | 4.8 | 78 |
| Jack Roslovic | 17 | 8 | 75 | 2.0 | 1.9 | 22.7 | 12.7 | 78 |
| Noah Hanifin | 6 | 12 | 67 | 1.8 | 2.2 | 9.0 | 5.1 | 75 |
| Vladislav Namestnikov | 9 | 10 | 41 | 1.1 | 1.4 | 22.0 | 12.7 | 73 |
| Dmitry Kulikov | 3 | 5 | 41 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 7.3 | 4.3 | 71 |
| Brock Boeser | 14 | 11 | 58 | 2.0 | 2.8 | 24.1 | 14.2 | 70 |
| Alex Ovechkin | 17 | 10 | 77 | 3.7 | 4.2 | 22.1 | 13.0 | 70 |
| Brayden Point | 23 | 20 | 72 | 2.4 | 3.0 | 31.9 | 19.0 | 68 |
| Damon Severson | 6 | 11 | 59 | 1.6 | 1.6 | 10.2 | 6.1 | 66 |
| Kiefer Sherwood | 12 | 7 | 69 | 1.9 | 3.5 | 17.4 | 10.6 | 64 |
| Rickard Rakell | 17 | 14 | 91 | 2.3 | 3.0 | 18.7 | 11.4 | 64 |
| Ivan Barbashev | 15 | 15 | 51 | 1.6 | 1.5 | 29.4 | 18.1 | 63 |
| Matt Duchene | 14 | 19 | 64 | 1.8 | 2.7 | 21.9 | 13.5 | 62 |
| Stefan Noesen | 16 | 11 | 89 | 2.2 | 2.4 | 18.0 | 11.1 | 61 |
| Luke Kunin | 10 | 6 | 58 | 1.5 | 1.9 | 17.2 | 10.9 | 58 |
| Brendan Gallagher | 10 | 7 | 65 | 1.8 | 3.3 | 15.4 | 9.9 | 56 |
| Anthony Cirelli | 14 | 18 | 64 | 1.9 | 2.1 | 21.9 | 14.1 | 55 |
| Jake DeBrusk | 16 | 11 | 81 | 2.3 | 2.8 | 19.8 | 12.9 | 53 |
| Pius Suter | 11 | 8 | 58 | 1.7 | 1.8 | 19.0 | 12.4 | 53 |
| Charlie Coyle | 10 | 3 | 57 | 1.5 | 1.7 | 17.5 | 11.6 | 52 |
| Andrew Copp | 7 | 8 | 42 | 1.1 | 1.9 | 16.7 | 11.1 | 51 |
| Jordan Martinook | 8 | 9 | 63 | 1.7 | 1.9 | 12.7 | 8.5 | 50 |
| Connor Murphy | 1 | 12 | 45 | 1.2 | 1.5 | 2.2 | 4.5 | -51 |
| Jan Rutta | 1 | 4 | 45 | 1.1 | 1.3 | 2.2 | 4.5 | -51 |
| Christian Dvorak | 3 | 9 | 48 | 1.3 | 2.3 | 6.3 | 12.8 | -51 |
| Ryan Hartman | 4 | 4 | 81 | 2.5 | 3.0 | 4.9 | 10.3 | -52 |
| Erik Karlsson | 3 | 23 | 94 | 2.4 | 2.9 | 3.2 | 6.7 | -52 |
| Arber Xhekaj | 1 | 4 | 41 | 1.2 | 2.4 | 2.4 | 5.1 | -52 |
| Adam Larsson | 1 | 6 | 52 | 1.4 | 1.6 | 1.9 | 4.1 | -53 |
| Andre Burakovsky | 3 | 10 | 50 | 1.4 | 2.7 | 6.0 | 13.4 | -55 |
| Michael Carcone | 3 | 6 | 49 | 1.8 | 3.0 | 6.1 | 14.2 | -57 |
| Thomas Chabot | 2 | 15 | 83 | 2.3 | 3.6 | 2.4 | 5.7 | -58 |
| Aaron Ekblad | 2 | 18 | 72 | 1.9 | 3.6 | 2.8 | 6.6 | -58 |
| Ryan Pulock | 1 | 11 | 53 | 1.4 | 2.2 | 1.9 | 4.6 | -59 |
| Alexander Holtz | 2 | 7 | 49 | 1.3 | 2.3 | 4.1 | 10.3 | -60 |
| Sam Malinski | 1 | 4 | 57 | 1.5 | 4.8 | 1.8 | 4.5 | -61 |
| Carson Soucy | 1 | 5 | 42 | 1.2 | 1.6 | 2.4 | 6.5 | -64 |
| Adam Henrique | 3 | 7 | 57 | 1.5 | 2.5 | 5.3 | 15.2 | -65 |
| Oliver Ekman-Larsson | 1 | 12 | 63 | 1.7 | 2.1 | 1.6 | 6.7 | -76 |
| Adam Fox | 1 | 27 | 59 | 1.6 | 2.1 | 1.7 | 7.3 | -77 |
| Nils Lundkvist | 0 | 3 | 41 | 1.5 | 1.9 | 0.0 | 3.8 | -100 |
| Jacob Trouba | 0 | 7 | 60 | 1.7 | 2.4 | 0.0 | 4.4 | -100 |
Legend
G: Goals
A: Assists
S: Shots on goal
S/GP: Shots on goal per game
3YS/GP: Three-year average shots on goal per game
SH%: 2024-2025 shooting percentage
CSH%: Career shooting percentage
DEV: Deviation from career shooting percentage
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