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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jake Evans | 10 | 13 | 42 | 1.0 | 1.5 | 23.8 | 10.0 | 139 |
| Aliaksei Protas | 18 | 18 | 77 | 1.8 | 2.0 | 23.4 | 10.1 | 132 |
| Colton Parayko | 9 | 16 | 86 | 1.9 | 1.8 | 10.5 | 4.8 | 120 |
| Vince Dunn | 8 | 11 | 51 | 2.0 | 2.1 | 15.7 | 7.7 | 105 |
| Artturi Lehkonen | 16 | 6 | 72 | 2.2 | 3.0 | 22.2 | 11.1 | 100 |
| Jonathan Huberdeau | 18 | 14 | 74 | 1.7 | 2.1 | 24.3 | 12.7 | 92 |
| Mikhail Sergachev | 8 | 21 | 70 | 1.6 | 2.4 | 11.4 | 6.1 | 89 |
| Tyler Seguin | 9 | 11 | 43 | 2.3 | 2.7 | 20.9 | 11.2 | 87 |
| Zach Bogosian | 4 | 6 | 51 | 1.2 | 1.9 | 7.8 | 4.2 | 87 |
| Joel Kiviranta | 10 | 4 | 54 | 1.2 | 1.4 | 18.5 | 10.0 | 85 |
| Jakob Chychrun | 12 | 18 | 89 | 2.3 | 3.8 | 13.5 | 7.3 | 85 |
| Valeri Nichushkin | 11 | 6 | 52 | 2.5 | 4.3 | 21.2 | 11.6 | 83 |
| Nick Perbix | 4 | 6 | 42 | 1.1 | 1.3 | 9.5 | 5.2 | 82 |
| Mathieu Olivier | 10 | 7 | 52 | 1.2 | 2.0 | 19.2 | 10.6 | 82 |
| Eric Robinson | 10 | 11 | 54 | 1.2 | 1.9 | 18.5 | 10.4 | 78 |
| Keegan Kolesar | 10 | 9 | 52 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 19.2 | 10.9 | 76 |
| Anze Kopitar | 12 | 28 | 54 | 1.3 | 2.1 | 22.2 | 13.1 | 69 |
| Matt Duchene | 17 | 24 | 77 | 1.8 | 2.7 | 22.1 | 13.5 | 63 |
| Rickard Rakell | 22 | 16 | 117 | 2.5 | 3.0 | 18.8 | 11.5 | 63 |
| Vladislav Namestnikov | 9 | 11 | 44 | 1.0 | 1.4 | 20.5 | 12.7 | 62 |
| Jack Roslovic | 17 | 8 | 84 | 1.9 | 1.9 | 20.2 | 12.6 | 61 |
| Brett Howden | 15 | 6 | 73 | 1.7 | 1.4 | 20.6 | 13.1 | 57 |
| Nick Paul | 11 | 14 | 64 | 1.8 | 1.8 | 17.2 | 11.0 | 57 |
| Patrik Laine | 10 | 2 | 43 | 2.9 | 5.8 | 23.3 | 14.9 | 56 |
| Nick Foligno | 11 | 8 | 62 | 1.4 | 2.0 | 17.7 | 11.4 | 56 |
| Brock Boeser | 15 | 12 | 68 | 1.9 | 2.8 | 22.1 | 14.2 | 56 |
| Jason Zucker | 15 | 16 | 77 | 1.8 | 3.1 | 19.5 | 12.6 | 55 |
| Cam Fowler | 4 | 11 | 41 | 1.3 | 1.6 | 9.8 | 6.3 | 55 |
| Stefan Noesen | 17 | 11 | 99 | 2.2 | 2.4 | 17.2 | 11.1 | 54 |
| Rasmus Andersson | 6 | 12 | 83 | 1.9 | 2.0 | 7.2 | 4.7 | 54 |
| Tom Wilson | 19 | 14 | 99 | 2.3 | 2.9 | 19.2 | 12.4 | 54 |
| Brayden Point | 25 | 22 | 86 | 2.3 | 3.0 | 29.1 | 18.9 | 53 |
| Mats Zuccarello | 11 | 19 | 63 | 2.0 | 2.8 | 17.5 | 11.4 | 53 |
| Kevin Hayes | 7 | 3 | 41 | 1.4 | 2.8 | 17.1 | 11.3 | 51 |
| Alex Ovechkin | 20 | 12 | 102 | 3.6 | 4.2 | 19.6 | 13.0 | 51 |
| Phillip Danault | 3 | 18 | 62 | 1.6 | 2.2 | 4.8 | 10.0 | -51 |
| Connor Murphy | 1 | 12 | 45 | 1.2 | 1.5 | 2.2 | 4.5 | -51 |
| Barclay Goodrow | 2 | 2 | 48 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 4.2 | 8.8 | -52 |
| Patrick Maroon | 2 | 8 | 40 | 1.0 | 1.2 | 5.0 | 10.6 | -53 |
| Darren Raddysh | 1 | 14 | 47 | 1.4 | 2.1 | 2.1 | 4.6 | -53 |
| Ben Chiarot | 1 | 6 | 48 | 1.1 | 1.7 | 2.1 | 4.4 | -53 |
| K'Andre Miller | 2 | 5 | 59 | 1.6 | 1.3 | 3.4 | 7.2 | -53 |
| Andre Burakovsky | 4 | 12 | 64 | 1.5 | 2.7 | 6.3 | 13.4 | -53 |
| Arber Xhekaj | 1 | 4 | 43 | 1.1 | 2.4 | 2.3 | 5.0 | -54 |
| Christian Dvorak | 3 | 9 | 53 | 1.2 | 2.3 | 5.7 | 12.7 | -55 |
| Josh Manson | 1 | 9 | 45 | 1.4 | 2.2 | 2.2 | 4.9 | -55 |
| Ryan McDonagh | 1 | 13 | 44 | 1.0 | 1.3 | 2.3 | 5.2 | -56 |
| Michael Carcone | 3 | 6 | 50 | 1.7 | 3.0 | 6.0 | 14.2 | -58 |
| Aaron Ekblad | 2 | 18 | 76 | 1.9 | 3.6 | 2.6 | 6.6 | -60 |
| Oliver Ekman-Larsson | 2 | 13 | 75 | 1.7 | 2.1 | 2.7 | 6.7 | -60 |
| Adam Fox | 2 | 31 | 70 | 1.6 | 2.1 | 2.9 | 7.3 | -61 |
| Sam Malinski | 1 | 4 | 63 | 1.4 | 4.8 | 1.6 | 4.3 | -63 |
| Carson Soucy | 1 | 5 | 43 | 1.0 | 1.6 | 2.3 | 6.5 | -64 |
| Cody Glass | 1 | 8 | 42 | 1.3 | 3.8 | 2.4 | 8.7 | -73 |
| Alexey Toropchenko | 1 | 6 | 40 | 0.9 | 1.9 | 2.5 | 9.5 | -74 |
| Carl Grundstrom | 1 | 4 | 41 | 1.3 | 2.5 | 2.4 | 9.8 | -75 |
| Jacob Trouba | 0 | 8 | 70 | 1.6 | 2.4 | 0.0 | 4.3 | -100 |
| Zemgus Girgensons | 0 | 2 | 43 | 1.0 | 1.7 | 0.0 | 8.5 | -100 |
| Nils Lundkvist | 0 | 5 | 48 | 1.4 | 1.9 | 0.0 | 3.6 | -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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