Phil Kessel — stats, projections, finishing and game log

How good

Among 980 forwards, 2021-22 to 2026-27

Pool: every forward who played in those seasons · Sample: 168 games

Top quarter of his pool in assists and shots on goal.

Production

Production: percentile among 980 forwards, and the adjusted per-game rate it was computed from
Stat	Pctl	Adjusted per game
Points	78	0.50
Goals	50	0.14
Assists	84	0.35
Shots on goal	81	1.87
Power-play points	81	0.12

Style and role

Style and role: percentile among 980 forwards, and the adjusted per-game rate it was computed from
Stat	Pctl	Adjusted per game
Hits	2	0.25
Blocked shots	19	0.38
Penalty minutes	56	0.42

Further right means more, not better: hits, blocked shots and penalty minutes describe a role, not quality.

What adjusted per game means — not his recorded rate

Adjusted per game is the rate each percentile was computed from: his recorded rate, weighted toward recent games and pulled toward the league average by sample size, so a short career does not read as an elite one. It sits closer to average than the rate recorded, so a skater with no points in his games can still show points per game above zero.

How he got here

Each regular season

Stat

PTS G A SOG PPP HIT BLK PIM

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Per GP Totals

Power-play points, regular season. Filled dots are finished seasons. GP: games played.

Shooting

Where he shoots, and how he finishes

Shot density · 2022-23 · open play, regular season

FewerMore attempts, up to this skater’s busiest cell

7 more attempts came from outside the offensive zone and are not in the grid.

Open play · regular season · goals

Goals against a league-average finisher, by season

In 2022-23 he scored 14 where a league-average finisher would score 12.8 from his chances: 1.2 more.

2022-23 · on the rink14 G · 12.8 avg · +1.2 · 72 GP
2021-228 G · 17.4 avg · −9.4 · 72 GP

Goals
A league-average finisher

What the ring counts — what a league-average finisher would score from the same attempts

The shot model prices the chance of a goal on every unblocked attempt he took in open play during the regular season; shootouts and penalty shots are left out. Those chances are scaled so that, across the league, they add up to the goals actually scored that season, so the ring is what a league-average finisher would have scored from his attempts and each season is measured against its own average. The gap is his goals minus that; the table below lists the exact figures.

Finishing against the league average · open play, regular season

Finishing by season: goals against a league-average finisher on the same attempts
Season		G
2022-23	12.8	14	+1.2	72	199
2021-22	17.4	8	−9.4	72	230

G vs avg: goals minus what a league-average finisher would score from the same attempts (Exp G, the model’s expected goals scaled to that season’s league-wide scoring).

Detail

The record

Playoffs

Games

Regular season Playoffs

Playoffs, by season
Season		G	A	P
2022-23	4	0	2	2	0.50	5	11:47

2022-23 regular season by strength · G-A-P

Even strength: 12 goals, 15 assists, 27 points
Power play: 2 goals, 7 assists, 9 points
Shorthanded: 0 goals, 0 assists, 0 points

Penalty-shot goals are not counted here: each one leaves these a goal and a point below his regular-season totals.

Last 10 games

Last 10 games, newest first
Date	Opp		G	A	HIT	BLK	PIM
Apr 24	@ WPG, playoff game	0	0	0	0	2	0	9:42
Apr 22	@ WPG, playoff game	3	0	0	0	0	2	15:11
Apr 20	vs WPG, playoff game	1	0	2	2	0	0	11:15
Apr 18	vs WPG, playoff game	1	0	0	1	0	0	11:00
Apr 13	@ SEA	0	0	0	0	1	0	10:50
Apr 11	vs SEA	1	0	0	1	1	2	14:48
Apr 8	@ DAL	2	0	0	0	1	0	15:16
Apr 6	vs LAK	4	1	1	0	1	0	11:31
Apr 4	@ NSH	0	0	1	0	2	0	11:37
Apr 3	@ MIN	4	0	0	0	0	0	14:04

PO = playoff game.