The material presents multiple analytics views of Brandon Duhaime’s on-ice impact. One visualization shows team offense and defense zones with color-coded shooting pressure, where red or orange indicates more shots from locations and blue or purple indicates fewer. It also compares his finishing, teammate setup, and penalty drawing to league average using distributions and a Synthetic Goals value as an overall impact measure. A player card compares his performance to league averages using GAR and xGAR, with percentile ranks for overall, offense, and defense. Another visualization uses NHL Edge movement metrics such as shot speed, skating speed, skating distance, shot location mapping, and zone time per zone. A separate generative art element uses p5.js to animate glitchy visuals seeded by his name.
"This image by Micah Blake McCurdy of hockeyviz.com shows how the player has impacted play when on the ice. At the top of the image is the team's offense (even strength at left, power play at right) and at bottom is the team's defense (with penalty kill at bottom right). In each case, red/orange blobs mean teams shoot for more from that location on the ice, and blue/purple means less. In general, a good player should have red/orange blobs near the opponent's net at top, and blue/purple blobs near their own team's net at bottom."
"The distributions in middle show how the player compares to league average at individual finishing, setting up teammates to score, and taking and drawing penalties. The number at center is Synthetic Goals: a catch-all number for the player's impact."
"This card from Josh and Luke of Evolving Hockey compares the player to league averages based on their impact on on-ice statistics. GAR means “goals above replacement,” where “replacement” means an average player called up from the AHL. xGAR is the same figure but assuming league-average goaltending. The numbers at top are the player's percentile ranks overall and then for offense and defense alone."
"The NHL's advanced statistics program, Edge, tracks player and puck movement. The player's shot speed, skating speed, and skating distance are at top along with percentile rank. At bottom left is a shot location map, and at bottom right is zone time per zone."
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