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Team diagnostic
2025-26last seasonAs of Sun, Sep 20

Philadelphia Flyers

5-on-5 · model-estimated

Flyers: a outshot/run-and-gun team (0.0% 5v5 xG) with league-average goaltending.

How to read this

This is one team through the publication's three layers. The identity row separates process — the chances a club creates and allows (, ) — from luck, which is what measures. Process predicts the future; luck predicts a correction.

Everything below follows that split: regression flags mark places where results have outrun (or trailed) the underlying play, talent tiers and the player table rank the roster by a model-estimated , and roster needs compare each position group against league average. The proxies rank things usefully but share credit with linemates — read orderings as solid and exact magnitudes as approximate.

PROCESS
chance creation and possession — xG%, Corsi. The repeatable part.
RESULT
goals, wins, special-teams conversion. What the standings see.
LUCK
PDO, finishing vs expected, GSAx — the part that mean-reverts.
GOLD/RED
regression flags: gold = watch it, red = act on it
Fine print · verbatim from the model
  • WAR / Impact are model-estimated proxies, not cap-validated
  • Roster-need gaps are ordinal — ranked correctly, magnitudes relative
Identity · outshot/run-and-gun
0.0%
xGoals %
This team gets buried territorially.
47.6%
Corsi %
0.00
xGF / 60
1.008
PDO
Luck is about neutral; the record is earned.
Strengths
  • Elite top-end talent: Owen Tippett.
Weaknesses
  • Out-chanced at 5v5 (0.0% xG share).
  • Leaky penalty kill (78% kill rate).
Talent tiers · model impact
Elite01
  • Owen Tippett
Top06
  • Trevor Zegras
  • Matvei Michkov
  • Travis Sanheim
  • Noah Cates
  • Tyson Foerster
  • Emil Andrae
Middle10
  • Travis Konecny
  • Christian Dvorak
  • Sean Couturier
  • Jamie Drysdale
  • Denver Barkey
  • Cam York
  • Carl Grundstrom
  • Rasmus Ristolainen
  • Nick Seeler
  • Noah Juulsen
Depth05
  • Nikita Grebenkin
  • Rodrigo Abols
  • David Jiricek
  • Garnet Hathaway
  • Luke Glendening
Rate-first

Special teams

Power play
0.00 xGF/60 · 15.7% SH%
4.72GF/60
Penalty kill
0.8 Kill%
8.14GA/60
Source · MoneyPuck 5-on-5 + ST splits
Team GSAx +0.0

Goaltending

Above expected
GoaltenderGP
Dan Vladar5290.570+0.0
Samuel Ersson3386.960+0.0
Source · GSAx = xGoals − goals, computed in-app
Roster needs · ranked
01
Bottom-6 forward depthhigh
team 41.5 vs league 81.9
-40
02
Depth defensehigh
team 55.0 vs league 87.3
-32
03
Top-6 forwardhigh
team 64.8 vs league 86.1
-21
04
Top-pair defensemanhigh
team 71.5 vs league 91.5
-20

Gaps are ordinal — needs are ranked correctly; treat the magnitude as relative, not absolute.

Top players · adjusted impact
PlayerGPTOI/GP
Trevor ZegrasC8115.0+65.50+3.1
Owen TippettR8113.4+81.50+2.9
Travis KonecnyR7714.5+47.40+2.3
Matvei MichkovR8112.2+64.70+2.3
Travis SanheimD8119.1+73.00+2.0
Noah CatesL8212.1+61.70+2.0
Christian DvorakC8014.1+48.60+1.6
Sean CouturierC7813.0+54.60+1.5
Jamie DrysdaleD7818.4+59.80+1.3
Tyson FoersterR2913.5+61.00+0.9
Schedule load · logistics

How hard is this team’s season, logistically? This grades the schedule itself — travel, rest, and clustering — separate from how good the team is.

Logistics, not talent

Schedule load

DEPTH
Load index
23/ 100 · pctile vs league

The 25th-heaviest schedule in the league84 games, 1.3 days average rest.

Total travel
34,394
road miles flown
12
Back-to-backs
2 games, 0 days off
13
3-in-4s
3 games / 4 nights
9
4-in-6s
4 games / 6 nights
5
Longest road trip
4,737 mi
Rest-days distribution
0d12
1d45
2d22
3+d4

Nights of rest before each game · 0 days = red, 3+ = green

Rest advantage

22 games with more rest than the opponent · 19 with fewer · 41 even.

Hardest stretches
  • 6 games in 11 days with 5,066 travel miles

    Nov 5Nov 15

  • 6 games in 10 days with 3,774 travel miles

    Jan 3Jan 12

  • 6 games in 12 days with 4,473 travel miles

    Mar 5Mar 16

Source · NHL schedule · arena coordinates · rest & travel model
By the Model5-on-5 aggregates · MoneyPuck* WAR / Impact are model-estimated proxies, not cap-validated