Justin Falk#41

D with Buffalo, 2016–17 to 2017–18

No. 41Shoots LHeight 6'5"Weight 223 lbsBorn October 11, 1988Hometown Snowflake, MB, CAN
On-Ice Impact, 2017–18 5v5
43.5%
xGF% ON ICE
42.4%
CF% ON ICE

On-ice PDO 0.965 (5v5 on-ice shooting plus save percentage). PDO over one season is noisy, it regresses hard toward 1.000, so read it as recent puck luck rather than a skill.

Recent Form
Last 10
Last 20
Points
0 to 2
0Cold
1 
Individual xG
0.01 to 0.04
0.04Hot
0.03 
On-Ice xGF%
31.7% to 55.3%
48.1%Steady
47.1% 
Game Score
-0.33 to 0.06
-0.11 
-0.11 

Each line is the metric's rolling 10-game value across the last 20 games, so it ends on the Last 10 figure. The dashed line is the player's season average (50% for On-Ice xGF%), with navy shading for time spent above it and gray for below. Gold ticks mark goal games. Descriptive only, small samples swing.

Playoffs

Career With Buffalo

98 games, 2 seasons
1
G
365th all-time
9
A
279th all-time
10
PTS
306th all-time
57
PIM
219th all-time
14:49
TOI/G

All-time is the rank among the 529 skaters with a regular-season game for Buffalo since 1970–71. Ties share a rank.

Season by Season

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These stats don’t share a natural scale, so each line is normalized to its own 0-100% range for shape comparison. Hover a point for its real value.

0120162017SeasonGoals
SeasonAgeGPGAPTS+/-PIMPen +/-/60PPSHGWGSOGS%FO%TOI/GP/60ixGxG/60GAxCF%FF%GF%xG%PDO
2016–172752088-329-0.84000330.0%0.0%13:42
0.67
34th pct
1.6
0.14
33rd pct
-1.6
20th pct
50.8%
65th pct
50.8%47.5%53.6%0.992
2017–182846112-1628-0.24000362.8%0.0%16:05
0.16
3rd pct
1.0
0.08
8th pct
0.0
64th pct
42.4%
7th pct
42.9%31.1%43.5%0.965
Total981910-1957000691.4%14:490.41

pct under a P/60, xG/60, GAx and CF% figure is where that season ranks, as a percentile, among every Sabres defenseman season since 2016–17 with at least 12 games; a season under that floor isn't ranked. xG/60, GAx and CF% come from this site's own xG model and shift-chart reconstruction, not an NHL feed; P/60 is from official NHL totals. Higher is better throughout.

Actual vs Expected

One row per season: the gold dot is the expected total, the navy dot is what actually happened.

xGGoals
011222016–172016–17: 1.6 xG2016–17: 0 Goals (-1.6 vs expected)0 / 1.62017–182017–18: 1.0 xG2017–18: 1 Goals (0.0 vs expected)1 / 1.0

Shot Map

Every shot attempt across every season shown here, to scale, always attacking right. Pick one season to see that year alone, or leave it on Career for the full picture.

xG range
Shot on goal (size = xG)GoalMissed shot×Blocked shot