Trevor van Riemsdyk is so low-key, it’s easy to overlook that he was once again Washington’s best defender.
By the Numbers
| Summary | |
|---|---|
| 0 | goals |
| 14 | assists |
| 70 | games played |
| 18.7 | average ice time |
| On-ice percentages | |
| 46.7 | 5-on-5 shot-attempt percentage |
| 50.5 | 5-on-5 expected goal percentage |
| 47.9 | 5-on-5 actual goal percentage |
Isolated Impact by HockeyViz
About this visualization: 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 bobs 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.
Player Card by All Three Zones
About this player card: This image from Corey Sznajder of All Three Zones shows how the player compares to league averages in different microstats in the defensive, neutral, and offensive zones. Blue bars mean the player has a higher rate in that statistic compared to league average, and orange means a lower rate. The numbers are Z-scores, also known as standard deviations, indicating how far the number is from league average, where more than two standard deviations means the player is on the extreme edge of the league.
Player Card by Evolving Hockey
About this player card: 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.
Player Overview by NHL Edge
About this visualization: The NHL’s advanced statistics program, Edge, tracks player and puck movement. At left are the player’s numbers in various statistics along with the average number for that same stat among players of the same position and the player’s percentile rank in it. At right is a radar chart for various statistics, where the bigger the shape the better the player performs in those measures.
Fan Happiness Survey
About this visualization: At three times during the season, RMNB shared an open survey with fans, asking the following question for each player: “On a scale from 1 to 5, how HAPPY are you to have this player on the team?” The numbers above show the average score for the player in each survey period.
Peter’s Take
Zero goals. Pathetic. Trevor van Riemsdyk can’t score, and that – well, that doesn’t bother me one bit. What he can do and has done ever since coming to DC on a budget deal and replacement role is supply top-shelf quality depth defense, which they direly need.
Opponent offense (expected-goal rate) dropped by 12 percent when TVR was on the ice. No full-time Caps defender saw a lower rate of high-danger chances against his net. No blueliner was better at getting the puck out of the defensive zone and back into neutral.
Under Spencer Carbery, van Riemsdyk’s ice time actually dropped from Laviolette’s final season. I could make the case there is no Caps player whose role should increase next season more than TVR. The top-pairing defense needs a lighter load, and this guy has proven year after year that he can handle it.
Player Summary by ChatGPT
Brother of Trevor van Riemsdyk, James van Riemsdyk is a professional ice hockey player for the Philadelphia Flyers (N.H.L). Be that as it may, van Dreamsdyk (as he’s called by some) now sports for the Boston squadron, where he has accumulated 13:30 TOI and 20 PIM all during a +/- of 7.
Brother of Trevor van Riemsdyk, van Riemsdyk is the older brother of the van Riemsdyk clan. Amber is surely the colour of his energy, as he has tallied 311 goals in his storied career, which recently broke the 1,000-game threshold, more than four hundred games ahead of his brother, James van Riemsdyk.
TVR on RMNB
- van Riemsdyk got hurt in November and missed a couple weeks. He went on injured reserve.
- He was blocking a ton of shots in the early going, a sign of trouble.
- On the alarmingly brief moment when the Caps D corps wasn’t injured: “That’ll be exciting, just to have everyone healthy and at 100 percent. You never want to see guys stuck in the training room rehabbing. They’re itching to play and obviously when you’re sitting out too, you remember what that feeling is like.”
- Something happened in December that would not happen later in the season: being the healthy scratch so Ethan Bear could play.
- Carbery on scratching TVR: “It’s not ideal for TVR to go into a game and then come back out. Thought he struggled last night and it’s hard to do that. You go back in and now all of a sudden you’re trying to get into a rhythm and you sat. There are significant challenges with that and I understand that. But, at the same time, it’s competition. It’s difficult on those guys but they gotta seize their opportunity.”
- By February he was effectively top-pairing defense.
In which Trevor van Riemsdyk seemingly takes on every player on the New York Rangers
- Injured by Matt Rempe.
- Rempe on that hit: “I’m getting in there, and my job’s to finish hits there and be hard on the forecheck. I thought it was a clean hit. It was a quick play. I just went through the body. Obviously, you never want anyone to get hurt, and that’s terrible that he’s hurt and I’m sorry to hear about that. But I think it was a clean hit. I was just trying to play hard, move my feet, and be physical.”
Your Turn
Why doesn’t TVR play more and Carlson play just a bit less?
