Putting Up Numbers· NHL

Patrick Kane’s points at home and away

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Against his share of what his opponents usually allowed forwards, Patrick Kane was 0.11 points under at home and 0.25 points under away in 2026-27, 9 games against 6. The plain averages are 0.67 and 0.50, a difference of 0.17. All 3 games without Spencer Knight in net were away.

6 games away is still too small a sample for the statistics to say much, but maybe you can find something if you squint.

points a game over expected

A +0.14 difference in points over expected at home vs away is about what you’d expect.

A +0.17 difference in points at home vs away is about what you’d expect.

The games

at homeaway
Patrick Kane’s games, 2026-27, each marked at home or away
SideDateGameResultpointsExpected
Sep 29, 2026@VGKL10.66
Oct 1, 2026@UTAL00.83
Oct 3, 2026@BUFL00.89
Oct 6, 2026vsSTLW00.78
Oct 8, 2026@NYIL10.70
Oct 10, 2026vsCARL00.62
Oct 13, 2026vsPITW10.83
Oct 15, 2026vsWPGW20.92
Oct 17, 2026vsDALL00.61
Oct 23, 2026vsMTLL10.79
Oct 25, 2026vsFLAL10.72
Oct 27, 2026vsLAKW10.93
Oct 29, 2026@DETL00.84
Oct 31, 2026@BOSL10.56
Nov 2, 2026vsCOLL00.82

Method

  • Expected is what the opponent allowed forwards in its other 2026-27 games, plus 0.00 for the home team (half the league’s home edge for forwards that season), nothing at a neutral site, scaled to his share of his team’s forwards’ points in his games, 13%.
  • Each expected number is then fit to the season’s games: a game bears out about 97% of the difference the model predicts.
  • The shuffle keeps the season’s shape: the games are cut into stretches, one a 15 games, where the dates leave the least variance, each game is read against its stretch, and the sides are shuffled only inside each stretch.