Armchair Hockey Scout

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2024-25 edition Ask a direct question about this edition of the book — who, how many, how common, which group more — and it is answered with a table computed on this page from the edition’s index: the season line, height and age, the on-ice percentiles, the grades and the traits read out of every report. Ask for a view on named players — what a comparison comes down to, what makes a man — and you get the book’s reading of their own pages, and only those. The model turns your question into a query and phrases the result, or reads the pages it is handed; it never originates a figure, and an answer carrying a figure that is on neither the table nor the pages is withheld. It does not forecast, and it says so when a question is outside what the book holds.

Tables are computed on this page from the 2024-25 edition’s index; readings rest on the players’ own pages; the model never counts. Twenty questions an hour.
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Players

727 reports across 32 clubs, listed by surname. Back to the first page

Evidence

Page 13 of 13 · Zegras to Zucker

46

Trevor Zegras

Evidence behind this report: Light. Thinner than most: part of the record is missing, only 424 five-on-five minutes. The page is honest about what it has, but it is a smaller sample than the book's norm.

C · Anaheim Ducks

Sixty-five points at twenty-one, then thirty-one games.
51

Olen Zellweger

Evidence behind this report: Light. Thinner than most: part of the record is missing, only 434 five-on-five minutes. The page is honest about what it has, but it is a smaller sample than the book's norm.

D · Anaheim Ducks

Five foot ten, and nineteen minutes a night in his first twenty-six NHL games.
20

Fabian Zetterlund

Evidence behind this report: Light. Thinner than most: part of the record is missing. The page is honest about what it has, but it is a smaller sample than the book's norm.

LW · San Jose Sharks

Twenty-four goals and not one of them a game-winner, in 82 games.
93

Mika Zibanejad

Evidence behind this report: Light. Thinner than most: part of the record is missing. The page is honest about what it has, but it is a smaller sample than the book's norm.

C · New York Rangers

One hundred and thirteen career power-play goals in 848 games, and a shot median of thirty-four feet.
2

Artem Zub

Evidence behind this report: Light. Thinner than most: part of the record is missing. The page is honest about what it has, but it is a smaller sample than the book's norm.

D · Ottawa Senators

Undrafted out of Khabarovsk, and twenty-one minutes a night of doing exactly one job.
36

Mats Zuccarello

Evidence behind this report: Light. Thinner than most: part of the record is missing. The page is honest about what it has, but it is a smaller sample than the book's norm.

C · Minnesota Wild

Undrafted out of Oslo, 438 career assists, and 51 of them at 36.
17

Jason Zucker

Evidence behind this report: Light. Thinner than most: part of the record is missing. The page is honest about what it has, but it is a smaller sample than the book's norm.

LW · Buffalo Sabres

Six hundred and ninety-seven games, three clubs in one season, and eighty-one penalty minutes at thirty-two.