Adam Boqvist
New York Islanders Defense
The 8th overall pick in 2018, on his third organisation at 25, with 14 points in 35 games.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 | CHI | 41 | 4 | 9 | 13 | -3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 50 | 8.0 | 16:13 |
| 2020-21 | CHI | 35 | 2 | 14 | 16 | -7 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 39 | 5.1 | 16:59 |
| 2021-22 | CBJ | 52 | 11 | 11 | 22 | -11 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 64 | 17.2 | 17:03 |
| 2022-23 | CBJ | 46 | 5 | 19 | 24 | -12 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 68 | 7.3 | 18:38 |
| 2023-24 | CBJ | 35 | 1 | 9 | 10 | -8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 45 | 2.2 | 18:17 |
| 2024-25 | FLA/NYI | 35 | 4 | 10 | 14 | -9 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 10.0 | 14:04 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 244 | 27 | 72 | 99 | -50 | 50 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 306 | 8.8 | 16:57 |
This Season So Far
The 2025-26 season has not started. The empty row above is his, and both it and this paragraph fill in on their own from the morning after he first plays: what he has done, what it is worth against his own last season, and the run he is on when the two disagree.
Last Season
35 games, 4 goals and 10 assists for 14 points at 14:04 a night, on 40 shots at 10 per cent. 10 penalty minutes. Minus-9.
A 50 per cent chance share with on-ice goals of 17-19 against an expected 17.25-17.42 — his line scored what the chances predicted and conceded eight more than expected across 418 minutes. Fourteen points in 35 games is a 33-point rate, which is real offence from a third pairing.
The Finesse Game
62 per cent of his shots came from beyond 40 feet at a median of 49 and 10 per cent on 40 attempts is a good return from the point.
The skating and the puck-moving are why he was drafted 8th overall and they are still here — he escapes a forecheck cleanly, walks the line, and finds a shooting lane. The decision-making under pressure is where it has always come apart, and a defenceman who attempts the difficult play at the wrong moment gets scored on.
The Physical Game
6-0 and 195 and he does not defend by contact. He is moved off the crease and he loses the corner, and 10 penalty minutes in 35 games reflects how rarely he is in a physical exchange at all.
That is the reason a top-four job has never been available anywhere he has been.
The Intangibles
The 8th pick in 2018, traded twice, and on his third organisation before 25.
He is a genuinely skilled offensive defenceman who cannot be trusted in his own zone against a good line, and that is the most common way for a high pick on the blue line to fail — not for lack of ability, but because the half that cannot be taught is the half that is missing.
What kind of player
The searchable half of the report. The first group is computed from the season's own data; the rest are read out of the prose above, and each one carries the sentence that produced it. A subject the report never raised is simply absent.
- measuredcomputed here from the season's own data
- a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed
- he lacks itraised, and he does not have it
Each computed tag also says how well its measure holds up from one season to the next, because a tag describes a season that has finished and a reader will assume it predicts the one coming. Some do and some do not, and the gap is wide: five-on-five workload repeats well, scoring late does not repeat at all.
- sheltered· is started in the attacking end
60% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 92nd percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 47% keep it
“The skating and the puck-moving are why he was drafted 8th overall and they are still here — he escapes a forecheck cleanly, walks the line, and finds a shooting lane.”
“6-0 and 195 and he does not defend by contact.”
“He is moved off the crease and he loses the corner, and 10 penalty minutes in 35 games reflects how rarely he is in a physical exchange at all.”
“he loses the corner”
“He is a genuinely skilled offensive defenceman who cannot be trusted in his own zone against a good line”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 418 minutes
- Expected goals
- 49.8%
- 51st pct
- Shot attempts
- 49.9%
- 51st pct
share of the chances while he was out there
share of the attempts while he was out there
Goals while he was on the ice: 17 for, 19 against. Expected: 17.3 and 17.4.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 49 points above where the report does. It was written for a back edition, with the seasons that followed already known. Neither the agreement nor the gap says anything about the eye, and this report is excluded from the club-level comparison for the same reason. Why the numbers land there sets out the club he did it on, the minutes he played and the men he played them with.
Both bars are percentiles among the 637 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 59 on their own scale — against every other report's mean. The numbers bar ranks his share of expected goals. A gap is a disagreement about where he belongs, not two scales talking past each other.
Tracked
NHL Edge, 2024-25 · 35 games
- Top speed
- 20.8 mph
- 20th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.34 a game
- Distance
- 2.10 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 90.6 mph
- 48th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.6
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 89.7
A top speed is a season's best, and a man who takes more shifts gets more tries at one; the percentile is the feed's own, against every skater, and says less between a top-pair defenceman and a fourth-line wing than it does between two men in the same job. The counts are shown per game for the same reason.
Usual linemates
2024-25 · 222 minutes at five-on-five
- Ryan Pulock29%
- Adam Pelech22%
Share of his five-on-five ice time spent alongside each player, measured from shift charts. Special teams are excluded: a power-play unit is not a line.
Why the numbers land there
Five-on-five, 2024-25
- The club
- NYI took 49.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 49.8% — 0.1 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- 418 minutes at five-on-five — 12th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nate Schmidt | 53.2% | 48.4% | 58.1% |
| Jesper Boqvist | 54.8% | 48.5% | 48.9% |
| Carter Verhaeghe | 42.4% | 51.3% | 55.1% |
53.2% together, 48.4% for him apart and 58.1% for Schmidt apart. He was the one being carried: the share went with Schmidt and did not follow him.
Expected-goal share while both were on the ice, and for each man in the minutes he played without the other. Apart is the pair subtracted from his own totals. It does not settle who was carrying whom — apart from each other, both were still playing with somebody — but it does say whether the share travelled when the pairing broke up.
Where he shoots from
goal on goal missed
58 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 4 of them goals. His median goal came from 32 feet. 10% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 62% from beyond forty.