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84

Adam Edstrom

Nashville Predators Center

6-7, and 58 per cent of his shots from inside 20 feet.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2023-24NYR11202+22000728.68:25
2024-25NYR51549-5270024012.59:16
2025-26NYR35325+12001319.79:28
2026-27 so far—————————————
Career—9710616-2310037812.89:15

This Season So Far

The 2026-27 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

3 goals and 2 assists in 35 games — 5 points, plus-1, at 9:28 a night with 2 penalty minutes. His 5-on-5 work was done in New York.

The Finesse Game

Minimal in volume and excellent in placement. 43 unblocked attempts, of which 58 per cent came from inside 20 feet with a median of 17 — among the shortest average distances of any forward in this edition.

3 goals came out of it. 16 points in 97 career games.

He is a net-front player and nothing else, which at his size is a reasonable division of labour.

The Physical Game

6-7 and 232 pounds, one of the 2 tallest men in this edition alongside Crevier and Klapka. He screens, he tips, and he is genuinely immovable in front of the net.

2 penalty minutes in 35 games is a startling number for a player built like this and is the criticism: he occupies space rather than imposing on it.

The Intangibles

44.3 per cent of the expected goals, 12th percentile, in 326 minutes on a good club.

He is 25, a sixth-round pick, and joins a Nashville roster that already has Schaefer at 6-5 and Hague at 6-6. That is a lot of size on a team whose problem was conceding chances rather than losing fights.

The shot chart says there is a useful fourth-line goal scorer here if anyone gets him the puck.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 326 minutes

Expected goals
44.3%
12th pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
46.8%
25th pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 11 for, 11 against. Expected: 11.0 and 13.8.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted
Report
8th
Numbers
12th

The two rank him within 4 points of one another. It was written with these numbers on screen, so the agreement is not corroboration — the arithmetic is on both sides of it.

Both bars are percentiles among the 656 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 63 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, 2025-26 · 35 games

Top speed
23.8 mph
98th pct

fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.2

Bursts over 20 mph
1.97 a game

how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes

Distance
1.53 miles a game

skated, all strengths

Hardest shot
82.7 mph
34th pct

one shot; the league's average best is 83.6

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.

Recent form

Last 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first

1

points in his last 10 games — 1 goals, 0 assists, 14 shots

Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.

Usual linemates

2025-26 with NYR · 326 minutes at five-on-five

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, 2025-26

The club
NYR took 48.0% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 44.3% — 3.7 below the club he did it on.
The role
Fourth line, 326 minutes at five-on-five — 7th percentile in ice time.

With and without

TeammateTogetherHim apartMate apart
Sam Carrick45.0%43.5%47.5%
Braden Schneider39.7%46.9%44.4%
Vladislav Gavrikov41.0%46.2%50.2%

45.0% together, 43.5% for him apart and 47.5% for Carrick apart. Splitting them up moved neither man. Whatever is driving the share, it is not this pairing.

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

43 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 3 of them goals. His median goal came from 12 feet. 60% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 14% from beyond forty.