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Adam Edstrom
New York Rangers Center
6-7 and 232, and 74 per cent of his shots came from inside 20 feet.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-24 | NYR | 11 | 2 | 0 | 2 | +2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 28.6 | 8:25 |
| 2024-25 | NYR | 51 | 5 | 4 | 9 | -5 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 40 | 12.5 | 9:16 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 62 | 7 | 4 | 11 | -3 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 47 | 14.9 | 9:07 |
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
5 goals and 4 assists in 51 games — 9 points, minus-5, at 9:16 a night with 27 penalty minutes.
45.1 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 13th percentile, across 467 minutes, with the on-ice goals 15-19 against an expectation of 15.84-19.30. A fourth line that starts in its own end and gets outchanced, and got a great deal more than it earned.
The Finesse Game
74 per cent of his attempts came from inside 20 feet at a median of 13, and 2 per cent from beyond 40. That is the most extreme shot chart on the roster and it describes the entire offensive game: he stands in the blue paint and he shoots what arrives there.
5 goals on 40 shots at 12.5 per cent is a reasonable return on that. There is no handling and no passing to speak of — 11 points in 62 career games — and the release is slow enough that he needs the puck to come to him already in a scoring position.
The Physical Game
6-7 and 232, the largest forward in this chapter. He is genuinely immovable in front of a net, he clears space for other people, and a defenceman trying to move him has to commit a penalty to do it.
27 penalty minutes in 51 games at nine minutes a night is a heavy rate. The skating is the ceiling: he cannot forecheck at NHL pace, which is why a man this size plays under ten minutes.
The Intangibles
A sixth-round pick out of Sweden who did not reach the NHL until he was 23 and has 62 games at 25.
He is a specific tool — a net-front body on a fourth line and a power play — and the value of that tool goes up in a seven-game series and down over 82. The club has kept him for exactly that reason.
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.
- hard-minutes· is started in his own end, against the other club's best
25% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 2nd percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
“he stands in the blue paint and he shoots what arrives there.”
“He is genuinely immovable in front of a net, he clears space for other people, and a defenceman trying to move him has to commit a penalty to do it.”
“he cannot forecheck at NHL pace, which is why a man this size plays under ten minutes.”
“There is no handling and no passing to speak of — 11 points in 62 career games”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 467 minutes
- Expected goals
- 45.1%
- 17th pct
- Shot attempts
- 45%
- 12th 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: 15 for, 19 against. Expected: 15.8 and 19.3.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 10 points of one another. 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.
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 — 62 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 · 51 games
- Top speed
- 23.5 mph
- 96th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 2.65 a game
- Distance
- 1.53 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 80.0 mph
- 19th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.2
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 83.9
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 · 467 minutes at five-on-five
- Sam Carrick82%
- Jimmy Veseyoff the roster38%
- Matt Rempe19%
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
- NYR took 47.7% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 45.1% — 2.6 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Fourth line, 467 minutes at five-on-five — 14th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sam Carrick | 46.4% | 39.0% | 43.3% |
| Braden Schneider | 44.5% | 45.4% | 46.6% |
| Jimmy Vesey | 54.0% | 40.0% | 38.0% |
46.4% together, 39.0% for him apart and 43.3% for Carrick apart. Both were worse apart, so whatever the two of them had together was doing real work.
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, 5 of them goals. His median goal came from 15 feet. 74% of his shots came from inside twenty feet.