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Adam Fox

53 points in 55 games, and the best on-ice rate on the club by a distance.

Season	Team	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	PP	SH	GW	S	S%	TOI

2019-20	NYR	70	8	34	42	+22	32	1	0	4	125	6.4	18:54
2020-21	NYR	55	5	42	47	+19	14	2	1	1	102	4.9	24:42
2021-22	NYR	78	11	63	74	+18	26	0	1	2	158	7.0	23:54
2022-23	NYR	82	12	60	72	+28	34	1	0	5	159	7.5	24:23
2023-24	NYR	72	17	56	73	+21	36	6	1	5	137	12.4	23:27
2024-25	NYR	74	10	51	61	+9	32	1	1	2	135	7.4	23:15
2025-26	NYR	55	9	44	53	+5	20	5	0	1	91	9.9	23:38
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	486	72	350	422	+122	194	16	4	20	907	7.9	23:09

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

9 goals and 44 assists in 55 games — 53 points, plus-5, at 23:38 a night. 27 games missed.

The Finesse Game

The passing is the best of any defenceman in this book. 44 assists in 55 games is a full-season pace of 65, and they are not power-play gifts — he makes the seam pass out of his own zone at speed, and he does it against forechecks designed to stop exactly that.

The shot is a means rather than an end: 155 unblocked attempts from a median of 51 feet, 9 goals. He gets it through and looks for a tip.

The Physical Game

5-11 and 185 pounds, and it is the whole of the risk. 20 penalty minutes in 55 games of top-pair work. He cannot clear a crease and gets moved out of the front of his own net by any winger who wants the space.

27 games missed, and this is the second season in 3 that has happened.

The Intangibles

56 per cent of the expected goals, 92nd percentile, and 55.7 per cent of the shot attempts, 92nd — on a club that was 48 per cent as a team and finished 29th in even-strength expected goals for.

The gap between Fox and the next-best Ranger is enormous. The goals went 45-34 in his favour; nobody else here was close.

14 points in his last 10. He is 28, a Norris winner, a 66th overall pick, and the reason this club’s defensive numbers look respectable at all.

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

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-shot· beats a goaltender from range
5 of 109 attempts from 40 feet or beyond, 4.6%, 91st percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.21) · 16% keep it
drives-play· the shot clock turns his way while he is out there
56.0% of the expected goals at five-on-five with him on, 45.2% for his club in the minutes he sat: +10.8, 98th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats moderately (0.39) · 29% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1,030 minutes

Expected goals: 56%; 92nd pct
Shot attempts: 55.7%; 92nd pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 45 for, 34 against. Expected: 46.5 and 36.5.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

78th

Numbers

92nd

The two rank him within 14 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 — 77 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 · 55 games

Top speed: 21.1 mph; 28th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.27 a game
Distance: 3.18 miles a game
Hardest shot: 85.0 mph; 24th pct

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

points in his last 10 games — 4 goals, 10 assists, 18 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 1030 minutes at five-on-five

Vladislav Gavrikov85%

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 56.0% — 8.0 above the club he did it on.
The role: First pair, 1,030 minutes at five-on-five — 64th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Vladislav Gavrikov	55.5%	58.7%	41.6%
Mika Zibanejad	57.9%	54.9%	46.6%
Alexis Lafrenière	60.4%	53.8%	50.5%

55.5% together, 58.7% for him apart and 41.6% for Gavrikov apart. He was carrying it: the share stayed with him and left Gavrikov behind.

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

155 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 9 of them goals. His median goal came from 43 feet. 9% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 70% from beyond forty.