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Adam Fox
New York Rangers Defense
51 assists and the 82nd percentile in chance share, and his own ice outscored the opposition 60-45.
| 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 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 431 | 63 | 306 | 369 | +117 | 174 | 11 | 4 | 19 | 816 | 7.7 | 23:06 |
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
10 goals and 51 assists in 74 games — 61 points, plus-9, at 23:15 a night, the largest assignment on the club.
54.1 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 82nd percentile, across 1,215 minutes. And the club was outscored 60-45 with him on the ice against an expectation of 57.65-48.85. He had the better of the chances by seven goals and the worse of the results by ten.
The Finesse Game
The passing is the whole game and it is among the two or three best at the position in the league. He reads a breakout before it forms, and the first pass out of his own end is quick and accurate under pressure — 51 assists in 74 games is a rate almost nobody on a blue line reaches.
135 attempts at a median of 40 feet with half of them from beyond 40 is a point shot meant to be deflected rather than a weapon. 10 goals is the honest ceiling and it does not matter, because the value was never in the shot.
The Physical Game
5-11 and 185 pounds, and among the smallest men in the league playing twenty-three minutes a night. He defends by anticipation and stick position, gets to the spot before the puck does, and is very rarely beaten wide.
He does not clear his crease and never has. 32 penalty minutes in 74 games says he is almost never reaching, which is the other half of the same sentence: a man who arrives first does not need to foul.
The Intangibles
A third-round pick who was traded twice before he had played a game, refused to sign in Carolina, and arrived here in 2019 on his own terms. He won the Norris Trophy in his second season.
Six seasons, 431 games, 369 points, and a body of work that no longer needs arguing for. The one thing the record will not give him is a heavy partner, and the club spent the summer buying one.
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.
- slot-man· shoots from where goals are scored
22.2% of his attempts in the slot, 96th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.69) · 44% keep it
- drives-play· the shot clock turns his way while he is out there
54.1% of the expected goals at five-on-five with him on, 44.6% for his club in the minutes he sat: +9.5, 100th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats moderately (0.39) · 29% keep it
- sheltered· is started in the attacking end
63% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 98th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 47% keep it
“51 assists in 74 games is a rate almost nobody on a blue line reaches.”
“He reads a breakout before it forms, and the first pass out of his own end is quick and accurate under pressure”
“He does not clear his crease and never has.”
“32 penalty minutes in 74 games says he is almost never reaching, which is the other half of the same sentence: a man who arrives first does not need to foul.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,215 minutes
- Expected goals
- 54.1%
- 86th pct
- Shot attempts
- 55.5%
- 93rd 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: 60 for, 45 against. Expected: 57.6 and 48.9.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 6 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 — 78 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 · 74 games
- Top speed
- 21.3 mph
- 35th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.11 a game
- Distance
- 3.19 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 86.4 mph
- 25th 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 · 1215 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, 2024-25
- The club
- NYR took 47.7% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 54.1% — 6.4 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- First pair, 1,215 minutes at five-on-five — 86th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ryan Lindgren | 48.7% | 59.5% | 43.9% |
| Vincent Trocheck | 52.2% | 55.3% | 45.9% |
| Artemi Panarin | 56.2% | 52.8% | 47.3% |
48.7% together, 59.5% for him apart and 43.9% for Lindgren apart. He was carrying it: the share stayed with him and left Lindgren 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
203 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 10 of them goals. His median goal came from 29 feet. 16% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 50% from beyond forty.