Adam Pelech

642 games, 30 goals, and the 82nd percentile in possession.

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

2015-16	NYI	9	0	2	2	-1	0	0	0	0	8	0.0	17:35
2016-17	NYI	44	3	7	10	-5	6	0	0	0	40	7.5	16:50
2017-18	NYI	78	3	16	19	+7	28	0	0	1	106	2.8	19:16
2018-19	NYI	78	5	16	21	+22	24	0	0	0	110	4.5	18:38
2019-20	NYI	38	1	8	9	+4	20	0	0	0	49	2.0	21:08
2020-21	NYI	56	4	10	14	+15	18	0	1	0	82	4.9	21:03
2021-22	NYI	78	3	25	28	+20	42	0	0	0	104	2.9	21:17
2022-23	NYI	61	6	15	21	+15	36	0	0	0	97	6.2	21:39
2023-24	NYI	58	1	15	16	-2	27	0	0	1	71	1.4	20:17
2024-25	NYI	60	0	21	21	+4	32	0	0	0	109	0.0	21:07
2025-26	NYI	82	4	12	16	+4	50	0	1	2	122	3.3	20:53
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	642	30	147	177	+83	283	0	2	4	898	3.3	20:12

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

4 goals and 12 assists in all 82 games — 16 points, plus-4, at 20:53 a night with 1,453 5-on-5 minutes.

The Finesse Game

There is essentially none. 208 unblocked attempts from a median of 50 feet, 4 per cent inside 20, 4 goals. 30 goals in 642 career games.

12 assists in a full season of top-pair minutes. He moves it to the first available man and defends.

The Physical Game

6-3, 212, and a genuinely excellent defensive defenceman — he closes gaps early, blocks shots, and is hard to beat one-on-one. 50 penalty minutes.

The skating is good enough that he is rarely obliged to foul, which for a man playing these minutes is the distinguishing feature.

The Intangibles

53.3 per cent of the shot attempts, 82nd percentile — the best mark on the club — and 51.5 per cent of the expected goals, 56th, across 1,400 minutes of the hardest assignment available.

The goals went 48-51 against him while his chances came out 62.6 to 59.1 in his favour, which on a club that under-finished by 22 is not his doing.

He is 32, a third-round pick, in his eleventh season with 1 organisation, and has never been an All-Star and never will be. He is the best defensive defenceman on a team that finished 28th in expected goals against, which tells you what the rest of it looks like.

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.

durable· was available
82 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
drives-play· the shot clock turns his way while he is out there
51.5% of the expected goals at five-on-five with him on, 46.7% for his club in the minutes he sat: +4.8, 92nd 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 · 1,453 minutes

Expected goals: 51.5%; 68th pct
Shot attempts: 53.3%; 83rd pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 48 for, 51 against. Expected: 62.8 and 59.1.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

38th

Numbers

68th

The numbers rank him 30 points above where the report does. It was written with these numbers on screen and departs from them anyway, which makes the gap a judgment rather than an oversight. 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 656 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 70 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 · 82 games

Top speed: 22.0 mph; 63rd pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.51 a game
Distance: 2.86 miles a game
Hardest shot: 96.3 mph; 85th 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 — 0 goals, 2 assists, 23 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 1453 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: NYI took 48.4% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 51.5% — 3.1 above the club he did it on.
The role: Second pair, 1,453 minutes at five-on-five — 95th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Tony DeAngelo	49.3%	53.9%	47.1%
Mathew Barzal	56.1%	48.9%	48.7%
Emil Heineman	50.9%	51.8%	46.8%

49.3% together, 53.9% for him apart and 47.1% for DeAngelo apart. He was better away from DeAngelo, who was no worse away from him — the pairing cost him more than it cost DeAngelo.

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

208 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 4 of them goals. His median goal came from 38 feet. 4% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 74% from beyond forty.