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2026-27 edition Ask a direct question about this edition of the book — who, how many, how common, which group more — and it is answered with a table computed on this page from the edition’s index: the season line, height and age, the on-ice percentiles, the grades and the traits read out of every report. Ask for a view on named players — what a comparison comes down to, what makes a man — and you get the book’s reading of their own pages, and only those. The model turns your question into a query and phrases the result, or reads the pages it is handed; it never originates a figure, and an answer carrying a figure that is on neither the table nor the pages is withheld. It does not forecast, and it says so when a question is outside what the book holds.

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Akil Thomas

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Akil Thomas

Vancouver Canucks Center

25 games, 3 points, and no 5-on-5 record.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2023-24LAK731402001933.38:44
2024-25LAK25123-47000205.09:55
2026-27 so far—————————————
Career—32437-490012913.89:39

No games in 2025-26. The season above is the last one he played, and everything on this page should be read with that gap in it.

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

1 goal and 2 assists in 25 games — 3 points, minus-4, at 9:55 a night with 7 penalty minutes.

7 points in 32 career games.

The Finesse Game

20 shots on goal in 25 games, one of them a goal. There is very little to read here.

2 assists in 25 games is thin, and the junior scoring record — he was a prolific playmaker in the Ontario league — has not translated in the 8 years since.

The Physical Game

6 foot even, 195, and average. 7 penalty minutes in 25 games.

He is a willing forechecker without the weight to finish it, and the skating is fair rather than quick.

The Intangibles

He does not appear in the 5-on-5 on-ice files, so this page carries no chance-share figures. The box score is all there is.

That matters less than usual here: 25 games at under 10 minutes a night on the club with the second-worst chance share in the league would not have told you much either way.

He is 26, a 51st overall pick, and scored the goal that won Canada a world junior championship, which is the line that will follow him whatever happens next. This is a thirteenth-forward page.