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Alec Regula
Edmonton Oilers Defense #75
A 6-4 right-shot defenseman whose career has been mostly injuries and whose last look did not go well.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-21 | CHI | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 | 12:23 |
| 2021-22 | CHI | 15 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 5.6 | 17:53 |
| 2022-23 | CHI | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.0 | 16:36 |
| 2025-26 | EDM | 29 | 0 | 3 | 3 | -16 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 0.0 | 14:28 |
| 2026-27 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 51 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -21 | 51 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 39 | 2.6 | 15:31 |
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
3 assists in 29 games, minus-16, on 14 and a half minutes a night. The minus-16 in that few games is a hard number to explain away, and it came in the largest NHL opportunity he has had.
The Finesse Game
The tools are real enough: he is a right shot, he is 6-4, and he has a genuinely heavy point shot that he gets through traffic. He put up points in junior and in the AHL, and the offensive instincts are the reason he keeps getting chances.
At NHL speed the reads have not held up. He is a step slow closing gaps, and once the play is inside his own blue line the decisions come too late. Minus-16 in 29 games is not evidence of that on its own — plus-minus rarely is — but it is the direction everything else here points.
The Physical Game
211 pounds and long, and he is willing enough along the wall. He does not consistently win the front of his net against strong forwards, and the foot speed limits how much of his size he can actually bring to bear.
The Intangibles
He was a third-round pick who has now been through 3 organizations, and the thing that has cost him most is availability — the injuries have come at exactly the ages when a defenseman is supposed to be establishing himself.
26 this season with 51 NHL games on his record. He is out of the window where a prospect gets patience, and this is likely his last look as anything other than organizational depth.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 394 minutes
- Expected goals
- 48.6%
- 43rd pct
- Shot attempts
- 47.3%
- 29th 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: 8 for, 25 against. Expected: 16.0 and 16.9.
The eye and the numbers
SightedThe two rank him within 10 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 — 69 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 · 29 games
- Top speed
- 21.6 mph
- 47th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.10 a game
- Distance
- 2.09 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 82.3 mph
- 16th 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 88.9
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.
Recent form
Last 15 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first
3
points in his last 10 games — 0 goals, 3 assists, 10 shots
Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.
Usual linemates
2025-26 · 394 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
- EDM took 51.6% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 48.6% — 3.0 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- 394 minutes at five-on-five — 12th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Darnell Nurse | 50.2% | 43.6% | 49.0% |
| Leon Draisaitl | 46.1% | 49.9% | 55.7% |
| Matt Savoie | 48.6% | 48.6% | 50.4% |
50.2% together, 43.6% for him apart and 49.0% for Nurse apart. He was worse away from Nurse, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Nurse did.
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
32 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 0 of them goals. 9% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 75% from beyond forty.