Alex DeBrincat

5-8, 41 goals, and nobody has stopped him yet.

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

2017-18	CHI	82	28	24	52	+6	6	6	0	1	181	15.5	14:48
2018-19	CHI	82	41	35	76	0	15	13	0	3	220	18.6	17:42
2019-20	CHI	70	18	27	45	-10	15	10	0	4	207	8.7	17:30
2020-21	CHI	52	32	24	56	+3	12	9	1	7	155	20.6	20:32
2021-22	CHI	82	41	37	78	-13	19	14	0	6	270	15.2	20:51
2022-23	OTT	82	27	39	66	-31	45	11	0	6	263	10.3	19:00
2023-24	DET	82	27	40	67	+1	34	11	0	1	237	11.4	17:54
2024-25	DET	82	39	31	70	-13	29	13	0	4	244	16.0	17:52
2025-26	DET	82	41	44	85	+8	19	15	0	6	287	14.3	18:30
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	696	294	301	595	-49	194	102	1	38	2064	14.2	18:13

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

41 goals and 44 assists in all 82 games — 85 points, plus-8, at 18:30 a night with 15 power-play goals. 287 shots on goal.

The Finesse Game

The release is the whole trade and it is one of the three or four quickest in the league. He does not need space or time; he needs a lane for about a fifth of a second, and he finds one most nights.

437 unblocked attempts, 39 goals, median distance 29 feet with 31 per cent from inside 20. That is further out than most 40-goal scorers work from, and it does not matter, because the shot beats goaltenders clean rather than through traffic.

44 assists says the passing is genuinely good and slightly hidden by the goal total.

The Physical Game

5-8 and 180 pounds, which makes him one of the two or three smallest forwards in the league, and he has scored 294 goals in 696 games anyway. 19 penalty minutes.

He does not go to the net front, he does not win a wall battle, and he has built an entire career on being somewhere the puck is about to be rather than somewhere a defenceman can reach.

The Intangibles

52.1 per cent of the expected goals, 71st percentile — a good number on a club that was 48.2 per cent as a team.

9 points in his last 10, 6 of them goals. He is 28 and has now scored 40 in a season 3 times for 3 different clubs, which settles the argument about whether the first one was the roster.

Detroit finished 4th in the league on the power play. 15 of these goals came there, and he is the reason it works.

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.

clutch· scored his goals when the game was still live
10 of his 41 goals late or in overtime, 96th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure barely repeats (0.06) · 10% keep it
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
52.1% of the expected goals at five-on-five with him on, 46.5% for his club in the minutes he sat: +5.6, 93rd percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats moderately (0.39) · 29% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1,157 minutes

Expected goals: 52.1%; 71st pct
Shot attempts: 51.2%; 68th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 59 for, 46 against. Expected: 54.0 and 49.7.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

78th

Numbers

71st

The two rank him within 7 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 · 82 games

Top speed: 22.6 mph; 70th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 1.40 a game
Distance: 3.07 miles a game
Hardest shot: 88.1 mph; 70th 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 — 6 goals, 3 assists, 35 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 1157 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: DET took 48.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 52.1% — 3.9 above the club he did it on.
The role: Second line, 1,157 minutes at five-on-five — 78th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Patrick Kane	50.5%	54.8%	53.1%
Andrew Copp	50.5%	53.9%	49.2%
Moritz Seider	58.3%	47.5%	54.4%

50.5% together, 54.8% for him apart and 53.1% for Kane apart. He was better away from Kane, who was no worse away from him — the pairing cost him more than it cost Kane.

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

437 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 39 of them goals. His median goal came from 19 feet. 32% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 21% from beyond forty.