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Alex Iafallo

An undrafted winger 9 years into a career built on doing the correct thing every shift.

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

2017-18	LAK	75	9	16	25	+10	12	0	0	1	129	7.0	15:06
2018-19	LAK	82	15	18	33	-17	22	2	0	2	148	10.1	16:50
2019-20	LAK	70	17	26	43	+1	14	6	0	3	142	12.0	18:56
2020-21	LAK	55	13	17	30	-8	4	4	0	2	118	11.0	19:53
2021-22	LAK	79	17	20	37	+4	8	3	1	2	215	7.9	18:30
2022-23	LAK	59	14	22	36	+14	20	7	0	5	133	10.5	16:18
2023-24	WPG	82	11	16	27	+14	6	2	0	2	120	9.2	15:19
2024-25	WPG	82	15	16	31	+21	15	6	0	2	109	13.8	13:17
2025-26	WPG	79	13	16	29	+3	14	2	0	3	114	11.4	15:35
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	663	124	167	291	+42	115	32	1	22	1228	10.1	16:29

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

13 goals and 29 points in 79 games, plus-3, on 15 and a half minutes a night. That is close to his career rate and the plus-3 on this roster is a good number for a bottom-6 forward.

The Finesse Game

Ordinary tools used well. He shoots accurately from the slot, makes the simple pass, and does not turn the puck over in dangerous places. 124 goals in 663 games describes a player who has scored steadily without ever threatening to score a lot.

The useful part is positional. He is always available for a pass, always on the right side of the puck, and can be moved up the lineup for a stretch without the line falling apart.

The Physical Game

6 feet and 201, and he is willing everywhere — forecheck, wall, net front. 14 penalty minutes in a full season describes a player who is engaged without being reckless.

The Intangibles

Undrafted out of Minnesota-Duluth, and he has played more than 600 NHL games. Coaches at 2 organisations have used him in every situation because he never needs to be told anything twice.

At 32 he is a third-line winger who kills penalties and does not hurt his team. That role lasts a few more years and then ends quickly.

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.

slot-man· shoots from where goals are scored
66.7% of his attempts in the slot, 90th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.69) · 44% keep it
durable· was available
79 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1,045 minutes

Expected goals: 46.2%; 23rd pct
Shot attempts: 49.5%; 52nd pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 41 for, 45 against. Expected: 35.4 and 41.3.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

67th

Numbers

23rd

The report ranks him 44 points above where the numbers do. 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 — 75 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 · 79 games

Top speed: 22.4 mph; 57th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.90 a game
Distance: 2.47 miles a game
Hardest shot: 88.8 mph; 76th 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 — 2 goals, 2 assists, 21 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 1045 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: WPG took 47.3% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 46.2% — 1.1 below the club he did it on.
The role: 1,045 minutes at five-on-five — 66th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Mark Scheifele	49.4%	42.5%	49.6%
Kyle Connor	50.4%	41.8%	49.0%
Josh Morrissey	50.4%	43.7%	49.9%

49.4% together, 42.5% for him apart and 49.6% for Scheifele apart. He was worse away from Scheifele, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Scheifele 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

162 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 13 of them goals. His median goal came from 15 feet. 58% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 14% from beyond forty.