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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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Alex Killorn

Photo by Michael Miller, CC BY-SA 3.0

Alex Killorn

Anaheim Ducks Left Wing #17

1,000 games, 2 Cups, and a role here that has quietly become teaching.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2012-13TBL3871219-614102828.516:49
2013-14TBL82172441+8633021739.816:47
2014-15TBL71152338+83611513011.516:56
2015-16TBL81142640+14443031549.116:48
2016-17TBL81191736-96641417610.818:00
2017-18TBL82153247+22452011569.616:30
2018-19TBL82182240+224521215311.814:52
2019-20TBL68262349+192080713020.017:56
2020-21TBL56151833-13750112112.417:54
2021-22TBL82253459+16660216415.218:42
2022-23TBL82273764+184531514318.917:13
2023-24ANA63181836-155450514512.418:44
2024-25ANA82191837+123001513414.217:17
2025-26ANA82151833-24030214810.116:42
2026-27 so far—————————————
Career—1032250322572+9160546546200912.417:12

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

All 82 games, 15 goals and 18 assists, minus-2. 16 and a half minutes a night in a middle-6 role, at 36 years old. It was his 1,032nd career game.

The Finesse Game

The foot speed went some time ago and he has replaced it with knowing where to stand. He gets to the inside — 46 per cent of his unblocked attempts came from within 20 feet, median 21 — because he starts moving before the puck does.

The hands are still fine in tight. 15 goals is a fair return for a player taking 148 shots and playing away from the top power-play unit.

The Physical Game

6-1, 205, and he still finishes his checks and still goes to the net front on the power play, which is where 3 of his goals came from. 40 penalty minutes is a veteran taking the ones that need taking.

He cannot chase a young winger down the wall any more. On a team as fast as this one is becoming, that will be increasingly visible.

The Intangibles

2 Stanley Cups in Tampa and a reputation as one of the more respected men in the room, which is presumably why Anaheim keeps giving him minutes on a rebuilding roster.

The numbers say he is earning them: 50.9 per cent of the expected goals, 62nd percentile, and the goals came out 43-44 at 5-on-5 — level, on a club that conceded 190. 4 goals in his last 10 games. He is 37 in September and there is no sign yet of the cliff.

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

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1,055 minutes

Expected goals
50.9%
63rd pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
52.5%
78th pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 43 for, 44 against. Expected: 48.0 and 46.3.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted
Report
61st
Numbers
63rd

The two rank him within 2 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 — 74 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
22.5 mph
62nd pct

fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.2

Bursts over 20 mph
0.84 a game

how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes

Distance
2.47 miles a game

skated, all strengths

Hardest shot
85.1 mph
52nd pct

one shot; the league's average best is 83.6

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

7

points in his last 10 games — 4 goals, 3 assists, 19 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 1055 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
ANA took 50.6% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 50.9% — 0.3 above the club he did it on.
The role
Third line, 1,055 minutes at five-on-five — 67th percentile in ice time.

With and without

TeammateTogetherHim apartMate apart
Jacob Trouba50.8%51.0%49.4%
Beckett Sennecke53.7%49.2%50.2%
Jackson LaCombe53.8%49.2%51.2%

50.8% together, 51.0% for him apart and 49.4% for Trouba apart. Splitting them up moved neither man. Whatever is driving the share, it is not this pairing.

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

209 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 16 of them goals. His median goal came from 18 feet. 46% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 18% from beyond forty.