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Alex Laferriere

A third-round pick who has turned into a genuine top-6 winger by doing the unglamorous parts properly.

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

2023-24	LAK	81	12	11	23	-14	46	0	0	2	147	8.2	13:13
2024-25	LAK	77	19	23	42	+22	20	2	0	4	193	9.8	16:32
2025-26	LAK	82	21	23	44	+3	18	3	2	3	209	10.1	18:19
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	240	52	57	109	+11	84	5	2	9	549	9.5	16:01

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

21 goals and 44 points in all 82 games on 209 shots, plus-3, 18 minutes a night. He led the club in 5-on-5 ice time among forwards and played 41 percent of it with Byfield.

The Finesse Game

Not a flashy player and not trying to be. The shot is a good one — he gets a lot of them away, he shoots from places that produce rebounds, and the 10 percent conversion rate is honest for the kind of chance he takes.

What makes him useful on a scoring line is that he retrieves pucks and gives them to people who can do more with them. He arrives on the forecheck first, wins it back, and then plays a simple supporting game rather than trying to be the creator. That is a real skill and it is why he keeps ending up alongside the team’s better players.

The skating is solid without being a weapon. He is quick enough to arrive on time, which is all his game requires.

The Physical Game

6-1 and 205, and he is willing everywhere. He finishes checks on the forecheck, goes to the net, and takes the cross-checks that come with standing there. 18 penalty minutes across a full season says he does it without losing his head.

The Intangibles

24 this season, 3 years in, and improving on schedule. There is nothing about his game that depends on a skill that will disappear.

The ceiling is probably a 25-goal, 55-point winger who plays in every situation, which is a very good outcome for the 83rd pick and better than most of the players taken ahead of him.

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 · 1,185 minutes

Expected goals: 52.5%; 74th pct
Shot attempts: 53.6%; 84th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 47 for, 40 against. Expected: 49.3 and 44.6.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

92nd

Numbers

74th

The two rank him within 18 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 — 81 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: 23.4 mph; 93rd pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 2.22 a game
Distance: 2.86 miles a game
Hardest shot: 87.0 mph; 63rd 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 — 3 goals, 5 assists, 35 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 1185 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: LAK took 51.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 52.5% — 0.6 above the club he did it on.
The role: First line, 1,185 minutes at five-on-five — 81st percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Quinton Byfield	57.4%	48.2%	49.5%
Mikey Anderson	51.8%	53.1%	50.7%
Drew Doughty	55.8%	50.1%	54.1%

57.4% together, 48.2% for him apart and 49.5% for Byfield apart. Both were worse apart, so whatever the two of them had together was doing real work.

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

332 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 21 of them goals. His median goal came from 13 feet. 39% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 21% from beyond forty.