This is the 2024-25 edition — an archived read. Read the 2026-27 report →
Alex Turcotte
Los Angeles Kings Center
Fifth overall in 2019, and 32 National Hockey League games by 23.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | LAK | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 0.0 | 11:16 |
| 2022-23 | LAK | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.0 | 6:59 |
| 2023-24 | LAK | 20 | 1 | 3 | 4 | +5 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 7.1 | 9:17 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 32 | 1 | 3 | 4 | +3 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 3.5 | 9:30 |
This Season So Far
The 2024-25 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
20 games, 1 goal and 3 assists for 4 points, 6 penalty minutes, 9:17 a night and plus-5. He did not play enough five-on-five minutes for an on-ice record.
Twenty games in a fourth professional season. Fifth overall picks are not supposed to arrive this slowly and a good many of them do.
The Finesse Game
14 shots in 20 games at a 7.1 per cent conversion. There is nothing to read here.
Three assists in 20 games and 4 points in 32 career games. He was a playmaking centre at Wisconsin and the injuries have taken most of what was projected. What is left is a player who competes and does not yet produce.
The Physical Game
He is 5-11 and 195 and gets to the interior without being able to hold it.
6 penalty minutes in 20 games. He forechecks hard, which on a fourth line trying to make an impression is the correct instinct.
The Intangibles
Fifth overall in 2019 out of Elk Grove, three seasons, and 32 games. A run of injuries has cost him most of the development the pick was drafted for.
He is 23 and out of runway. This is the season in which he either takes a fourth-line job or becomes the cautionary tale attached to the 2019 draft.
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.
- a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed
- he lacks itraised, and he does not have it
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.
“He forechecks hard, which on a fourth line trying to make an impression is the correct instinct.”
“He is 5-11 and 195 and gets to the interior without being able to hold it.”
The numbers underneath
Tracked
NHL Edge, 2023-24 · 20 games
- Top speed
- 23.6 mph
- 98th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.90 a game
- Distance
- 1.63 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 75.4 mph
- 10th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.1
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 84.5
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.
Usual linemates
2023-24 · 183 minutes at five-on-five
- Trevor Lewis37%
- Anze Kopitar34%
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.
Where he shoots from
goal on goal missed
24 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 1 of them goals. His median goal came from 18 feet. 54% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 13% from beyond forty.