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.
The numbers underneath
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.