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Alex Vlasic

6-6, 21 minutes a night, and the 3rd percentile in expected goals.

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

2021-22	CHI	15	1	1	2	-2	2	0	0	0	12	8.3	14:19
2022-23	CHI	6	0	1	1	-1	0	0	0	0	4	0.0	19:38
2023-24	CHI	76	2	14	16	-4	45	0	0	1	71	2.8	21:29
2024-25	CHI	82	4	26	30	-23	12	1	0	0	103	3.9	23:16
2025-26	CHI	81	2	19	21	-16	17	0	0	0	86	2.3	21:08
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	260	9	61	70	-46	76	1	0	1	276	3.3	21:29

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

2 goals and 19 assists in 81 games, minus-16, at 21:08 a night with 1,440 5-on-5 minutes — the most on the club.

The Finesse Game

Almost none. 131 unblocked attempts from a median of 56 feet, 3 per cent of them inside 20, and 2 goals. 9 goals in 260 career games.

The first pass is functional. He is not going to add anything at the offensive blue line and the club does not ask.

The Physical Game

6-6, 217, with reach that ends plays and enough mobility to stay with most forwards. 17 penalty minutes in 81 games of the hardest assignment available is unusually disciplined for a man his size.

The Intangibles

The numbers are among the worst in this edition: 40.9 per cent of the expected goals — 3rd percentile — with the expected goals running 48.8 to 70.4 against across 1,440 minutes, and the actual goals 50-69.

The context is a club that was last in the league in expected goals for and 31st against, and Vlasic drew every top line on the schedule. Somebody had to, and there is nobody here to share it with.

He is 25 and 260 games in. The honest position is that this season tells us very little about him and quite a lot about Chicago, and that a defenceman cannot post a third-percentile rate for a second straight year without it starting to be about 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.

disciplined· stays out of the box
0.21 penalty minutes a game over 81, 10th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.75) · 35% keep it
durable· was available
81 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
hard-minutes· is started in his own end, against the other club's best
36% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 3rd percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1,440 minutes

Expected goals: 40.9%; 3rd pct
Shot attempts: 44.9%; 11th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 50 for, 69 against. Expected: 48.8 and 70.4.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

19th

Numbers

3rd

The two rank him within 16 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 — 66 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 · 81 games

Top speed: 22.4 mph; 77th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.88 a game
Distance: 2.93 miles a game
Hardest shot: 95.4 mph; 81st 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 — 0 goals, 4 assists, 16 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 1440 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: CHI took 43.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 40.9% — 2.3 below the club he did it on.
The role: First pair, 1,440 minutes at five-on-five — 94th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Louis Crevier	41.0%	40.8%	42.8%
Ilya Mikheyev	42.2%	40.1%	41.0%
Tyler Bertuzzi	45.4%	38.8%	44.8%

41.0% together, 40.8% for him apart and 42.8% for Crevier 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

131 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 2 of them goals. His median goal came from 54 feet. 3% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 77% from beyond forty.