Alexander Holtz
Vegas Golden Knights Right Wing #10
The seventh pick in 2020, 28 games, and 9 points.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | NJD | 9 | 0 | 2 | 2 | -5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0.0 | 12:16 |
| 2022-23 | NJD | 19 | 3 | 1 | 4 | -6 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 14.3 | 10:16 |
| 2023-24 | NJD | 82 | 16 | 12 | 28 | -15 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 122 | 13.1 | 11:38 |
| 2024-25 | VGK | 53 | 4 | 8 | 12 | -3 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 69 | 5.8 | 11:35 |
| 2025-26 | VGK | 28 | 3 | 6 | 9 | -1 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 10.0 | 11:29 |
| 2026-27 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 191 | 26 | 29 | 55 | -30 | 44 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 254 | 10.2 | 11:29 |
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
3 goals and 6 assists in 28 games — 9 points, minus-1, at 11:29 a night with 10 penalty minutes.
55 points in 191 career games.
The Finesse Game
The shot is genuinely excellent and always was — it is the reason he went 7th overall and it is the only thing that has kept him in the league.
53 unblocked attempts, 3 goals, median 23 feet with 45 per cent from inside 20. That is good ice and a very small sample.
55 points in 191 career games is the record of a first-round pick who has not established himself anywhere.
The Physical Game
6 foot even, 198, and he does not engage. 10 penalty minutes in 28 games.
The skating is ordinary, the forechecking is absent, and the defensive reads have been the criticism at every stop. 3 organisations have now decided the shot is not enough on its own.
The Intangibles
50.8 per cent of the expected goals, 61st percentile, against only 44.8 per cent of the shot attempts, 11th percentile, across 319 minutes — a 6-point gap in a small sample, and on this roster the weakest attempt share of anybody.
6 points in his last 10, 2 of them goals.
He is 24, and there is still a real shot in there. On a club this good he will be the thirteenth forward on most nights, which is not how a scorer finds his game.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 319 minutes
- Expected goals
- 50.8%
- 62nd pct
- Shot attempts
- 45.7%
- 17th pct
share of the chances while he was out there
share of the attempts while he was out there
Goals while he was on the ice: 14 for, 15 against. Expected: 11.8 and 11.4.
The eye and the numbers
SightedThe numbers rank him 47 points above where the report does. It was written with these numbers on screen and departs from them anyway, which makes the gap a judgment rather than an oversight. Why the numbers land there sets out the club he did it on, the minutes he played and the men he played them with.
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 — 65 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 · 28 games
- Top speed
- 21.6 mph
- 24th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.93 a game
- Distance
- 1.95 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 89.0 mph
- 77th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.2
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
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 19 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first
6
points in his last 10 games — 2 goals, 4 assists, 14 shots
Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.
Usual linemates
2025-26 · 309 minutes at five-on-five
- Tomas Hertl26%
- Reilly Smithoff the roster24%
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
- VGK took 53.4% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 50.8% — 2.6 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- 319 minutes at five-on-five — 6th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ben Hutton | 55.8% | 48.5% | 52.3% |
| Noah Hanifin | 45.7% | 52.7% | 55.5% |
| Jeremy Lauzon | 45.4% | 53.3% | 53.5% |
55.8% together, 48.5% for him apart and 52.3% for Hutton 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
53 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 3 of them goals. His median goal came from 11 feet. 47% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 19% from beyond forty.