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Alexander Kerfoot
Utah Mammoth Center
The 89th percentile of chances from a third-line centre, and 49 per cent of his attempts from inside 20 feet.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-18 | COL | 79 | 19 | 24 | 43 | -7 | 28 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 81 | 23.5 | 13:27 |
| 2018-19 | COL | 78 | 15 | 27 | 42 | -9 | 38 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 116 | 12.9 | 14:53 |
| 2019-20 | TOR | 65 | 9 | 19 | 28 | -2 | 32 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 88 | 10.2 | 14:46 |
| 2020-21 | TOR | 56 | 8 | 15 | 23 | +2 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 68 | 11.8 | 14:27 |
| 2021-22 | TOR | 82 | 13 | 38 | 51 | +19 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 117 | 11.1 | 15:13 |
| 2022-23 | TOR | 82 | 10 | 22 | 32 | +8 | 30 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 133 | 7.5 | 14:37 |
| 2023-24 | ARI | 82 | 13 | 32 | 45 | -15 | 26 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 103 | 12.6 | 17:26 |
| 2024-25 | UTA | 81 | 11 | 17 | 28 | -5 | 14 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 101 | 10.9 | 15:15 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 605 | 98 | 194 | 292 | -9 | 200 | 14 | 6 | 9 | 807 | 12.1 | 15:03 |
This Season So Far
The 2025-26 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
11 goals and 17 assists in 81 games — 28 points at 15:15 a night, minus-5, with 2 shorthanded goals and only 14 penalty minutes.
54.7 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 89th percentile. His ice went 41-42 against an expectation of 44.25-36.70 — three goals of scoring missing and five conceded above expectation, on a third line that was winning the chances comfortably.
The Finesse Game
101 attempts at a median of 20 feet with 49 per cent from inside 20, converting at 10.9 per cent. He goes to the paint and the finishing is ordinary.
17 assists in 81 games. The value is positional rather than creative — he supports the puck low, he makes the simple play out of his own end, and he does not turn it over.
The Physical Game
5-11 and 185 and light. He does not forecheck with force and he does not win pucks against defencemen.
14 penalty minutes in 81 games. He does not foul, he is trusted with a lead, and he is a first-unit penalty killer on a unit that finished 30th in the league.
The Intangibles
A fifth-round pick in 2012 who went to Harvard, did not sign with New Jersey, and became a free agent — 605 games and 292 points across four organisations.
He is 31. On a club with three centres 25 and under, the job is to take the draws none of them should be taking yet.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 951 minutes
- Expected goals
- 54.7%
- 89th pct
- Shot attempts
- 54.2%
- 89th 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: 41 for, 42 against. Expected: 44.3 and 36.7.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 40 points above where the report does. It was written for a back edition, with the seasons that followed already known. Neither the agreement nor the gap says anything about the eye, and this report is excluded from the club-level comparison for the same reason. 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 637 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 72 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.
Usual linemates
2024-25 · 951 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, 2024-25
- The club
- UTA took 53.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 54.7% — 1.5 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third line, 951 minutes at five-on-five — 54th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kevin Stenlund | 55.3% | 54.1% | 47.2% |
| Ian Cole | 54.8% | 54.6% | 53.0% |
| Mikhail Sergachev | 53.0% | 55.6% | 52.0% |
55.3% together, 54.1% for him apart and 47.2% for Stenlund apart. Stenlund was worse away from him while his own share held — the pairing was doing more for Stenlund than for him.
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
142 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 11 of them goals. His median goal came from 10 feet. 49% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 23% from beyond forty.