Alexander Petrovic

6-5, and not a single shot from inside 20 feet all season.

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

2012-13	FLA	6	0	0	0	-8	25	0	0	0	5	0.0	18:47
2013-14	FLA	7	0	1	1	+3	8	0	0	0	4	0.0	12:14
2014-15	FLA	33	0	3	3	-4	34	0	0	0	29	0.0	16:16
2015-16	FLA	66	2	15	17	+17	90	0	0	0	53	3.8	16:57
2016-17	FLA	49	1	13	14	-1	79	0	0	0	55	1.8	18:09
2017-18	FLA	67	2	11	13	-2	98	0	0	1	60	3.3	14:39
2018-19	FLA/EDM	35	0	2	2	-15	26	0	0	0	47	0.0	16:31
2023-24	DAL	1	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	2	0.0	12:52
2024-25	DAL	5	0	0	0	-2	4	0	0	0	5	0.0	14:06
2025-26	DAL	54	2	8	10	+2	47	0	0	0	57	3.5	15:21
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	323	7	53	60	-11	411	0	0	1	317	2.2	16:09

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 8 assists in 54 games — 10 points, plus-2, at 15:21 a night with 47 penalty minutes. His 5-on-5 work was done in Dallas.

The Finesse Game

71 unblocked attempts from a median of 54 feet, and none at all from inside 20. 2 goals.

60 points in 323 career games. He is a defensive defenceman of the oldest kind and the club wants nothing else from him.

The Physical Game

6-5, 215, and it is the whole of it. 47 penalty minutes, willing to fight, and effective in front of his own net.

The skating is poor. He is beaten wide by average NHL wingers and cannot recover, which is why a man this size has never held a top-4 job for long.

The Intangibles

An awkward split: 46.8 per cent of the expected goals, 26th percentile, against only 44.4 per cent of the shot attempts, 11th, in 800 minutes. His pair was heavily outshot and the chances stayed close, which on a Dallas team built to concede the perimeter is the system working rather than the man.

The goals went 35-34 in his favour, which is a large positive gap and belongs to Oettinger and DeSmith.

He is 34, returning to the club that drafted him in 2010, as a seventh defenceman. There is not much more to say than that.

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.

hard-minutes· is started in his own end, against the other club's best
39% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 8th 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 · 800 minutes

Expected goals: 46.8%; 27th pct
Shot attempts: 44.4%; 9th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 35 for, 34 against. Expected: 29.9 and 34.0.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

2nd

Numbers

27th

The numbers rank him 25 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 — 60 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 · 54 games

Top speed: 21.3 mph; 36th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.22 a game
Distance: 2.11 miles a game
Hardest shot: 92.7 mph; 64th 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, 1 assists, 17 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 with DAL · 800 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: DAL took 50.5% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 46.8% — 3.7 below the club he did it on.
The role: Third pair, 800 minutes at five-on-five — 38th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Lian Bichsel	41.9%	49.5%	52.2%
Jason Robertson	55.8%	42.4%	55.4%
Wyatt Johnston	46.9%	46.7%	51.9%

41.9% together, 49.5% for him apart and 52.2% for Bichsel apart. Both were better apart than together — the pairing was doing neither of them any favours.

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

71 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 2 of them goals. His median goal came from 40 feet. 0% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 75% from beyond forty.