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Alexander Wennberg
San Jose Sharks Center #21
64 per cent of his shots from inside 20 feet, and minus 25.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-15 | CBJ | 68 | 4 | 16 | 20 | -19 | 22 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 85 | 4.7 | 15:37 |
| 2015-16 | CBJ | 69 | 8 | 32 | 40 | -1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 97 | 8.3 | 15:52 |
| 2016-17 | CBJ | 80 | 13 | 46 | 59 | +9 | 21 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 109 | 11.9 | 18:23 |
| 2017-18 | CBJ | 66 | 8 | 27 | 35 | +22 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 74 | 10.8 | 18:08 |
| 2018-19 | CBJ | 75 | 2 | 23 | 25 | -1 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 64 | 3.1 | 15:05 |
| 2019-20 | CBJ | 57 | 5 | 17 | 22 | -5 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 72 | 6.9 | 16:41 |
| 2020-21 | FLA | 56 | 17 | 12 | 29 | +6 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 82 | 20.7 | 18:10 |
| 2021-22 | SEA | 80 | 11 | 26 | 37 | -26 | 28 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 95 | 11.6 | 17:51 |
| 2022-23 | SEA | 82 | 13 | 25 | 38 | -7 | 20 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 101 | 12.9 | 18:42 |
| 2023-24 | SEA/NYR | 79 | 10 | 20 | 30 | 0 | 14 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 90 | 11.1 | 17:59 |
| 2024-25 | SJS | 77 | 10 | 25 | 35 | -21 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 82 | 12.2 | 18:51 |
| 2025-26 | SJS | 80 | 18 | 37 | 55 | -25 | 18 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 93 | 19.4 | 20:27 |
| 2026-27 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 869 | 119 | 306 | 425 | -68 | 187 | 32 | 3 | 25 | 1044 | 11.4 | 17:43 |
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
18 goals and 37 assists in 80 games — 55 points, minus-25, at 20:27 a night with 8 power-play goals and only 18 penalty minutes.
The Finesse Game
A career playmaker who has learned, at 31, where goals come from. 64 per cent of his unblocked attempts came from inside 20 feet with a median of 15 — the most extreme location profile of any forward on this roster and one of the closest in the league.
18 goals from 126 attempts is a career high and it is the shot chart that did it.
37 assists is the familiar part. 425 points in 869 career games.
The Physical Game
6-2, 190, and light for the frame. 18 penalty minutes in 80 games is very low.
He is a positional defensive centre rather than a physical one — good on draws, reliable on the kill, and not somebody who wins pucks by force.
The Intangibles
47.2 per cent of the expected goals, 30th percentile, and 48.5 per cent of the shot attempts, 41st, across 1,141 minutes, with the goals 40-54 against.
The minus-25 is not supported by any of that. San Jose’s goaltenders conceded 20 goals more than the chances they faced — the fourth-worst mark in the league — and a centre taking 20 minutes a night on a rebuilding club wears a great deal of it.
10 points in his last 10, 4 of them goals. He is 31, a 14th overall pick, and this was one of the better seasons of his career hidden inside one of the worst plus-minus figures in the book.
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.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1,141 minutes
- Expected goals
- 47.2%
- 31st pct
- Shot attempts
- 48.5%
- 42nd 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: 40 for, 54 against. Expected: 39.1 and 43.7.
The eye and the numbers
SightedThe report ranks him 24 points above where the numbers do. 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.
The same player was graded a second time from his biography and his box score alone, with the measured record withheld. That reading lands 4 points from the numbers; this one lands 24. Across the whole control the two distances come out the same, which is worth knowing in both directions: the arithmetic on both sides of the sighted reading did not buy it any accuracy, and it did not cost it any either.
All three 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 — 73 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 · 80 games
- Top speed
- 23.1 mph
- 87th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.27 a game
- Distance
- 2.89 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 89.2 mph
- 78th 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 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first
10
points in his last 10 games — 4 goals, 6 assists, 11 shots
Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.
Usual linemates
2025-26 · 1126 minutes at five-on-five
- Philipp Kurashevoff the roster22%
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
- SJS took 47.4% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 47.2% — 0.2 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Second line, 1,141 minutes at five-on-five — 76th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| William Eklund | 49.7% | 44.2% | 49.9% |
| Mario Ferraro | 49.3% | 45.7% | 45.6% |
| Tyler Toffoli | 48.5% | 46.5% | 48.8% |
49.7% together, 44.2% for him apart and 49.9% for Eklund apart. He was worse away from Eklund, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Eklund did.
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
126 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 18 of them goals. His median goal came from 16 feet. 64% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 10% from beyond forty.