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Alexandre Texier
St. Louis Blues Left Wing
Eleven points in 31 games in a season interrupted twice, from the best French player of his generation.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | CBJ | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | +3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 16.7 | 12:46 |
| 2019-20 | CBJ | 36 | 6 | 7 | 13 | +3 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 49 | 12.2 | 12:45 |
| 2020-21 | CBJ | 49 | 4 | 11 | 15 | -13 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 75 | 5.3 | 15:50 |
| 2021-22 | CBJ | 36 | 11 | 9 | 20 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 59 | 18.6 | 14:36 |
| 2023-24 | CBJ | 78 | 12 | 18 | 30 | -5 | 38 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 109 | 11.0 | 15:11 |
| 2024-25 | STL | 31 | 6 | 5 | 11 | -3 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 50 | 12.0 | 12:29 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 232 | 40 | 50 | 90 | -15 | 92 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 348 | 11.5 | 14:28 |
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
6 goals and 5 assists in 31 games — 11 points at 12:29 a night, minus-3, with a game-winner and 10 penalty minutes.
42.5 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 7th percentile — the worst mark on the roster, across 354 minutes. His ice went 13-16 against an expectation of 11.27-15.25, which on a sample that size settles nothing.
The Finesse Game
50 attempts at a median of 35 feet with 30 per cent from inside 20 and 39 per cent from beyond 40, converting at 12.0 per cent. He is a perimeter shooter and 6 goals in 31 games is a fair rate.
5 assists in 31 games. The hands are good and the pace is the problem; he has never been able to hold a top-nine job for a full season.
The Physical Game
6-1 and 196 and he does not play to it. He does not forecheck with force and he does not win pucks on the wall.
10 penalty minutes in 31 games. He is disciplined and largely uninvolved in that half of the game.
The Intangibles
A second-round pick in 2017 and the best French player of his generation — 232 NHL games and 90 points across two organisations.
He left Columbus in 2023 to go home to France for a season for personal reasons and came back. He is 26 and this is a depth forward’s file with an unusual story attached.
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
- ordinaryraised, and called ordinary
- he lacks itraised, and he does not have it
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.
- perimeter· shoots from the outside, by choice or because he cannot get in
39.4% of his attempts from 40 feet or beyond, 99th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
“He does not forecheck with force and he does not win pucks on the wall.”
“He does not forecheck with force and he does not win pucks on the wall.”
“The hands are good and the pace is the problem; he has never been able to hold a top-nine job for a full season.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 354 minutes
- Expected goals
- 42.5%
- 8th pct
- Shot attempts
- 45.9%
- 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: 13 for, 16 against. Expected: 11.3 and 15.3.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 13 points of one another. 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.
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 — 67 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, 2024-25 · 31 games
- Top speed
- 21.8 mph
- 30th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.68 a game
- Distance
- 2.03 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 91.1 mph
- 84th 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 83.9
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.
Usual linemates
2024-25 · 354 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
- STL took 51.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 42.5% — 8.6 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- 354 minutes at five-on-five — 9th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ryan Suter | 42.8% | 42.4% | 48.7% |
| Pavel Buchnevich | 44.8% | 41.1% | 53.9% |
| Justin Faulk | 36.4% | 44.9% | 48.9% |
42.8% together, 42.4% for him apart and 48.7% for Suter apart. Suter was better away from him while his own share held, which is a mark against him more 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
71 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 6 of them goals. His median goal came from 16 feet. 30% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 39% from beyond forty.