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Alexis Lafrenière

The 1st overall pick in 2020, and the second-best on-ice rate on the club.

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

2020-21	NYR	56	12	9	21	-7	8	0	0	4	67	17.9	13:53
2021-22	NYR	79	19	12	31	+2	37	0	0	4	110	17.3	13:59
2022-23	NYR	81	16	23	39	+10	33	3	0	2	135	11.8	15:13
2023-24	NYR	82	28	29	57	+2	40	2	0	5	217	12.9	17:16
2024-25	NYR	82	17	28	45	-13	38	2	0	4	153	11.1	17:00
2025-26	NYR	82	24	33	57	-7	20	9	0	5	164	14.6	17:36
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	462	116	134	250	-13	176	16	0	24	846	13.7	15:57

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

24 goals and 33 assists in all 82 games — 57 points, minus-7, at 17:36 a night with 9 power-play goals. A career high.

The Finesse Game

The shot selection has improved every year and is now good: 259 unblocked attempts with 46 per cent from inside 20 feet, median 22, and 23 goals.

He is not fast and never was. What he has is strength on the puck and hands that work in a crowd, which is why the ice he shoots from keeps getting closer to the net.

33 assists is a fair return.

The Physical Game

6-2, 191, and he plays heavier than the frame — he protects pucks along the wall and does not get knocked off them. 20 penalty minutes.

The Intangibles

53.4 per cent of the expected goals, 79th percentile, and 52.4 per cent of the shot attempts, 77th — the second-best forward mark on a club that finished 29th in even-strength expected goals for.

The first pick in 2020 spent 4 years being called a bust in the loudest market in the sport. He is 25, has 250 points in 462 games, and just had the best season of his career on a team that could not generate offence.

7 points in his last 10. This is a good NHL winger. Whether that is what a 1st overall pick is supposed to be is a separate and less interesting question.

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.

durable· was available
82 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
drives-play· the shot clock turns his way while he is out there
53.4% of the expected goals at five-on-five with him on, 45.7% for his club in the minutes he sat: +7.7, 97th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats moderately (0.39) · 29% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1,193 minutes

Expected goals: 53.4%; 79th pct
Shot attempts: 52.4%; 78th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 52 for, 44 against. Expected: 50.7 and 44.3.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

67th

Numbers

79th

The two rank him within 12 points of one another. It was written with these numbers on screen, so the agreement is not corroboration — the arithmetic is on both sides of it.

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 — 75 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 · 82 games

Top speed: 22.3 mph; 55th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 1.23 a game
Distance: 2.82 miles a game
Hardest shot: 84.3 mph; 47th 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 — 3 goals, 4 assists, 18 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 1193 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: NYR took 48.0% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 53.4% — 5.4 above the club he did it on.
The role: First line, 1,193 minutes at five-on-five — 82nd percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Mika Zibanejad	52.3%	54.6%	47.9%
Vladislav Gavrikov	52.8%	53.8%	48.1%
Artemi Panarin	54.0%	53.0%	52.2%

52.3% together, 54.6% for him apart and 47.9% for Zibanejad apart. Zibanejad was worse away from him while his own share held — the pairing was doing more for Zibanejad 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

259 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 23 of them goals. His median goal came from 10 feet. 47% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 14% from beyond forty.