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2026-27 edition Ask a direct question about this edition of the book — who, how many, how common, which group more — and it is answered with a table computed on this page from the edition’s index: the season line, height and age, the on-ice percentiles, the grades and the traits read out of every report. Ask for a view on named players — what a comparison comes down to, what makes a man — and you get the book’s reading of their own pages, and only those. The model turns your question into a query and phrases the result, or reads the pages it is handed; it never originates a figure, and an answer carrying a figure that is on neither the table nor the pages is withheld. It does not forecast, and it says so when a question is outside what the book holds.

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Andrew Peeke

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Andrew Peeke

Utah Mammoth Defense #26

386 games, 77 per cent of his shots from beyond 40 feet, and 53 goals for.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2019-20CBJ22123+14000234.313:51
2020-21CBJ11033-4400050.017:09
2021-22CBJ8221315-1460000722.821:29
2022-23CBJ806713-4122001906.721:15
2023-24CBJ/BOS381910-114000372.716:24
2024-25BOS7611617-1015010801.318:36
2025-26BOS775914-1222000826.119:23
2026-27 so far—————————————
Career—386165975-811410113894.119:23

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

5 goals and 9 assists in 77 games — 14 points, minus-12, at 19:23 a night with 22 penalty minutes. His 5-on-5 work was done in Boston.

His 386th career game.

The Finesse Game

133 unblocked attempts from a median of 56 feet, 77 per cent from beyond 40 and 5 per cent from inside 20, 5 goals.

16 goals in 386 career games. 9 assists in 77 games is near the bottom of this edition and no club has ever asked him for more.

The Physical Game

6-3, 214, and a proper defensive defenceman — he closes gaps, defends his net front, and blocks a great many shots. 22 penalty minutes is disciplined.

The skating is heavy and genuine speed beats him wide.

The Intangibles

45.1 per cent of the expected goals, 15th percentile, and 48.0 per cent of the shot attempts, 36th, across 1,297 minutes in Boston, with the chances 47.3 for and 57.4 against.

The goals came out 39 for and 53 against, which is 4 worse than the chances underneath them. Boston’s goaltending saved 23 more than the shots it faced, the third-best figure in the league, and he is one of the few men on the roster who did not get any of it.

He is 28, a 34th overall pick, and joins a Utah blue line already carrying Sergachev, Marino, Weegar and Schmidt. This is a fifth or sixth defenceman on a club that has 4 good ones.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1,297 minutes

Expected goals
45.1%
16th pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
48%
37th pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 39 for, 53 against. Expected: 47.3 and 57.4.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted
Report
27th
Numbers
16th

The two rank him within 11 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 — 68 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 · 77 games

Top speed
20.9 mph
24th pct

fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.6

Bursts over 20 mph
0.21 a game

how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes

Distance
2.66 miles a game

skated, all strengths

Hardest shot
91.3 mph
54th pct

one shot; the league's average best is 88.9

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.

Recent form

Last 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first

2

points in his last 10 games — 1 goals, 1 assists, 20 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 with BOS · 1297 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
BOS took 48.0% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 45.1% — 2.9 below the club he did it on.
The role
First pair, 1,297 minutes at five-on-five — 88th percentile in ice time.

With and without

TeammateTogetherHim apartMate apart
Nikita Zadorov45.6%44.9%47.2%
Fraser Minten46.1%44.7%53.0%
David Pastrnak46.3%44.7%49.1%

45.6% together, 44.9% for him apart and 47.2% for Zadorov apart. Splitting them up moved neither man. Whatever is driving the share, it is not this pairing.

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

133 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 5 of them goals. His median goal came from 31 feet. 5% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 77% from beyond forty.