Anthony Mantha

6-5, 33 goals, and plus-10 on a club that was minus-36.

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

2015-16	DET	10	2	1	3	-6	2	2	0	1	18	11.1	11:42
2016-17	DET	60	17	19	36	+10	53	1	0	3	133	12.8	15:54
2017-18	DET	80	24	24	48	-1	52	9	0	2	190	12.6	17:18
2018-19	DET	67	25	23	48	-8	30	7	0	1	198	12.6	17:50
2019-20	DET	43	16	22	38	-7	34	6	0	3	137	11.7	18:54
2020-21	DET/WSH	56	15	14	29	-14	25	3	0	0	138	10.9	18:08
2021-22	WSH	37	9	14	23	+4	14	0	0	0	82	11.0	15:10
2022-23	WSH	67	11	16	27	-8	31	1	0	2	119	9.2	14:13
2023-24	WSH/VGK	74	23	21	44	+11	25	3	0	0	113	20.3	14:13
2024-25	CGY	13	4	3	7	+6	11	1	1	1	15	26.7	13:54
2025-26	PIT	81	33	31	64	+10	43	7	0	2	152	21.7	15:11
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	588	179	188	367	-3	320	40	1	15	1295	13.8	16:05

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

33 goals and 31 assists in 81 games — 64 points, plus-10, at 15:11 a night with 7 power-play goals. His 5-on-5 work was done in Pittsburgh.

The Finesse Game

The best season of his career and the shot chart explains it: 212 unblocked attempts, 33 goals, median 22 feet with 47 per cent from inside 20.

That is a 6-5 forward doing his scoring in the paint, and 33 goals from 152 shots on goal is a remarkable conversion — high enough that it will regress, and earned from ice that makes some of it repeatable.

31 assists is a career high too.

The Physical Game

6-5 and 240 pounds, which is enormous, and he has spent a decade being told he does not use it. 43 penalty minutes.

He is not a punishing forechecker. What he is now is a net-front presence who cannot be moved, and on the power play that is worth a great deal.

The Intangibles

50.8 per cent of the expected goals, 61st percentile, with the chances 46.7 to 45.2 and the goals 62-47 in his favour.

He is 32, a 20th overall pick, and arrives on a club that finished 5th on the power play and could not finish at 5-on-5. A 30-goal scorer who works from 22 feet is precisely the shape of the problem New Jersey had.

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
81 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
sheltered· is started in the attacking end
64% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 93rd percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 47% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1,023 minutes

Expected goals: 50.8%; 62nd pct
Shot attempts: 48.3%; 39th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 62 for, 47 against. Expected: 46.7 and 45.2.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

55th

Numbers

62nd

The two rank him within 7 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 — 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 · 81 games

Top speed: 22.9 mph; 81st pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 1.19 a game
Distance: 2.38 miles a game
Hardest shot: 96.0 mph; 98th 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 — 7 goals, 4 assists, 22 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 with PIT · 1023 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: PIT took 51.8% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 50.8% — 1.0 below the club he did it on.
The role: Second line, 1,023 minutes at five-on-five — 62nd percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Justin Brazeau	52.3%	49.4%	51.1%
Ryan Shea	52.1%	50.0%	52.5%
Thomas Novak	51.2%	50.6%	56.9%

52.3% together, 49.4% for him apart and 51.1% for Brazeau 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

212 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 33 of them goals. His median goal came from 13 feet. 47% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 16% from beyond forty.