Arshdeep Bains
Vancouver Canucks Left Wing
Undrafted, 28 games, and 82 per cent of his shots from inside 20 feet.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-24 | VAN | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -5 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0.0 | 11:48 |
| 2024-25 | VAN | 13 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 12.5 | 10:30 |
| 2025-26 | VAN | 28 | 1 | 4 | 5 | -3 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 5.6 | 9:12 |
| 2026-27 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 49 | 2 | 4 | 6 | -13 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 30 | 6.7 | 9:58 |
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
1 goal and 4 assists in 28 games — 5 points, minus-3, at 9:12 a night with 12 penalty minutes.
6 points in 49 career games.
The Finesse Game
22 unblocked attempts is very low volume, and 82 per cent of them came from inside 20 feet, with a median of 11 — as close as anybody in this edition shoots, on far too few attempts to trust.
1 goal came of it. 22 attempts is not enough to conclude anything except that when he shoots, he is standing in the right place.
4 assists in 28 games is thin.
The Physical Game
6 foot even, 184, and light. 12 penalty minutes.
He forechecks willingly and does not win much. The skating is fair and the compete is what got an undrafted forward out of the Western league this far.
The Intangibles
51.1 per cent of the expected goals, 64th percentile, and 48.4 per cent of the shot attempts, 40th, across 243 minutes.
That chance share is the best figure any Vancouver forward posted, and it came in 243 minutes, which is the caveat.
3 points in his last 10, one a goal. He is 25, undrafted, the first player of Punjabi descent to play for the club he grew up supporting, and a thirteenth forward. On this roster that is worth a look.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 243 minutes
- Expected goals
- 51.1%
- 64th pct
- Shot attempts
- 48.4%
- 41st 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: 6 for, 8 against. Expected: 9.7 and 9.3.
The eye and the numbers
SightedThe numbers rank him 26 points above where the report does. 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 49 points from the numbers; this one lands 26. 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 — 70 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 · 28 games
- Top speed
- 22.6 mph
- 67th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.96 a game
- Distance
- 1.48 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 82.8 mph
- 35th 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 13 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first
3
points in his last 10 games — 1 goals, 2 assists, 15 shots
Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.
Usual linemates
2025-26 · 243 minutes at five-on-five
- Max Sasson52%
- Aatu Räty23%
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
- VAN took 43.5% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 51.1% — 7.6 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- 243 minutes at five-on-five — 2nd percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Max Sasson | 53.7% | 47.2% | 42.2% |
| Linus Karlsson | 55.8% | 44.2% | 47.8% |
| Marcus Pettersson | 49.0% | 52.2% | 42.2% |
53.7% together, 47.2% for him apart and 42.2% for Sasson apart. Both were worse apart, so whatever the two of them had together was doing real work.
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
22 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 1 of them goals. His median goal came from 10 feet. 82% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 14% from beyond forty.