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| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-21 | OTT | 47 | 3 | 11 | 14 | +4 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 39 | 7.7 | 18:23 |
| 2021-22 | OTT | 81 | 6 | 16 | 22 | +1 | 60 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 92 | 6.5 | 21:02 |
| 2022-23 | OTT | 53 | 3 | 7 | 10 | +2 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 41 | 7.3 | 20:15 |
| 2023-24 | OTT | 69 | 5 | 20 | 25 | +5 | 32 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 85 | 5.9 | 21:01 |
| 2024-25 | OTT | 56 | 2 | 11 | 13 | +3 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 57 | 3.5 | 20:38 |
| 2025-26 | OTT | 81 | 5 | 25 | 30 | +22 | 57 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 92 | 5.4 | 20:48 |
| 2026-27 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 387 | 24 | 90 | 114 | +37 | 248 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 406 | 5.9 | 20:30 |
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 25 assists in 81 games — 30 points, plus-22, at 20:48 a night with 1,402 5-on-5 minutes, the most on the club.
The Finesse Game
Almost none. 148 unblocked attempts from a median of 58 feet, 3 per cent from inside 20, 5 goals.
25 assists from 21 minutes a night is a fair return for a defenceman whose job is to give the puck to somebody better and then defend the consequences.
The Physical Game
6-3, 201, and genuinely hard. 57 penalty minutes, a willingness to hit and to block shots, and he clears his own crease properly.
The Intangibles
52.1 per cent of the expected goals, 71st percentile, and 51.3 per cent of the shot attempts, 69th, across 1,400 minutes of the hardest assignment on a club that finished 1st in the league in even-strength expected goals against.
The goals went 56-49 in his favour, and the plus-22 — the best figure on the roster — agrees with it, which on this team is rare.
He is 30, undrafted out of Russia, and arrived in the NHL at 25. 6 years later he plays the most minutes on the best defensive team in hockey. That is one of the better scouting stories in this book.
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.
- perimeter· shoots from the outside, by choice or because he cannot get in
81.8% of his attempts from 40 feet or beyond, 91st percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
- durable· was available
81 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
- hard-minutes· is started in his own end, against the other club's best
39% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 7th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1,402 minutes
- Expected goals
- 52.1%
- 71st pct
- Shot attempts
- 51.3%
- 69th 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: 56 for, 49 against. Expected: 54.2 and 49.8.
The eye and the numbers
SightedThe numbers rank him 27 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 27 points from the numbers; this one lands 27. 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 — 71 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
- 20.9 mph
- 25th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.11 a game
- Distance
- 2.79 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 94.7 mph
- 77th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.6
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
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
6
points in his last 10 games — 1 goals, 5 assists, 14 shots
Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.
Usual linemates
2025-26 · 1402 minutes at five-on-five
- Tyler Kleven11%
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
- OTT took 54.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 52.1% — 2.8 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- First pair, 1,402 minutes at five-on-five — 93rd percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jake Sanderson | 54.4% | 48.2% | 60.3% |
| Michael Amadio | 49.4% | 54.0% | 54.9% |
| Shane Pinto | 52.9% | 51.7% | 54.7% |
54.4% together, 48.2% for him apart and 60.3% for Sanderson apart. He was the one being carried: the share went with Sanderson and did not follow 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
148 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 5 of them goals. His median goal came from 31 feet. 3% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 82% from beyond forty.