Ben Chiarot

1,500 minutes, and the 9th percentile in every one of them.

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

2013-14	WPG	1	0	0	0	-3	0	0	0	0	0	—	10:47
2014-15	WPG	40	2	6	8	+5	22	0	0	0	37	5.4	17:01
2015-16	WPG	70	1	9	10	-9	43	0	0	0	74	1.4	14:27
2016-17	WPG	59	2	10	12	+2	33	0	0	0	49	4.1	15:19
2017-18	WPG	57	2	12	14	+15	32	0	0	0	57	3.5	15:17
2018-19	WPG	78	5	15	20	+6	62	0	0	1	111	4.5	18:37
2019-20	MTL	69	9	12	21	+5	61	0	0	3	130	6.9	23:08
2020-21	MTL	41	1	6	7	-16	50	1	0	0	81	1.2	21:47
2021-22	MTL/FLA	74	9	17	26	-14	48	2	0	1	143	6.3	22:51
2022-23	DET	76	5	14	19	-31	51	0	0	0	110	4.5	20:36
2023-24	DET	77	5	15	20	-4	56	0	0	1	107	4.7	19:47
2024-25	DET	81	4	9	13	-14	69	0	0	0	109	3.7	21:14
2025-26	DET	82	5	10	15	-9	75	0	0	0	103	4.9	20:50
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	805	50	135	185	-67	602	3	0	6	1111	4.5	19:25

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 10 assists in all 82 games — 15 points, minus-9, at 20:50 a night with 75 penalty minutes and 1,499 5-on-5 minutes, second-most on the club.

The Finesse Game

There is none. 155 unblocked attempts from a median of 55 feet, 6 per cent from inside 20, 5 goals. 50 goals in 805 career games.

10 assists in 82 games at 21 minutes a night is close to the lowest offensive return in this edition for that workload.

The Physical Game

6-3, 222, and it is the entire proposition. 75 penalty minutes, a genuine willingness to fight, and he clears the front of the net.

The skating went years ago. When he is beaten he stays beaten, and forwards have worked out that changing direction is enough.

The Intangibles

43.1 per cent of the expected goals — 9th percentile — with the expected goals running 55.8 to 73.6 against across 1,500 minutes. That is a 16-goal deficit in chances alone, before any luck is applied.

He is 35, in his thirteenth season, and playing the second-most 5-on-5 minutes on a club trying to make the playoffs. Detroit’s blue line is Seider at the 86th percentile, Edvinsson at the 74th, and then Chiarot at the ninth playing nearly as much as either.

3 points in his last 10. Nothing on this page is ambiguous and the ice time is the club’s decision, not his.

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

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1,499 minutes

Expected goals: 43.1%; 8th pct
Shot attempts: 46.2%; 21st pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 50 for, 67 against. Expected: 55.8 and 73.6.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

4th

Numbers

8th

Blind

15th

The two rank him within 4 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.

The same player was graded a second time from his biography and his box score alone, with the measured record withheld. That reading lands 7 points from the numbers; this one lands 4. 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 — 61 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: 21.9 mph; 58th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.43 a game
Distance: 2.93 miles a game
Hardest shot: 93.4 mph; 69th 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 — 0 goals, 3 assists, 13 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 1499 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: DET took 48.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 43.1% — 5.1 below the club he did it on.
The role: Second pair, 1,499 minutes at five-on-five — 97th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Axel Sandin-Pellikka	43.2%	43.0%	48.3%
Alex DeBrincat	46.4%	41.7%	55.4%
Emmitt Finnie	44.1%	42.7%	52.6%

43.2% together, 43.0% for him apart and 48.3% for Sandin-Pellikka apart. Sandin-Pellikka was better away from him while his own share held, which is a mark against him more 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

155 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 5 of them goals. His median goal came from 52 feet. 6% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 78% from beyond forty.