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Ben Chiarot

13 points, 69 penalty minutes, and a 45 per cent chance share at 34 on the top pair.

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 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	723	45	125	170	-58	527	3	0	6	1008	4.5	19:15

This Season So Far

The 2025-26 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

4 goals and 9 assists in 81 games for 13 points, minus-14, on 21:14 a night.

44.9 per cent at five-on-five, the 16th percentile, over 1,449 minutes — the second-most on the club. His on-ice goals were 50-63 against an expected 52-63, which is a ledger inside two goals of the chances at both ends, in a season in which he was heavily outchanced.

The Finesse Game

There is very little. 109 shots with 77 per cent from beyond 40 feet and 4 goals, and a first pass that is safe when it works and dangerous when it does not.

9 assists in 81 games at 21 minutes a night is one of the lowest offensive returns in this edition. He is not asked to make plays and he should not be.

The Physical Game

6-3 and 222, and this is the whole case. He hits hard, clears his crease, and is one of two men on this blue line who can be trusted in front of his own net.

69 penalty minutes over 81 games is a high total on a club whose penalty kill finished 28th, and that arithmetic is not favourable.

The Intangibles

Twelve seasons, four organisations, a run to a final in Montreal, and a large free-agent contract here that has been criticised throughout.

At 34 with a 15th-percentile chance share and 21 minutes a night, the criticism is fair. He is a third-pair defenceman being used on the first because the club has nobody else who plays that way.

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
a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed
he lacks itraised, and he does not have it

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
punishinga strength· finishes checks; hurts people legally
“He hits hard, clears his crease, and is one of two men on this blue line who can be trusted in front of his own net.”
clears-the-creasea strength· moves grown men off the front of his net
“He hits hard, clears his crease, and is one of two men on this blue line who can be trusted in front of his own net.”
playmakerhe lacks it· passes up the shot a scorer takes
“He is not asked to make plays and he should not be.”
transitionhe lacks it· carries it out; gains the line under control
“a first pass that is safe when it works and dangerous when it does not”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,449 minutes

Expected goals: 44.9%; 16th pct
Shot attempts: 44.3%; 10th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 50 for, 63 against. Expected: 51.7 and 63.5.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

13th

Numbers

16th

The two rank him within 3 points of one another. It was written for a back edition, with the seasons that followed already known. Neither the agreement nor the gap says anything about the eye, and this report is excluded from the club-level comparison for the same reason.

Both bars are percentiles among the 637 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 65 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, 2024-25 · 81 games

Top speed: 22.4 mph; 80th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.37 a game
Distance: 3.04 miles a game
Hardest shot: 95.8 mph; 83rd 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.

Usual linemates

2024-25 · 1449 minutes at five-on-five

Moritz Seider59%
Jeff Petrynow FLA27%

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, 2024-25

The club: DET took 48.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 44.9% — 3.3 below the club he did it on.
The role: First pair, 1,449 minutes at five-on-five — 98th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Moritz Seider	47.6%	41.1%	53.9%
Dylan Larkin	50.6%	42.0%	54.0%
Lucas Raymond	49.7%	42.5%	55.8%

47.6% together, 41.1% for him apart and 53.9% for Seider apart. He was the one being carried: the share went with Seider 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

152 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 4 of them goals. His median goal came from 44 feet. 6% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 77% from beyond forty.