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Ben Chiarot
Detroit Red Wings Defense
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.
45 per cent at five-on-five, the 15th percentile, over 1,449 minutes — the second-most on the club. His on-ice goals were 62-64 against an expected 53-65, which is 12 goals of goaltending covering 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 27th, 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.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,449 minutes
- Expected goals
- 45%
- 15th pct
- Shot attempts
- 44.3%
- 9th 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: 62 for, 64 against. Expected: 53.2 and 65.1.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 1 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 357 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.
Usual linemates
2024-25 · 1449 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, 2024-25
- The club
- DET took 48.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 45.0% — 3.2 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 | 47.2% | 41.7% | 51.2% |
| Dylan Larkin | 51.2% | 41.9% | 51.5% |
| Lucas Raymond | 50.7% | 42.1% | 53.8% |
47.2% together, 41.7% for him apart and 51.2% 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.