Photo by Daniel Sanford, CC BY-SA 4.0
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | PIT | 77 | 17 | 18 | 35 | -5 | 18 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 151 | 11.3 | 15:04 |
| 2026-27 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 77 | 17 | 18 | 35 | -5 | 18 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 151 | 11.3 | 15:04 |
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
17 goals and 18 assists in 77 games — 35 points, minus-5, at 15:04 a night with 4 power-play goals. His first professional season.
He was born in April 2007.
The Finesse Game
Clever rather than fast, and the reads are what got him drafted 11th overall. He arrives where the puck is about to be and releases it before the check does.
212 unblocked attempts, 19 goals, median 26 feet with 39 per cent from inside 20. That conversion is good and the location should tighten as he gets stronger.
18 assists at 19 in 15 minutes a night is a real rate.
The Physical Game
5-11 and 182 pounds, and he is a teenager. 18 penalty minutes. He is moved off pucks by grown men and will be until 2 summers have passed.
The Intangibles
53.1 per cent of the expected goals, 78th percentile, and 52.6 per cent of the shot attempts, 79th, across 940 minutes — with the chances 42.6 to 37.6 in his favour.
That is a genuinely strong underlying season for a 19-year-old, and unlike Schaefer in New York he was not being asked to carry the club to get it.
He is 19, and Pittsburgh has him arriving exactly as Crosby, Malkin and Letang reach the end. 4 points in his last 10.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 940 minutes
- Expected goals
- 53.1%
- 78th pct
- Shot attempts
- 52.3%
- 76th 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: 39 for, 39 against. Expected: 42.6 and 37.6.
The eye and the numbers
SightedThe two rank him within 11 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.
Both 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 — 75 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 · 77 games
- Top speed
- 22.5 mph
- 66th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.64 a game
- Distance
- 2.50 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 89.4 mph
- 81st 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 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first
4
points in his last 10 games — 1 goals, 3 assists, 21 shots
Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.
Usual linemates
2025-26 · 940 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
- PIT took 51.8% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 53.1% — 1.3 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Second line, 940 minutes at five-on-five — 53rd percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kris Letang | 51.2% | 54.0% | 49.8% |
| Ryan Shea | 55.1% | 52.1% | 51.5% |
| Justin Brazeau | 53.2% | 53.0% | 51.1% |
51.2% together, 54.0% for him apart and 49.8% for Letang apart. Splitting them up moved neither man. Whatever is driving the share, it is not this pairing.
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
212 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 19 of them goals. His median goal came from 19 feet. 40% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 18% from beyond forty.