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Berkly Catton
Seattle Kraken Center #27
20 years old, 5-10, and 47 per cent of his shots from inside 20 feet.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | SEA | 66 | 7 | 10 | 17 | -8 | 31 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 78 | 9.0 | 12:56 |
| 2026-27 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 66 | 7 | 10 | 17 | -8 | 31 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 78 | 9.0 | 12:56 |
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
7 goals and 10 assists in 66 games — 17 points, minus-8, at 12:56 a night with 31 penalty minutes. His first professional season.
He turned 20 in January.
The Finesse Game
The skating is the tool and it is a very good one — he separates through the neutral zone and changes pace with the puck on his stick, which is rare at this age.
132 unblocked attempts, 8 goals, median 22 feet with 47 per cent from inside 20. That is a 20-year-old already taking his shots from the right places; 7 goals is what happens when he gets there without the strength to finish.
10 assists in 13 minutes a night is a fair rate.
The Physical Game
5-10 and 179 pounds, and it is the whole reservation. 31 penalty minutes in 66 games is actually high for his size and says something about how he plays.
He is knocked off pucks by men, loses the wall, and cannot hold the front of a net. 2 summers of weight is the standard answer and he has had one.
The Intangibles
48.8 per cent of the expected goals, 44th percentile, and 47.0 per cent of the shot attempts, 26th, across 789 minutes.
That is level chance share for a 20-year-old on a club that was badly outchanced, and it is the number to hold on to.
5 points in his last 10. He is 20, the eighth pick in 2024, and Seattle has him arriving alongside Wright, Beniers, Evans and Winterton. The problem is not the young players.
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.
- sheltered· is started in the attacking end
71% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 99th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 47% keep it
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 789 minutes
- Expected goals
- 48.8%
- 45th pct
- Shot attempts
- 47%
- 27th 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: 27 for, 31 against. Expected: 31.2 and 32.7.
The eye and the numbers
SightedThe two rank him within 16 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 — 74 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 · 66 games
- Top speed
- 22.9 mph
- 82nd pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 2.11 a game
- Distance
- 2.20 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 83.7 mph
- 42nd 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
5
points in his last 10 games — 2 goals, 3 assists, 16 shots
Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.
Usual linemates
2025-26 · 789 minutes at five-on-five
- Shane Wright48%
- Kaapo Kakko21%
- Eeli Tolvanennow NYR19%
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
- SEA took 46.0% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 48.8% — 2.8 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third line, 789 minutes at five-on-five — 37th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shane Wright | 51.0% | 46.9% | 49.5% |
| Ryker Evans | 51.4% | 47.4% | 47.6% |
| Brandon Montour | 49.7% | 48.3% | 47.3% |
51.0% together, 46.9% for him apart and 49.5% for Wright apart. He was worse away from Wright, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Wright did.
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
132 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 8 of them goals. His median goal came from 10 feet. 47% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 15% from beyond forty.