Blake Coleman

2 Stanley Cups, a relentless motor, and a 20-goal season at 34.

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

2016-17	NJD	23	1	1	2	-7	27	0	0	0	29	3.5	12:51
2017-18	NJD	79	13	12	25	+7	50	0	3	2	146	8.9	14:24
2018-19	NJD	78	22	14	36	-19	71	3	3	3	213	10.3	17:01
2019-20	NJD/TBL	66	21	11	32	0	56	1	3	2	200	10.5	16:43
2020-21	TBL	55	14	17	31	+15	37	1	1	3	122	11.5	15:28
2021-22	CGY	81	16	17	33	+16	60	0	1	2	212	7.5	14:49
2022-23	CGY	82	18	20	38	+9	54	0	2	2	188	9.6	15:12
2023-24	CGY	78	30	24	54	+19	76	3	4	7	191	15.7	17:08
2024-25	CGY	82	15	24	39	-2	36	4	1	4	194	7.7	17:41
2025-26	CGY	69	20	15	35	+12	49	0	4	3	176	11.4	17:20
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	693	170	155	325	+50	516	12	22	28	1671	10.2	16:05

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

20 goals and 35 points in 69 games, plus-12, 17 minutes a night, no power-play goals. Scoring 20 without a man-advantage role is a harder thing than the number looks.

The Finesse Game

Not a skilled player in the usual sense and never claimed to be. The goals come from the net front, from shorthanded breakaways, and from arriving at a rebound before the defenceman does. He shoots often and from close range, which is the honest way to score 20 with these hands.

The speed is his real offensive weapon. He is a genuine threat on the penalty kill because he forces defencemen into decisions, and he has scored important shorthanded goals in playoff games for 2 different clubs.

The Physical Game

5-11 and 199, and he plays a full-contact game every shift. He forechecks hard, blocks shots, and finishes checks on players considerably larger. Nothing about his style has softened with age, which is both the appeal and the risk.

The Intangibles

He is exactly the player teams want in a playoff series: heavy, fast, defensively trustworthy, and completely indifferent to being popular. He has won with 2 organisations and been the same player in both.

At 34, with a game built on legs and willingness, the decline when it comes will be quick rather than gradual. There is no sign of it yet.

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.

drives-play· the shot clock turns his way while he is out there
51.5% of the expected goals at five-on-five with him on, 45.8% for his club in the minutes he sat: +5.7, 93rd percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats moderately (0.39) · 29% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 937 minutes

Expected goals: 51.5%; 68th pct
Shot attempts: 51.8%; 73rd pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 41 for, 37 against. Expected: 37.1 and 34.9.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

95th

Numbers

68th

The report ranks him 27 points above where the numbers do. It was written with these numbers on screen and departs from them anyway, which makes the gap a judgment rather than an oversight. Why the numbers land there sets out the club he did it on, the minutes he played and the men he played them with.

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 — 82 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 · 69 games

Top speed: 22.5 mph; 65th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 1.25 a game
Distance: 2.85 miles a game
Hardest shot: 88.7 mph; 75th 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 — 4 goals, 2 assists, 33 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 with CGY · 937 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: CGY took 47.0% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 51.5% — 4.5 above the club he did it on.
The role: First line, 937 minutes at five-on-five — 53rd percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Mikael Backlund	50.6%	55.4%	40.9%
Kevin Bahl	50.2%	52.5%	42.4%
Rasmus Andersson	49.1%	52.5%	49.7%

50.6% together, 55.4% for him apart and 40.9% for Backlund apart. He was carrying it: the share stayed with him and left Backlund behind.

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

233 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 20 of them goals. His median goal came from 16 feet. 50% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 18% from beyond forty.