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Bobby Brink
Philadelphia Flyers Right Wing
Five-foot-eight and 169 pounds, and 41 points with 45 per cent of his attempts from inside 20 feet.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | PHI | 10 | 0 | 4 | 4 | -5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 0.0 | 15:27 |
| 2023-24 | PHI | 57 | 11 | 12 | 23 | +1 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 81 | 13.6 | 13:48 |
| 2024-25 | PHI | 79 | 12 | 29 | 41 | -11 | 22 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 105 | 11.4 | 14:50 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 146 | 23 | 45 | 68 | -15 | 32 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 204 | 11.3 | 14:28 |
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
12 goals and 29 assists in 79 games — 41 points at 14:50 a night, minus-11, on 22 penalty minutes.
53.3 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 75th percentile. His ice went 40-48 against an expectation of 38.36-33.65 — thirteen goals conceded above expectation on a third line whose chance suppression was good.
The Finesse Game
105 attempts at a median of 23 feet with 45 per cent from inside 20, converting at 11.4 per cent. For a player this size, that shot profile is the interesting thing about him — he gets to the middle and he does not get pushed out of it.
29 assists in 79 games from a third line is the real skill. He holds the puck longer than he should be able to, he waits for a passing lane to open rather than forcing one, and the hands in traffic are excellent.
The Physical Game
5-8 and 169 pounds and among the smallest players in the league. He is not going to win a puck against a defenceman and he does not attempt to; he retrieves, he escapes, and he passes.
22 penalty minutes in 79 games. He takes a great deal of punishment in the areas he insists on playing in and he does not answer any of it.
The Intangibles
A second-round pick in 2019 who spent two full seasons in the American League after college and did not become a regular until he was 23.
146 NHL games and 68 points. He is 24, and on a club that scored 238 goals a small winger who produces 41 points on a third line at 14 minutes a night is worth considerably more ice than he got.
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
79 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
“**29 assists in 79 games from a third line is the real skill.**”
“he gets to the middle and he does not get pushed out of it.”
“He is not going to win a puck against a defenceman and he does not attempt to; he retrieves, he escapes, and he passes.”
“He takes a great deal of punishment in the areas he insists on playing in and he does not answer any of it.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 963 minutes
- Expected goals
- 53.3%
- 80th pct
- Shot attempts
- 48%
- 34th 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: 40 for, 48 against. Expected: 38.4 and 33.6.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 38 points above where the report does. 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. 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 637 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 71 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 · 79 games
- Top speed
- 22.5 mph
- 62nd pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.24 a game
- Distance
- 2.49 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 88.3 mph
- 69th 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 83.9
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 · 963 minutes at five-on-five
- Noah Cates62%
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
- PHI took 52.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 53.3% — 1.2 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Second line, 963 minutes at five-on-five — 56th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tyson Foerster | 55.3% | 49.1% | 50.3% |
| Noah Cates | 56.4% | 47.7% | 43.2% |
| Travis Sanheim | 50.8% | 55.6% | 54.4% |
55.3% together, 49.1% for him apart and 50.3% for Foerster apart. Both were worse apart, so whatever the two of them had together was doing real work.
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
155 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 13 of them goals. His median goal came from 12 feet. 45% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 22% from beyond forty.