Brad Lambert
Winnipeg Jets Center #93
A first-round pick with dazzling feet, 25 NHL games and a great deal still to prove.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-24 | WPG | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.0 | 13:51 |
| 2024-25 | WPG | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 | 11:36 |
| 2025-26 | WPG | 25 | 3 | 3 | 6 | -5 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 11.1 | 10:48 |
| 2026-27 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 31 | 3 | 5 | 8 | -4 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 10.0 | 11:02 |
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
3 goals and 6 points in 25 games on under 11 minutes a night. 31 career games, 8 points.
The Finesse Game
The skating is exceptional and always has been — it is why he was in the conversation for the top 5 picks before he slid to thirtieth. He is fast in every direction, changes pace mid-stride, and can beat NHL defencemen wide on pure speed, which very few 22-year-olds can.
The rest is unfinished. The decisions come too slowly at this level, he loses pucks trying to make one more move, and 27 shots in 25 games is a modest rate for a player with his tools.
The Physical Game
6-1 and 173, which is light, and it shows in every board battle. He is not physically ready for a regular NHL role and that is the most straightforward thing standing in his way.
The Intangibles
He slid in his draft year on questions about consistency and application rather than talent, and those questions have not yet been settled either way.
At 22, with a tool this rare, he will get more chances than most. The sample is 31 games and nothing about it should be read as conclusive in either direction.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 244 minutes
- Expected goals
- 43.6%
- 9th pct
- Shot attempts
- 46.8%
- 25th 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: 6 for, 11 against. Expected: 8.0 and 10.4.
The eye and the numbers
SightedThe report ranks him 35 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 — 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, 2025-26 · 25 games
- Top speed
- 22.6 mph
- 69th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 2.40 a game
- Distance
- 1.85 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 73.8 mph
- 8th 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 18 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first
1
points in his last 10 games — 1 goals, 0 assists, 17 shots
Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.
Usual linemates
2025-26 · 244 minutes at five-on-five
- Cole Koepke40%
- Isak Rosen25%
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
- WPG took 47.3% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 43.6% — 3.7 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- 244 minutes at five-on-five — 2nd percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Morgan Barron | 43.3% | 43.9% | 47.1% |
| Cole Koepke | 41.8% | 45.0% | 43.8% |
| Haydn Fleury | 38.6% | 45.6% | 37.6% |
43.3% together, 43.9% for him apart and 47.1% for Barron apart. Barron was better away from him while his own share held, which is a mark against him more than for 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
38 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 3 of them goals. His median goal came from 29 feet. 45% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 16% from beyond forty.