Brad Marchand

5-9, 38 years old, 1,034 points.

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

2009-10	BOS	20	0	1	1	-3	20	0	0	0	32	0.0	11:58
2010-11	BOS	77	21	20	41	+25	51	2	5	2	149	14.1	13:59
2011-12	BOS	76	28	27	55	+31	87	5	1	3	167	16.8	17:37
2012-13	BOS	45	18	18	36	+23	27	4	2	5	91	19.8	16:58
2013-14	BOS	82	25	28	53	+36	64	1	5	5	149	16.8	15:57
2014-15	BOS	77	24	18	42	+5	95	2	2	5	180	13.3	16:54
2015-16	BOS	77	37	24	61	+21	90	6	4	6	250	14.8	18:36
2016-17	BOS	80	39	46	85	+18	81	9	3	8	226	17.3	19:26
2017-18	BOS	68	34	51	85	+25	63	8	1	8	182	18.7	19:43
2018-19	BOS	79	36	64	100	+15	96	10	3	9	231	15.6	19:37
2019-20	BOS	70	28	59	87	+25	82	5	1	5	185	15.1	19:27
2020-21	BOS	53	29	40	69	+26	46	4	4	5	143	20.3	18:55
2021-22	BOS	70	32	48	80	+16	97	7	2	6	242	13.2	19:15
2022-23	BOS	73	21	46	67	+27	74	9	0	4	183	11.5	18:32
2023-24	BOS	82	29	38	67	+2	78	7	3	6	207	14.0	19:06
2024-25	BOS/FLA	71	23	28	51	-7	64	5	0	5	194	11.9	18:19
2025-26	FLA	52	27	27	54	-16	38	6	0	3	138	19.6	17:44
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	1152	451	583	1034	+269	1153	90	36	85	2949	15.3	18:01

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

27 goals and 27 assists in 52 games — 54 points, minus-16, at 17:44 a night. His seventeenth NHL season, and his 1,034th career point.

The Finesse Game

27 goals in 52 games at 37 years old is the headline and the release is why: 213 unblocked attempts, 28 goals, median distance 28 feet with 38 per cent from inside 20.

He shoots from further out than the men around him and converts at a higher rate, which is what a genuinely elite shot buys you when the legs start to go. The hands in tight have not moved at all.

The Physical Game

5-9 and 180 pounds, and one of the most physically irritating players of the past 2 decades. 38 penalty minutes in 52 games, and every one of them chosen.

He is not strong. He is relentless, and he has spent 17 seasons making men who outweigh him by 50 pounds lose their tempers.

The Intangibles

The 5-on-5 numbers were the weakest of his career — 47.6 per cent of the expected goals, 33rd percentile, in 633 minutes — and he is 38 in May.

451 goals, 1,034 points, a Stanley Cup in Boston and another in Florida, and a third-round pick in 2006 who was told his whole life he was too small.

6 points in his last 10. The end is somewhere in the next 2 seasons and nobody is going to see it coming until it has happened.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 633 minutes

Expected goals: 47.6%; 33rd pct
Shot attempts: 50%; 57th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 33 for, 40 against. Expected: 30.5 and 33.5.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

97th

Numbers

33rd

The report ranks him 64 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 — 83 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 · 52 games

Top speed: 22.4 mph; 59th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 2.00 a game
Distance: 2.91 miles a game
Hardest shot: 83.9 mph; 43rd 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 — 3 goals, 3 assists, 18 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 633 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: FLA took 50.4% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 47.6% — 2.8 below the club he did it on.
The role: 633 minutes at five-on-five — 26th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Anton Lundell	48.0%	47.3%	51.8%
Sam Bennett	48.3%	47.0%	51.8%
Carter Verhaeghe	47.9%	47.4%	53.2%

48.0% together, 47.3% for him apart and 51.8% for Lundell apart. Lundell 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

213 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 28 of them goals. His median goal came from 13 feet. 38% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 25% from beyond forty.