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Brady Skjei

1,470 minutes, and the 25th percentile in all of them.

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

2015-16	NYR	7	0	0	0	+1	4	0	0	0	6	0.0	17:44
2016-17	NYR	80	5	34	39	+11	42	0	0	0	127	3.9	17:28
2017-18	NYR	82	4	21	25	-27	39	0	1	1	153	2.6	21:02
2018-19	NYR	78	8	17	25	-4	44	0	0	1	126	6.3	21:14
2019-20	NYR/CAR	67	8	16	24	-10	45	0	0	1	139	5.8	20:42
2020-21	CAR	52	3	7	10	+6	30	0	0	1	104	2.9	20:44
2021-22	CAR	82	9	30	39	+22	48	0	0	0	184	4.9	21:09
2022-23	CAR	81	18	20	38	+7	40	4	1	3	188	9.6	21:49
2023-24	CAR	80	13	34	47	+15	40	1	1	2	185	7.0	21:17
2024-25	NSH	82	10	23	33	-24	42	2	0	1	156	6.4	21:53
2025-26	NSH	82	3	23	26	-7	40	0	1	0	111	2.7	22:37
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	773	81	225	306	-10	414	7	4	10	1479	5.5	20:59

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 23 assists in all 82 games — 26 points, minus-7, at 22:37 a night with 1,470 5-on-5 minutes, the most on the club.

The Finesse Game

Thin for the ice time. 170 unblocked attempts from a median of 51 feet, 5 per cent inside 20, 3 goals.

23 assists from 22 minutes a night is a low return, and 306 points in 773 career games is the honest career rate. He moves the puck to the next man rather than through a layer.

The Physical Game

6-3, 210, and the skating is genuinely good for the size — he retrieves under pressure and can carry when the outlet is not there. 40 penalty minutes.

In front of his own net he is adequate rather than dominant, which for a defenceman this big is the persistent criticism.

The Intangibles

47.5 per cent of the expected goals, 33rd percentile, and 47.9 per cent of the shot attempts, 35th, with the chances 58.1 to 64.3 against across 1,500 minutes.

That is the most minutes on the club being played below the line, and Nashville finished 26th in even-strength expected goals against. Those 2 facts are connected.

He is 32, a first-round pick, and paid as a top-pair defenceman. The skating says he should be better than this; 11 seasons say he probably is not.

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.

durable· was available
82 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1,470 minutes

Expected goals: 47.5%; 33rd pct
Shot attempts: 47.9%; 35th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 59 for, 63 against. Expected: 58.1 and 64.3.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

23rd

Numbers

33rd

The two rank him within 10 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 — 67 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 · 82 games

Top speed: 23.4 mph; 97th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.79 a game
Distance: 3.07 miles a game
Hardest shot: 89.7 mph; 46th 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 — 2 goals, 3 assists, 14 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 1470 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: NSH took 47.8% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 47.5% — 0.3 below the club he did it on.
The role: First pair, 1,470 minutes at five-on-five — 96th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Ryan O'Reilly	50.6%	45.3%	49.9%
Luke Evangelista	53.8%	43.9%	53.4%
Roman Josi	48.5%	46.8%	48.0%

50.6% together, 45.3% for him apart and 49.9% for O'Reilly apart. He was worse away from O'Reilly, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than O'Reilly 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

170 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 3 of them goals. His median goal came from 63 feet. 5% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 69% from beyond forty.