Braeden Bowman
Vegas Golden Knights Right Wing
Undrafted, 66 per cent of his shots from inside 20 feet, and the 88th percentile.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | VGK | 54 | 8 | 18 | 26 | -16 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 75 | 10.7 | 14:08 |
| 2026-27 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 54 | 8 | 18 | 26 | -16 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 75 | 10.7 | 14:08 |
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
8 goals and 18 assists in 54 games — 26 points, minus-16, at 14:08 a night with only 12 penalty minutes. His first professional season, at 22.
The Finesse Game
The shot chart is remarkable for a first-year player. 116 unblocked attempts with 66 per cent from inside 20 feet and a median of 13, and only 7 per cent from beyond 40 — one of the 6 closest charts of any forward in the league.
8 goals out of it is a poor conversion, which is a strength problem rather than a positioning one and the positioning is the part that takes years.
18 assists in 54 games is a genuinely good rate.
The Physical Game
6-1, 205, and solidly built for a rookie. 12 penalty minutes.
He goes to the interior and holds his ground better than a 22-year-old usually can. The skating is fair rather than quick.
The Intangibles
52.5 per cent of the expected goals, 74th percentile, and 50.5 per cent of the shot attempts, 63rd, across 692 minutes, with the chances 29.5 to 26.7 in his favour and the goals 33-46.
The minus-16 sitting on top of that is a special-teams number and nothing else.
3 points in his last 10. He is 23, undrafted, and the most interesting young player on a roster that has almost none.
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.
- slot-man· shoots from where goals are scored
71.6% of his attempts in the slot, 97th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.69) · 44% keep it
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 692 minutes
- Expected goals
- 52.5%
- 74th pct
- Shot attempts
- 49.6%
- 53rd 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: 33 for, 46 against. Expected: 29.5 and 26.7.
The eye and the numbers
SightedThe two rank him within 7 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 — 75 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 · 54 games
- Top speed
- 21.4 mph
- 18th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.50 a game
- Distance
- 2.14 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 79.2 mph
- 18th 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 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first
3
points in his last 10 games — 0 goals, 3 assists, 19 shots
Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.
Usual linemates
2025-26 · 692 minutes at five-on-five
- Jack Eichel42%
- Brett Howden17%
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
- VGK took 53.4% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 52.5% — 0.9 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- 692 minutes at five-on-five — 30th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivan Barbashev | 51.2% | 53.7% | 57.1% |
| Jack Eichel | 53.6% | 51.6% | 58.3% |
| Noah Hanifin | 55.9% | 50.2% | 54.6% |
51.2% together, 53.7% for him apart and 57.1% for Barbashev apart. Barbashev 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
116 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 8 of them goals. His median goal came from 10 feet. 67% of his shots came from inside twenty feet.