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2026-27 edition Ask a direct question about this edition of the book — who, how many, how common, which group more — and it is answered with a table computed on this page from the edition’s index: the season line, height and age, the on-ice percentiles, the grades and the traits read out of every report. Ask for a view on named players — what a comparison comes down to, what makes a man — and you get the book’s reading of their own pages, and only those. The model turns your question into a query and phrases the result, or reads the pages it is handed; it never originates a figure, and an answer carrying a figure that is on neither the table nor the pages is withheld. It does not forecast, and it says so when a question is outside what the book holds.

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Brandon Duhaime

Photo by Kenneth C. Zirkel, CC BY-SA 4.0

Brandon Duhaime

Toronto Maple Leafs Right Wing #22

375 games, 70 points, and 78 penalty minutes.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2021-22MIN8061117-2122001916.610:13
2022-23MIN519110+6420138011.310:45
2023-24MIN/COL805813-570010925.410:52
2024-25WSH8291221+3980018310.813:21
2025-26WSH82459-278010646.311:04
2026-27 so far—————————————
Career—37533377004100354108.111:18

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

4 goals and 5 assists in all 82 games — 9 points, minus-2, at 11:04 a night with 78 penalty minutes. His 5-on-5 work was done in Washington.

His 375th career game.

The Finesse Game

100 unblocked attempts, 4 goals, median 21 feet with 48 per cent from inside 20. The location is right and there is nothing behind it.

70 points in 375 career games. 5 assists in a full season is among the lowest returns in this edition.

The Physical Game

6-2, 210, and a genuinely aggressive checker — he forechecks hard, finishes everything, and fights. 78 penalty minutes in 11 minutes a night is a high rate.

The speed is real and it is what makes the forechecking work.

The Intangibles

47.5 per cent of the expected goals, 33rd percentile, and 45.9 per cent of the shot attempts, 18th, across 809 minutes in Washington, with the goals 18-23 against.

That margin belongs to Washington’s goaltenders, who finished 29 goals better than the chances they faced — the best in the league.

He is 29, a fourth-round pick, and a fourth-line winger who kills penalties. On this roster that is a real job and 9 points is what it pays.

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

  • hard-minutes· is started in his own end, against the other club's best

    22% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 1st percentile among forwards

    Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 809 minutes

Expected goals
47.5%
33rd pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
45.9%
18th pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 18 for, 23 against. Expected: 27.7 and 30.6.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted
Report
38th
Numbers
33rd

The two rank him within 5 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 — 70 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
23.3 mph
92nd pct

fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.2

Bursts over 20 mph
1.45 a game

how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes

Distance
1.65 miles a game

skated, all strengths

Hardest shot
83.4 mph
40th pct

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

2

points in his last 10 games — 0 goals, 2 assists, 15 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 with WSH · 809 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
WSH took 49.5% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 47.5% — 2.0 below the club he did it on.
The role
Fourth line, 809 minutes at five-on-five — 39th percentile in ice time.

With and without

TeammateTogetherHim apartMate apart
Nic Dowd46.6%48.0%46.0%
Matt Roy42.7%49.9%48.6%
Martin Fehervary51.8%45.4%48.3%

46.6% together, 48.0% for him apart and 46.0% for Dowd apart. Splitting them up moved neither man. Whatever is driving the share, it is not this pairing.

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

100 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 4 of them goals. His median goal came from 14 feet. 48% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 24% from beyond forty.