Armchair Hockey Scout Beta

This is the 2025-26 edition — an archived read. Read the 2026-27 report →

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Brandon Duhaime

Washington Capitals Right Wing

Ninety-eight penalty minutes in 82 games, and 332 in 293 career games.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2021-22MIN8061117-2122001916.610:13
2022-23MIN519110+6420138011.310:45
2023-24MIN/COL805813-570010925.410:52
2024-25WSH8291221+3980018310.813:21
2025-26 so far
Career293293261+23320253468.411:22

This Season So Far

The 2025-26 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

9 goals and 12 assists in 82 games — 21 points at 13:21 a night, plus-3, with a game-winner on 83 shots, and 98 penalty minutes.

50.9 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 62nd percentile. His ice went 64-41 against an expectation of 33.84-32.62, which is a fourth line that came out enormously ahead of its chances at both ends.

The Finesse Game

83 attempts at a median of 28 feet with 40 per cent from inside 20 and 27 per cent from beyond 40, converting at 10.8 per cent for a career-high 9 goals.

12 assists. 61 points in 293 career games is the offensive record and it is not the job.

The Physical Game

6-2 and 210 and he hits everything. He forechecks first and hardest, he finishes every check available to him, and he fights.

98 penalty minutes in 82 games, and 332 in 293 career games. He crosses the line, he answers everything, and along with Tom Wilson he is why this club is difficult to play against.

The Intangibles

A fourth-round pick of Minnesota in 2016 — 106th overall — out of Providence, and 293 games across three organisations.

He is 28 and from Coral Springs, Florida. He has scored 29 goals in his career and taken 332 penalty minutes, which is a fourth-line job description written as a ratio.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 871 minutes

Expected goals
50.9%
62nd pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
49.4%
45th pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 64 for, 41 against. Expected: 33.8 and 32.6.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight
Report
49th
Numbers
62nd

The two rank him within 13 points of one another. It was written for a back edition, with the seasons that followed already known. Neither the agreement nor the gap says anything about the eye, and this report is excluded from the club-level comparison for the same reason.

Both bars are percentiles among the 637 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 72 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.

Usual linemates

2024-25 · 871 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, 2024-25

The club
WSH took 50.8% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 50.9% — 0.1 above the club he did it on.
The role
Third line, 871 minutes at five-on-five — 42nd percentile in ice time.

With and without

TeammateTogetherHim apartMate apart
Nic Dowd50.7%52.8%53.9%
Taylor Raddysh50.7%51.1%54.2%
Martin Fehérváry57.5%47.1%51.4%

50.7% together, 52.8% for him apart and 53.9% for Dowd apart. Dowd 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

136 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 9 of them goals. His median goal came from 14 feet. 40% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 27% from beyond forty.