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Brandon Duhaime
Washington Capitals Right Wing
Ninety-eight penalty minutes in 82 games, and 332 in 293 career games.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | MIN | 80 | 6 | 11 | 17 | -2 | 122 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 91 | 6.6 | 10:13 |
| 2022-23 | MIN | 51 | 9 | 1 | 10 | +6 | 42 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 80 | 11.3 | 10:45 |
| 2023-24 | MIN/COL | 80 | 5 | 8 | 13 | -5 | 70 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 92 | 5.4 | 10:52 |
| 2024-25 | WSH | 82 | 9 | 12 | 21 | +3 | 98 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 83 | 10.8 | 13:21 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 293 | 29 | 32 | 61 | +2 | 332 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 346 | 8.4 | 11:22 |
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.
49.2 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 62nd percentile. His ice went 28-29 against an expectation of 30.57-31.52, 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.
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
- a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed
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
15% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 0th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
“**6-2 and 210 and he hits everything.** He forechecks first and hardest, he finishes every check available to him, and he fights.”
“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.”
“He crosses the line, he answers everything, and along with Tom Wilson he is why this club is difficult to play against.”
“He crosses the line, he answers everything, and along with Tom Wilson he is why this club is difficult to play against.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 871 minutes
- Expected goals
- 49.2%
- 46th pct
- Shot attempts
- 48.9%
- 42nd 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: 28 for, 29 against. Expected: 30.6 and 31.5.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 3 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.
Tracked
NHL Edge, 2024-25 · 82 games
- Top speed
- 23.1 mph
- 86th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 2.06 a game
- Distance
- 2.02 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 86.0 mph
- 51st 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 83.9
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.
Usual linemates
2024-25 · 871 minutes at five-on-five
- Nic Dowd88%
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 49.2% — 1.6 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third line, 871 minutes at five-on-five — 42nd percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nic Dowd | 49.5% | 47.3% | 54.4% |
| Taylor Raddysh | 48.2% | 50.0% | 53.8% |
| Martin Fehérváry | 56.2% | 45.3% | 50.4% |
49.5% together, 47.3% for him apart and 54.4% 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.