Brandon Montour

22 and a half minutes a night, and minus 21.

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

2016-17	ANA	27	2	4	6	+11	14	0	0	0	50	4.0	17:23
2017-18	ANA	80	9	23	32	+16	42	5	1	5	160	5.6	20:28
2018-19	ANA/BUF	82	8	27	35	-20	56	1	0	2	181	4.4	22:27
2019-20	BUF	54	5	13	18	+13	28	0	0	0	86	5.8	19:30
2020-21	BUF/FLA	50	7	11	18	-5	40	0	2	0	94	7.4	20:29
2021-22	FLA	81	11	26	37	+15	48	1	0	1	153	7.2	17:54
2022-23	FLA	80	16	57	73	+9	107	3	0	5	242	6.6	24:08
2023-24	FLA	66	8	25	33	+1	46	1	0	3	168	4.8	23:27
2024-25	SEA	81	18	23	41	-22	70	5	0	4	231	7.8	22:59
2025-26	SEA	64	11	21	32	-21	45	2	0	3	174	6.3	22:34
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	665	95	230	325	-3	496	18	3	23	1539	6.2	21:26

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

11 goals and 21 assists in 64 games — 32 points, minus-21, at 22:34 a night with 45 penalty minutes. 18 games missed.

The Finesse Game

The skating is genuinely excellent — he activates off the blue line as well as any defenceman in the league and he is difficult to forecheck.

The shot is volume from distance: 253 unblocked attempts, median 49 feet, 68 per cent from beyond 40, 11 goals. 325 points in 665 career games.

21 assists in 64 games is a fair return and rather less than he was signed to produce.

The Physical Game

6 foot even, 199, and light for the ice he takes. 45 penalty minutes.

He defends by skating rather than by stopping people, and against a heavy forecheck in his own end that runs out of answers.

The Intangibles

47.9 per cent of the expected goals, 35th percentile, and 48.2 per cent of the shot attempts, 38th, across 1,234 minutes.

Those are the best chance-share figures among Seattle’s 4 busiest defencemen, and the minus-21 sits on top of them — the goals went 36-49 against an expected 48.4 to 52.7.

That gap is Seattle’s problem in one line: the club finished 153 goals scored against an expected 150.4, so it is not that they missed their chances. It is that they never had enough of them.

1 point in his last 10. He is 32, won a Cup in Florida, and is being paid to be the offensive engine of a blue line that spends its evenings in its own zone.

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.

workhorse· carries the load at even strength
19:17 a game at five-on-five, 94th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.78) · 58% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1,234 minutes

Expected goals: 47.9%; 36th pct
Shot attempts: 48.2%; 38th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 36 for, 49 against. Expected: 48.4 and 52.7.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

61st

Numbers

36th

The report ranks him 25 points above where the numbers do. It was written with these numbers on screen and departs from them anyway, which makes the gap a judgment rather than an oversight. Why the numbers land there sets out the club he did it on, the minutes he played and the men he played them with.

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 — 74 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 · 64 games

Top speed: 22.7 mph; 88th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 1.44 a game
Distance: 3.41 miles a game
Hardest shot: 101.6 mph; 98th 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 — 1 goals, 0 assists, 32 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 1234 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: SEA took 46.0% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 47.9% — 1.9 above the club he did it on.
The role: Second pair, 1,234 minutes at five-on-five — 85th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Ryan Lindgren	45.4%	50.3%	41.6%
Jordan Eberle	50.9%	46.4%	46.6%
Matty Beniers	49.5%	47.2%	46.0%

45.4% together, 50.3% for him apart and 41.6% for Lindgren apart. He was carrying it: the share stayed with him and left Lindgren behind.

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

253 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 11 of them goals. His median goal came from 42 feet. 9% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 68% from beyond forty.