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| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011-12 | BUF | 25 | 1 | 7 | 8 | -1 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 4.3 | 17:50 |
| 2013-14 | BUF | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0.0 | 17:14 |
| 2014-15 | LAK | 71 | 2 | 22 | 24 | +11 | 52 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 74 | 2.7 | 15:54 |
| 2015-16 | LAK | 81 | 2 | 12 | 14 | +11 | 92 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 91 | 2.2 | 18:49 |
| 2016-17 | LAK | 49 | 2 | 2 | 4 | +1 | 54 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 47 | 4.3 | 15:04 |
| 2017-18 | VGK | 76 | 5 | 10 | 15 | +26 | 52 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 88 | 5.7 | 20:09 |
| 2018-19 | VGK | 81 | 4 | 12 | 16 | +11 | 52 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 84 | 4.8 | 19:29 |
| 2019-20 | VGK | 71 | 2 | 7 | 9 | +1 | 40 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 73 | 2.7 | 20:01 |
| 2020-21 | VGK | 41 | 2 | 6 | 8 | +10 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 39 | 5.1 | 19:18 |
| 2021-22 | VGK | 69 | 3 | 15 | 18 | +10 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 85 | 3.5 | 19:42 |
| 2022-23 | VGK | 82 | 1 | 16 | 17 | +17 | 51 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 89 | 1.1 | 19:51 |
| 2023-24 | VGK | 82 | 4 | 22 | 26 | +18 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 86 | 4.7 | 19:21 |
| 2024-25 | VGK | 82 | 5 | 15 | 20 | +42 | 32 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 97 | 5.1 | 20:07 |
| 2025-26 | VGK | 63 | 5 | 7 | 12 | +2 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 81 | 6.2 | 20:31 |
| 2026-27 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 885 | 38 | 153 | 191 | +160 | 567 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 967 | 3.9 | 19:05 |
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
5 goals and 7 assists in 63 games — 12 points, plus-2, at 20:31 a night with 26 penalty minutes. 19 games missed.
His 885th career game.
The Finesse Game
128 unblocked attempts from a median of 52 feet, 66 per cent from beyond 40, 5 goals.
38 goals in 885 career games. 7 assists in 63 games is close to the bottom of this edition and no club has ever asked him for anything else.
The Physical Game
6-4 and 215 pounds, and one of the most consistently punishing defencemen of the last decade — he clears his crease, finishes every check, and blocks a great many shots.
26 penalty minutes at 20 minutes a night is remarkably disciplined for the way he plays.
The Intangibles
54.7 per cent of the expected goals, 86th percentile, and 52.8 per cent of the shot attempts, 80th, across 1,133 minutes, with the chances 49.1 to 40.6 in his favour.
The goals came out 44-43. 9 seasons in Vegas, from the expansion draft to a Stanley Cup, in the same role throughout.
4 points in his last 10. He is 35, a third-round pick, and 19 games missed is the number to watch on a blue line that is otherwise the best part of this club.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1,133 minutes
- Expected goals
- 54.7%
- 86th pct
- Shot attempts
- 52.8%
- 80th 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: 44 for, 43 against. Expected: 49.1 and 40.6.
The eye and the numbers
SightedThe numbers rank him 48 points above where the report does. 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.
The same player was graded a second time from his biography and his box score alone, with the measured record withheld. That reading lands 63 points from the numbers; this one lands 48. Across the whole control the two distances come out the same, which is worth knowing in both directions: the arithmetic on both sides of the sighted reading did not buy it any accuracy, and it did not cost it any either.
All three 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 · 63 games
- Top speed
- 20.5 mph
- 14th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.02 a game
- Distance
- 2.78 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 94.5 mph
- 75th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.6
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 88.9
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.
Recent form
Last 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first
4
points in his last 10 games — 1 goals, 3 assists, 16 shots
Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.
Usual linemates
2025-26 · 1111 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
- VGK took 53.4% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 54.7% — 1.3 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- First pair, 1,133 minutes at five-on-five — 75th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shea Theodore | 56.8% | 48.1% | 54.7% |
| Ivan Barbashev | 50.8% | 57.5% | 58.2% |
| Jack Eichel | 52.4% | 56.1% | 59.6% |
56.8% together, 48.1% for him apart and 54.7% for Theodore apart. He was worse away from Theodore, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Theodore did.
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
128 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 5 of them goals. His median goal came from 33 feet. 9% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 66% from beyond forty.