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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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Brayden Schenn

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Brayden Schenn

New York Islanders Center #10

1,102 games, and a minus-28.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2009-10LAK1000-100000—12:31
2010-11LAK8022-10000110.011:15
2011-12PHI5412618-7344039712.414:07
2012-13PHI4781826-8242007910.115:32
2013-14PHI8220214105440617811.215:45
2014-15PHI82182947-53470615611.517:05
2015-16PHI80263359+333110517814.616:54
2016-17PHI79253055-1338170717814.017:48
2017-18STL82284270+105680821013.319:44
2018-19STL72173754+34040515910.718:35
2019-20STL71253358+344100413818.118:28
2020-21STL56162036-23560211314.219:09
2021-22STL62243458+213370311121.617:47
2022-23STL82214465-275060314414.618:26
2023-24STL82202646-225641317011.817:47
2024-25STL82183250+36120514512.417:34
2025-26STL/NYI80182139-286840211915.116:46
2026-27 so far—————————————
Career—1102296428724-7166096162218613.517:28

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

18 goals and 21 assists in 80 games — 39 points, minus-28, at 16:46 a night with 68 penalty minutes. His 5-on-5 work was done in St Louis. His 1,102nd career game.

The Finesse Game

The shot location is still right: 185 unblocked attempts with 43 per cent from inside 20 feet, median 23, and 18 goals.

296 goals in 1,102 games is a genuine career, most of it as a second-line centre who could be trusted with anything. 21 assists is well under his usual rate.

The Physical Game

6-1, 200, and he plays a heavy, agitating game that has not softened at 35. 68 penalty minutes, a willingness to fight, and the sort of forecheck that makes a defenceman rush a pass.

The Intangibles

The minus-28 is one of the worst figures in this book and the underlying numbers do not support it: 49.3 per cent of the expected goals, 51st percentile, with the chances essentially level at 44.4 and 45.7.

That is a full 10-goal gap between what the chances predicted and what happened, on a St Louis club that had its own problems.

7 points in his last 10, 4 of them goals. He is 35 and joins an Islanders roster that finished last in the league on the penalty kill, which is a unit he has killed on for a decade.

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.

  • clutch· scored his goals when the game was still live

    4 of his 18 goals late or in overtime, 94th percentile among forwards

    Season to season, this measure barely repeats (0.06) · 10% keep it

  • durable· was available

    80 of 82 games

    Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1,113 minutes

Expected goals
49.3%
49th pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
47.3%
29th pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 38 for, 58 against. Expected: 44.4 and 45.7.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted
Report
67th
Numbers
49th

The two rank him within 18 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 — 75 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 · 80 games

Top speed
22.4 mph
60th pct

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

Bursts over 20 mph
1.06 a game

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

Distance
2.68 miles a game

skated, all strengths

Hardest shot
87.3 mph
65th 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

7

points in his last 10 games — 4 goals, 3 assists, 21 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 with STL · 874 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
NYI took 48.4% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 49.3% — 0.9 above the club he did it on.
The role
1,113 minutes at five-on-five — 72nd percentile in ice time.

With and without

TeammateTogetherHim apartMate apart
Cam Fowler50.8%48.7%48.6%
Justin Faulk44.2%51.2%45.7%
Jimmy Snuggerud50.0%49.0%50.0%

50.8% together, 48.7% for him apart and 48.6% for Fowler 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

185 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 18 of them goals. His median goal came from 20 feet. 43% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 14% from beyond forty.