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Brayden Schenn

Sixty-one penalty minutes at 33 from a captain who takes 36 per cent of his shot attempts from inside 20 feet.

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

2009-10	LAK	1	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0	—	12:31
2010-11	LAK	8	0	2	2	-1	0	0	0	0	11	0.0	11:15
2011-12	PHI	54	12	6	18	-7	34	4	0	3	97	12.4	14:07
2012-13	PHI	47	8	18	26	-8	24	2	0	0	79	10.1	15:32
2013-14	PHI	82	20	21	41	0	54	4	0	6	178	11.2	15:45
2014-15	PHI	82	18	29	47	-5	34	7	0	6	156	11.5	17:05
2015-16	PHI	80	26	33	59	+3	33	11	0	5	178	14.6	16:54
2016-17	PHI	79	25	30	55	-13	38	17	0	7	178	14.0	17:48
2017-18	STL	82	28	42	70	+10	56	8	0	8	210	13.3	19:44
2018-19	STL	72	17	37	54	+3	40	4	0	5	159	10.7	18:35
2019-20	STL	71	25	33	58	+3	44	10	0	4	138	18.1	18:28
2020-21	STL	56	16	20	36	-2	35	6	0	2	113	14.2	19:09
2021-22	STL	62	24	34	58	+21	33	7	0	3	111	21.6	17:47
2022-23	STL	82	21	44	65	-27	50	6	0	3	144	14.6	18:26
2023-24	STL	82	20	26	46	-22	56	4	1	3	170	11.8	17:47
2024-25	STL	82	18	32	50	+3	61	2	0	5	145	12.4	17:34
2025-26 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	1022	278	407	685	-43	592	92	1	60	2067	13.5	17:31

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

18 goals and 32 assists in 82 games — 50 points at 17:34 a night, plus-3, with 5 game-winning goals and 61 penalty minutes, the most on the club.

49.6 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 44th percentile. His ice went 53-45 against an expectation of 41.94-42.71 — eight fewer goals conceded than the chances predicted, on a line that broke even in the play.

The Finesse Game

145 attempts at a median of 27 feet with 36 per cent from inside 20, converting at 12.4 per cent. He goes to the middle and he has done for sixteen seasons.

32 assists. The hands are ordinary and the hockey sense is not; he wins the draw that begins the shift, he makes the correct first pass out of his own end, and he is the man on the ice protecting a one-goal lead.

The Physical Game

6-1 and 200 and among the harder men in the league to play against. He finishes every check, he goes into the scrum after the whistle, and he answers everything.

61 penalty minutes in 82 games, and 592 in 1,022 career games. A share of it is retaliation and a share of it is deliberate. He crosses the line and he knows exactly where it is.

The Intangibles

Fifth overall in 2009, a Stanley Cup here in 2019, 1,022 games and 685 points, and the captaincy since 2021.

He is 34. He was the subject of persistent trade speculation for two seasons and stayed, and the club that kept him won twelve straight in March to make the playoffs.

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
net-fronta strength· lives in the blue paint; the screens and the tips
“He goes to the middle and he has done for sixteen seasons.”
faceoffsa strength· takes the draw that starts it
“he wins the draw that begins the shift, he makes the correct first pass out of his own end, and he is the man on the ice protecting a one-goal lead.”
defensively-responsiblea strength· comes back; can be trusted with a lead
“he wins the draw that begins the shift, he makes the correct first pass out of his own end, and he is the man on the ice protecting a one-goal lead.”
punishinga strength· finishes checks; hurts people legally
“He finishes every check, he goes into the scrum after the whistle, and he answers everything.”
retaliatesa strength· answers the cross-check, and takes the second penalty
“He finishes every check, he goes into the scrum after the whistle, and he answers everything.”
takes-libertiesa strength· crosses the line and knows where it is
“He crosses the line and he knows exactly where it is.”
leadershipa strength· the room, and who holds it
“Fifth overall in 2009, a Stanley Cup here in 2019, **1,022 games and 685 points**, and the captaincy since 2021.”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,129 minutes

Expected goals: 49.6%; 49th pct
Shot attempts: 47.6%; 30th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 53 for, 45 against. Expected: 41.9 and 42.7.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

88th

Numbers

49th

The report ranks him 39 points above where the numbers do. 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. 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 637 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 80 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: 22.7 mph; 71st pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 1.17 a game
Distance: 2.80 miles a game
Hardest shot: 88.5 mph; 69th 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.

Usual linemates

2024-25 · 1129 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: STL took 51.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 49.6% — 1.5 below the club he did it on.
The role: First line, 1,129 minutes at five-on-five — 79th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Dylan Holloway	54.0%	42.4%	55.7%
Jordan Kyrou	54.4%	42.8%	53.3%
Justin Faulk	46.6%	51.1%	48.5%

54.0% together, 42.4% for him apart and 55.7% for Holloway apart. He was worse away from Holloway, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Holloway 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

219 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 20 of them goals. His median goal came from 14 feet. 36% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 18% from beyond forty.