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| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011-12 | DAL | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0.0 | 19:59 |
| 2012-13 | DAL | 48 | 3 | 5 | 8 | +1 | 65 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 75 | 4.0 | 21:23 |
| 2013-14 | DAL | 80 | 6 | 11 | 17 | +9 | 86 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 97 | 6.2 | 21:06 |
| 2014-15 | DAL/SJS | 80 | 2 | 8 | 10 | -13 | 77 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 91 | 2.2 | 19:34 |
| 2015-16 | SJS | 76 | 2 | 9 | 11 | +8 | 61 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 93 | 2.1 | 16:41 |
| 2016-17 | SJS | 81 | 2 | 8 | 10 | -2 | 60 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 86 | 2.3 | 16:28 |
| 2017-18 | SJS | 81 | 5 | 17 | 22 | -7 | 60 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 88 | 5.7 | 17:19 |
| 2018-19 | SJS | 82 | 1 | 21 | 22 | +19 | 61 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 71 | 1.4 | 17:45 |
| 2019-20 | SJS/WSH | 69 | 1 | 13 | 14 | -2 | 104 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 58 | 1.7 | 19:28 |
| 2020-21 | WSH | 56 | 2 | 17 | 19 | +15 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 51 | 3.9 | 18:57 |
| 2021-22 | WPG | 79 | 3 | 17 | 20 | +16 | 67 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 85 | 3.5 | 18:50 |
| 2022-23 | WPG | 82 | 2 | 21 | 23 | +2 | 76 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 83 | 2.4 | 19:35 |
| 2023-24 | WPG | 77 | 8 | 12 | 20 | +20 | 92 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 79 | 10.1 | 18:44 |
| 2024-25 | NJD | 82 | 2 | 14 | 16 | +8 | 67 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 48 | 4.2 | 18:35 |
| 2025-26 | NJD | 82 | 3 | 12 | 15 | -13 | 89 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 55 | 5.5 | 18:00 |
| 2026-27 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 1056 | 42 | 185 | 227 | +61 | 1014 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 1066 | 3.9 | 18:39 |
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
3 goals and 12 assists in all 82 games — 15 points, minus-13, at 18:00 a night with 89 penalty minutes.
The Finesse Game
Absent by design. 83 unblocked attempts from a median of 58 feet — among the longest in this edition — with 2 per cent from inside 20, and 3 goals.
42 goals in 1,056 career games. He is on the ice to defend and to hurt people, and the club has never pretended otherwise.
The Physical Game
6-4, 225, and undrafted — a career built entirely on being willing. 89 penalty minutes, the most of any Devil, a genuine appetite for fighting, and a cleared crease.
The skating went years ago and it is why the ice time has fallen to 18 minutes.
The Intangibles
50.3 per cent of the expected goals, 57th percentile, with the chances 50.4 to 49.7 in his favour and the goals 38-62 against.
That is a perfectly respectable season and the minus-13 is the club’s finishing rather than his defending.
He is 35, in his fifteenth season, and 1,056 games into a career that began with nobody drafting him. New Jersey is built around Hughes, Hughes, Bratt and Hischier — 4 men who weigh about 700 pounds between them. This is who the club keeps for the nights that turn nasty.
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.
- perimeter· shoots from the outside, by choice or because he cannot get in
84.3% of his attempts from 40 feet or beyond, 95th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
- durable· was available
82 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 · 1,298 minutes
- Expected goals
- 50.3%
- 57th pct
- Shot attempts
- 50.3%
- 61st 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: 38 for, 62 against. Expected: 50.4 and 49.7.
The eye and the numbers
SightedThe numbers rank him 46 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.
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 — 64 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 · 82 games
- Top speed
- 22.7 mph
- 86th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.39 a game
- Distance
- 2.48 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 90.7 mph
- 51st 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
3
points in his last 10 games — 0 goals, 3 assists, 12 shots
Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.
Usual linemates
2025-26 · 1298 minutes at five-on-five
- Luke Hughes21%
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
- NJD took 50.4% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 50.3% — 0.1 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Second pair, 1,298 minutes at five-on-five — 88th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Simon Nemec | 50.1% | 50.5% | 47.6% |
| Timo Meier | 53.2% | 49.2% | 52.8% |
| Dawson Mercer | 53.0% | 49.3% | 51.7% |
50.1% together, 50.5% for him apart and 47.6% for Nemec 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
83 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 3 of them goals. His median goal came from 40 feet. 2% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 83% from beyond forty.