Brian Dumoulin

A 2-time Cup winner whose entire job is to make sure nothing happens, and who is very good at it.

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

2013-14	PIT	6	0	1	1	+1	4	0	0	0	3	0.0	19:14
2014-15	PIT	8	1	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	4	25.0	15:40
2015-16	PIT	79	0	16	16	+11	14	0	0	0	101	0.0	18:53
2016-17	PIT	70	1	14	15	0	14	0	0	0	78	1.3	20:33
2017-18	PIT	80	5	13	18	-5	30	0	0	1	102	4.9	20:37
2018-19	PIT	76	3	20	23	+31	20	0	0	0	99	3.0	21:02
2019-20	PIT	28	1	7	8	+17	10	0	1	0	35	2.9	21:03
2020-21	PIT	41	4	10	14	+18	12	0	0	0	50	8.0	22:21
2021-22	PIT	76	3	15	18	+24	24	0	0	0	91	3.3	21:49
2022-23	PIT	82	1	24	25	-4	16	0	0	0	82	1.2	20:38
2023-24	SEA	80	6	10	16	+3	20	0	0	1	69	8.7	17:01
2024-25	ANA/NJD	80	3	19	22	-1	14	0	0	1	69	4.3	19:33
2025-26	LAK	82	2	15	17	-1	22	0	0	0	61	3.3	17:45
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	788	30	164	194	+94	202	0	1	3	844	3.5	19:52

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

2 goals and 17 points in all 82 games, minus-1, on nearly 18 minutes a night, most of it partnered with Ceci on the third pair.

The Finesse Game

Almost none, and that is the design. 30 goals in 788 career games. He does not shoot, does not join the rush, and makes the safe first pass every time — which is a genuine skill when the alternative is a turnover at his own blue line.

The skating is smooth rather than quick, and the gap control is sound. He defends the rush by taking away the middle and forcing play to the outside, which is the whole of his method.

The Physical Game

6-4 and 215, and he uses the size positionally. He boxes out in front, he is strong on the wall, and he does not chase hits. He blocks a lot of shots.

The Intangibles

He spent a decade as the quiet half of a very good pairing in Pittsburgh, doing the defensive work while somebody else took the acclaim. Everything about his reputation is built on trustworthiness rather than ability.

He is 35 and his game has always depended on reading rather than skating, which is the profile that lasts. There is nothing here that will surprise anyone in either direction.

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.

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 · 1,320 minutes

Expected goals: 50.1%; 55th pct
Shot attempts: 51%; 67th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 40 for, 45 against. Expected: 49.7 and 49.6.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

49th

Numbers

55th

The two rank him within 6 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 — 72 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: 21.9 mph; 57th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.17 a game
Distance: 2.37 miles a game
Hardest shot: 87.5 mph; 34th 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, 4 assists, 10 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 1320 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: LAK took 51.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 50.1% — 1.8 below the club he did it on.
The role: Third pair, 1,320 minutes at five-on-five — 89th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Cody Ceci	49.2%	51.3%	50.5%
Quinton Byfield	49.0%	50.5%	54.5%
Alex Laferriere	48.6%	50.5%	53.8%

49.2% together, 51.3% for him apart and 50.5% for Ceci 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

100 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 2 of them goals. His median goal came from 60 feet. 7% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 72% from beyond forty.