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Brock Faber
Minnesota Wild Defense
25:32 a night at 23 — the second-heaviest workload in the league — and a 46.9 per cent chance share.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-23 | MIN | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 | 20:04 |
| 2023-24 | MIN | 82 | 8 | 39 | 47 | -1 | 26 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 136 | 5.9 | 24:58 |
| 2024-25 | MIN | 78 | 10 | 19 | 29 | -2 | 23 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 124 | 8.1 | 25:32 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 162 | 18 | 58 | 76 | -1 | 49 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 261 | 6.9 | 25:11 |
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
10 goals and 19 assists in 78 games for 29 points, minus-2, on 25:32 a night — the second-heaviest workload of any skater in this edition.
46.9 per cent at five-on-five, the 23rd percentile, over 1,503 minutes. His on-ice goals were 52-45 against an expected 52.9-60.0, which is 15 goals of goaltending in his favour on a chance share that was genuinely poor.
The Finesse Game
The skating is exceptional — he covers ground, he closes gaps at the blue line without reaching, and he can carry the puck out under pressure.
124 shots and 10 goals is a decent return and the first pass is quick without being creative. 19 assists at 25 minutes a night is a low total, and the offensive game has not grown since his rookie season.
The Physical Game
6-1 and 200, and he defends properly. He boxes out in front, takes contact, and blocks shots at a high rate.
23 penalty minutes over 78 games at 25 minutes a night is excellent discipline and is the strongest thing in his statistical record.
The Intangibles
A second-round pick, an Olympian, and a top-pair job from the day he arrived.
The honest reading is that he is being used beyond what he is currently capable of. 25:32 a night at 23 on a club with no other option produced a 23rd-percentile chance share, and the club’s response was to sign him long-term rather than to find him help.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,503 minutes
- Expected goals
- 46.9%
- 24th pct
- Shot attempts
- 46.3%
- 19th 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: 52 for, 45 against. Expected: 52.9 and 60.0.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe report ranks him 56 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 357 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 78 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.
Usual linemates
2024-25 · 1503 minutes at five-on-five
- Jonas Brodin22%
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
- MIN took 49.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 46.9% — 2.2 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- First pair, 1,503 minutes at five-on-five — 99th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jake Middleton | 46.9% | 46.7% | 47.6% |
| Matt Boldy | 51.1% | 44.2% | 55.9% |
| Marco Rossi | 51.1% | 44.4% | 52.4% |
46.9% together, 46.7% for him apart and 47.6% for Middleton 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
184 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 10 of them goals. His median goal came from 40 feet. 9% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 71% from beyond forty.