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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.
46.2 per cent at five-on-five, the 21st percentile, over 1,503 minutes. His on-ice goals were 46-47 against an expected 52.4-61.0, 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.
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
- he lacks itraised, and he does not have it
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
78 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
- workhorse· carries the load at even strength
19:16 a game at five-on-five, 97th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.78) · 58% keep it
“he can carry the puck out under pressure”
“the first pass is quick without being creative. 19 assists at 25 minutes a night is a low total”
“6-1 and 200, and he defends properly.”
“He boxes out in front, takes contact, and blocks shots at a high rate.”
“He boxes out in front”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,503 minutes
- Expected goals
- 46.2%
- 21st pct
- Shot attempts
- 46.1%
- 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: 46 for, 47 against. Expected: 52.4 and 61.0.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe report ranks him 59 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 — 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.
Tracked
NHL Edge, 2024-25 · 78 games
- Top speed
- 22.9 mph
- 91st pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.03 a game
- Distance
- 3.56 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 91.4 mph
- 56th 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 89.7
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 · 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 46.2% — 2.9 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 | 46.7% | 45.4% | 47.8% |
| Matt Boldy | 49.7% | 44.0% | 56.7% |
| Marco Rossi | 52.1% | 42.8% | 53.5% |
46.7% together, 45.4% for him apart and 47.8% 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.