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Cam Fowler

Acquired from Anaheim in December, and his ice conceded thirteen fewer goals than the chances predicted.

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

2010-11	ANA	76	10	30	40	-25	20	6	0	3	123	8.1	22:08
2011-12	ANA	82	5	24	29	-28	18	2	0	0	123	4.1	23:16
2012-13	ANA	37	1	10	11	-4	4	1	0	0	50	2.0	20:26
2013-14	ANA	70	6	30	36	+15	14	4	1	2	100	6.0	23:52
2014-15	ANA	80	7	27	34	+4	14	1	1	2	87	8.1	21:09
2015-16	ANA	69	5	23	28	-8	27	3	0	0	113	4.4	22:47
2016-17	ANA	80	11	28	39	+7	20	5	1	3	186	5.9	24:51
2017-18	ANA	67	8	24	32	+3	28	1	1	1	122	6.6	24:51
2018-19	ANA	59	5	18	23	-14	20	1	0	2	88	5.7	23:22
2019-20	ANA	59	9	20	29	0	20	2	0	2	117	7.7	21:59
2020-21	ANA	56	5	18	23	-4	18	0	0	1	75	6.7	21:46
2021-22	ANA	76	9	33	42	-9	14	6	0	1	124	7.3	24:25
2022-23	ANA	82	10	38	48	-23	14	4	0	1	130	7.7	24:10
2023-24	ANA	81	5	34	39	-36	24	2	0	0	109	4.6	24:25
2024-25	ANA/STL	68	9	31	40	+12	14	2	0	1	88	10.2	21:33
2025-26 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	1042	105	388	493	-110	269	40	4	19	1635	6.4	23:08

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

9 goals and 31 assists in 68 games across Anaheim and St. Louis — 40 points at 21:33 a night, plus-12, with only 14 penalty minutes.

51.8 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 71st percentile. His ice went 62-46 against an expectation of 48.55-45.11 — thirteen fewer goals conceded than the chances predicted, which is the largest defensive surplus on the blue line.

The Finesse Game

88 attempts at a median of 50 feet with 66 per cent from beyond 40 and 12 per cent from inside 20, converting at 10.2 per cent for 9 goals — a good return from a low volume.

31 assists in 68 games is the most of any defenceman on the club. He escapes the first forechecker by turning away from it, he moves the puck early and accurately, and he has been doing that at a high level for fifteen years.

The Physical Game

6-2 and 213 and he defends with his feet. He is not the man who clears his own crease and he does not finish checks.

14 penalty minutes in 68 games at twenty-one and a half minutes a night is a very low rate. He is rarely beaten badly enough to reach and there is no edge to the game at all.

The Intangibles

Twelfth overall in 2010 and 1,042 games and 493 points, fourteen and a half seasons of them in Anaheim — a career minus-110 that is a fact about that club.

He was traded to St. Louis in December for a prospect and picks, at 33, and it was the trade that turned the season. He is 34.

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.

hard-shot· beats a goaltender from range
5 of 73 attempts from 40 feet or beyond, 6.8%, 99th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.21) · 16% keep it
transitiona strength· carries it out; gains the line under control
“He escapes the first forechecker by turning away from it, he moves the puck early and accurately, and he has been doing that at a high level for fifteen years.”
playmakera strength· passes up the shot a scorer takes
“**31 assists in 68 games is the most of any defenceman on the club.**”
clears-the-creasehe lacks it· moves grown men off the front of his net
“He is not the man who clears his own crease and he does not finish checks.”
punishinghe lacks it· finishes checks; hurts people legally
“He is not the man who clears his own crease and he does not finish checks.”
fouls-when-beatena strength· the stick foul that follows losing a step
“**14 penalty minutes in 68 games at twenty-one and a half minutes a night** is a very low rate.”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,187 minutes

Expected goals: 51.8%; 69th pct
Shot attempts: 50.3%; 56th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 62 for, 46 against. Expected: 48.5 and 45.1.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

66th

Numbers

69th

The two rank him within 3 points of one another. 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.

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 — 75 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 · 68 games

Top speed: 21.7 mph; 52nd pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.62 a game
Distance: 3.17 miles a game
Hardest shot: 89.1 mph; 39th 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 · 888 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 51.8% — 0.7 above the club he did it on.
The role: Third pair, 1,187 minutes at five-on-five — 84th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Colton Parayko	58.9%	47.6%	46.1%
Robert Thomas	54.9%	50.5%	56.0%
Pavel Buchnevich	56.0%	50.3%	51.9%

58.9% together, 47.6% for him apart and 46.1% for Parayko apart. Both were worse apart, so whatever the two of them had together was doing real work.

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

111 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 9 of them goals. His median goal came from 53 feet. 12% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 66% from beyond forty.