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Cam York

The 93rd percentile of chances — the best figure on the club — from a 24-year-old defenceman who played 66 games and finished minus-8.

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

2020-21	PHI	3	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	1	0.0	19:47
2021-22	PHI	30	3	7	10	-14	6	1	0	0	33	9.1	19:05
2022-23	PHI	54	2	18	20	-1	18	0	0	0	42	4.8	19:39
2023-24	PHI	82	10	20	30	-13	44	0	0	1	134	7.5	22:37
2024-25	PHI	66	4	13	17	-8	26	0	0	1	65	6.2	20:47
2025-26 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	235	19	58	77	-37	94	1	0	2	275	6.9	20:56

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

4 goals and 13 assists in 66 games — 17 points at 20:47 a night, minus-8, with 26 penalty minutes. He missed a quarter of the season.

54.4 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 93rd percentile — the best mark on this roster. His ice went 43-56 against an expectation of 49.40-41.33, which means he beat the chances on both sides and still finished the year in the red on the scoresheet. That gap is the whole club in one line.

The Finesse Game

65 attempts in 66 games at a median of 41 feet — he is not a shooter and 4 goals is the honest number. 13 assists is low for a defenceman playing twenty-one minutes, and the reason is that the club scored 238 goals.

The value is the retrieval and the first pass. He is quick to the puck behind his own net, he escapes the first forechecker rather than absorbing him, and he moves it before the second one arrives.

The Physical Game

6-0 and 194 and light for the position. He defends with his stick and his feet, closes the gap early, and takes the puck rather than the man.

26 penalty minutes in 66 games. He does not clear his crease and he does not win a battle against a heavy forward — when the play gets into the paint he needs the goaltender or a partner.

The Intangibles

Fourteenth overall in 2019 and 235 NHL games in, all of it in Philadelphia across a rebuild that has not finished.

He is 24, he held out into training camp before signing in 2024, and he has quietly been the club’s best five-on-five defenceman for two seasons. The minus-37 across his career is a fact about the goaltending in front of which he has played.

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.

slot-man· shoots from where goals are scored
22.0% of his attempts in the slot, 95th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.69) · 44% keep it
transitiona strength· carries it out; gains the line under control
“He is quick to the puck behind his own net, he escapes the first forechecker rather than absorbing him, and he moves it before the second one arrives.”
defends-with-reacha strength· takes the puck before the contact happens
“He defends with his stick and his feet, closes the gap early, and takes the puck rather than the man.”
clears-the-creasehe lacks it· moves grown men off the front of his net
“He does not clear his crease and he does not win a battle against a heavy forward — when the play gets into the paint he needs the goaltender or a partner.”
hard-to-movehe lacks it· cannot be shifted from where he decides to stand
“He does not clear his crease and he does not win a battle against a heavy forward — when the play gets into the paint he needs the goaltender or a partner.”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,160 minutes

Expected goals: 54.4%; 88th pct
Shot attempts: 48.8%; 41st pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 43 for, 56 against. Expected: 49.4 and 41.3.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

55th

Numbers

88th

The numbers rank him 33 points above where the report does. 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 — 73 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 · 66 games

Top speed: 22.2 mph; 71st pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.36 a game
Distance: 3.01 miles a game
Hardest shot: 85.0 mph; 18th 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 · 1160 minutes at five-on-five

Travis Sanheim76%
Jamie Drysdale9%

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: PHI took 52.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 54.4% — 2.3 above the club he did it on.
The role: First pair, 1,160 minutes at five-on-five — 81st percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Travis Sanheim	55.2%	51.8%	51.4%
Travis Konecny	48.9%	56.8%	50.3%
Sean Couturier	53.5%	54.8%	51.6%

55.2% together, 51.8% for him apart and 51.4% for Sanheim 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

109 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 4 of them goals. His median goal came from 30 feet. 20% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 50% from beyond forty.