Carson Soucy

6-4 and 211, 46 penalty minutes, and 78 per cent of his shots from beyond 40 feet.

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

2017-18	MIN	3	0	0	0	-2	2	0	0	0	4	0.0	14:51
2019-20	MIN	55	7	7	14	+16	18	0	1	1	61	11.5	15:38
2020-21	MIN	50	1	16	17	+22	51	0	0	1	47	2.1	15:17
2021-22	SEA	64	10	11	21	+7	47	0	1	1	97	10.3	17:40
2022-23	SEA	78	3	13	16	+18	68	0	0	0	87	3.5	16:18
2023-24	VAN	40	2	4	6	+10	12	1	0	0	29	6.9	17:29
2024-25	VAN/NYR	75	4	9	13	-11	46	0	0	2	81	4.9	17:55
2025-26 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	365	27	60	87	+60	244	1	2	5	406	6.7	16:45

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 9 assists in 75 games between Vancouver and New York — 13 points, minus-11, at 17:55 a night with 46 penalty minutes.

45.7 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 17th percentile, across 1,112 minutes, with the on-ice goals 47-48 against an expectation of 37.43-44.49. He was traded at the deadline and the underlying number did not move when the sweater did.

The Finesse Game

5 per cent of his attempts came from inside 20 feet and 78 per cent from beyond 40, at a median of 54. That is a defenceman who arrives at the blue line, releases, and retreats, and there is no second layer to it.

87 points in 365 career games across seven seasons is the whole offensive record. The first pass is safe rather than quick, and a heavy forecheck takes it off him.

The Physical Game

6-4 and 211, and this is the job. He clears the front of his own net, he is difficult to move out of the paint, and he plays with an edge that crosses the line often enough to be worth counting — 244 penalty minutes in 365 games.

The skating is the tax and it is a real one. He cannot recover a step he has given away, so a gap that opens stays open, and against a skilled line he defends the whole shift from behind.

The Intangibles

A fifth-round pick who did not become a full-time NHL player until he was 25 and has since played for four clubs.

At 31 he is exactly what he was at 27 and the contract is short enough that this does not matter. He is insurance, he is a penalty killer, and he is the man who goes into the lineup when a series turns nasty.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,112 minutes

Expected goals: 45.7%; 17th pct
Shot attempts: 45.8%; 15th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 47 for, 48 against. Expected: 37.4 and 44.5.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

5th

Numbers

17th

The two rank him within 12 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 — 61 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 with VAN · 925 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: NYR took 47.7% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 45.7% — 2.0 below the club he did it on.
The role: 1,112 minutes at five-on-five — 76th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Noah Juulsen	43.3%	46.6%	48.5%
Conor Garland	48.5%	44.8%	55.2%
Teddy Blueger	41.4%	46.9%	47.8%

43.3% together, 46.6% for him apart and 48.5% for Juulsen apart. Both were better apart than together — the pairing was doing neither of them any favours.

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

123 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 4 of them goals. His median goal came from 39 feet. 5% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 78% from beyond forty.