Carson Soucy
New York Rangers Defense
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.
45.3 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 17th percentile, across 1,112 minutes, with the on-ice goals 35-43 against an expectation of 36.15-43.58. 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.
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.
- 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.
“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.”
“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.”
“he plays with an edge that crosses the line often enough to be worth counting — 244 penalty minutes in 365 games.”
“The first pass is safe rather than quick, and a heavy forecheck takes it off him.”
“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
- 45.3%
- 18th pct
- Shot attempts
- 45.9%
- 17th 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: 35 for, 43 against. Expected: 36.1 and 43.6.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 13 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.
Tracked
NHL Edge, 2024-25 · 75 games
- Top speed
- 21.5 mph
- 45th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.19 a game
- Distance
- 2.58 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 92.4 mph
- 66th 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 with VAN · 925 minutes at five-on-five
- Tyler Myers28%
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 45.3% — 2.4 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 | 38.9% | 47.7% | 44.7% |
| Conor Garland | 48.9% | 44.3% | 54.1% |
| Teddy Blueger | 38.3% | 47.2% | 47.6% |
38.9% together, 47.7% for him apart and 44.7% 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.