Carter Verhaeghe

A third-round pick who has scored 172 goals, and shoots from 30 feet.

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

2019-20	TBL	52	9	4	13	-9	8	1	0	1	57	15.8	9:22
2020-21	FLA	43	18	18	36	+24	31	1	1	3	107	16.8	17:44
2021-22	FLA	78	24	31	55	+24	48	0	0	4	167	14.4	16:03
2022-23	FLA	81	42	31	73	+10	46	7	0	2	275	15.3	17:30
2023-24	FLA	76	34	38	72	+17	36	8	0	7	246	13.8	17:58
2024-25	FLA	81	20	33	53	-14	46	5	0	5	242	8.3	17:52
2025-26	FLA	77	25	30	55	-14	32	6	0	4	187	13.4	17:37
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	488	172	185	357	+38	247	28	1	26	1281	13.4	16:34

This Season So Far

The 2026-27 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

25 goals and 30 assists in 77 games — 55 points, minus-14, at 17:37 a night with 6 power-play goals.

The Finesse Game

The speed is the engine and it always has been. He beats defencemen wide from the neutral zone and the release comes off the rush, which is why the shot chart looks the way it does: median 30 feet, only 34 per cent from inside 20.

That is a long way out for a 25-goal scorer, and it works because the shots come with a defenceman turning rather than set. 25 goals from 274 attempts is a good conversion from awkward ice.

The Physical Game

6-2 and 183 pounds, which is light, and he plays accordingly. 32 penalty minutes. He is not going to the net front and does not win pucks along the wall; the entire game depends on getting to open ice first.

The Intangibles

51.8 per cent of the expected goals, 69th percentile, and 54.4 per cent of the shot attempts, 88th — a genuinely good possession season attached to a minus-14, which is the club’s whole problem in one line.

6 points in his last 10, 5 of them goals.

He is 31, an 82nd overall pick who did not play a full NHL season until he was 24, and he has 172 goals and 2 Stanley Cups. On the playoff question his page is honest: a game built on speed into open ice is the one a checking series takes away first.

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

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.

clutch· scored his goals when the game was still live
5 of his 25 goals late or in overtime, 91st percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure barely repeats (0.06) · 10% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1,090 minutes

Expected goals: 51.8%; 69th pct
Shot attempts: 54.4%; 88th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 52 for, 53 against. Expected: 53.2 and 49.5.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

61st

Numbers

69th

The two rank him within 8 points of one another. It was written with these numbers on screen, so the agreement is not corroboration — the arithmetic is on both sides of it.

Both bars are percentiles among the 656 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 74 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, 2025-26 · 77 games

Top speed: 22.4 mph; 58th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 2.34 a game
Distance: 2.91 miles a game
Hardest shot: 86.0 mph; 56th 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.

Recent form

Last 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first

points in his last 10 games — 5 goals, 1 assists, 26 shots

Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 1090 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, 2025-26

The club: FLA took 50.4% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 51.8% — 1.4 above the club he did it on.
The role: Third line, 1,090 minutes at five-on-five — 70th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Sam Bennett	50.3%	54.4%	51.7%
Gustav Forsling	51.6%	51.9%	52.8%
Niko Mikkola	51.3%	52.0%	50.4%

50.3% together, 54.4% for him apart and 51.7% for Bennett apart. He was better away from Bennett, who was no worse away from him — the pairing cost him more than it cost Bennett.

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

274 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 25 of them goals. His median goal came from 21 feet. 34% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 23% from beyond forty.