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Casey Cizikas
New York Islanders Center #53
Nine hundred and seventy-eight games in one uniform, and half his shots from the paint.
| Season | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 81 | 10 | 8 | 18 | -3 | 20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 80 | 12.5 | 11:46 |
| Career | 978 | 124 | 156 | 280 | -1 | 457 | 1 | 13 | 21 | 1177 | 10.5 | 13:14 |
Last Season
Ten goals and eight assists in 81 games — 18 points, minus-three, at 11:46 a night with 20 penalty minutes.
The Finesse Game
Better than fifteen seasons of reputation suggest. A hundred and twenty-four unblocked attempts with 54 per cent from inside twenty feet, median 17, and eight goals.
He gets to the net and takes what is there. A hundred and twenty-four goals in 978 career games is the rate of a fourth-line centre who scores occasionally, which is exactly what he is.
Eight assists in 81 games is the honest ceiling.
The Physical Game
Five foot eleven, 191, and he plays a considerably heavier game than that. Twenty penalty minutes is unusually low for him and reads as a man managing a body at 35.
He wins defensive-zone faceoffs, kills penalties, and forechecks with genuine violence for his size.
The Intangibles
Fifty point five per cent of the expected goals, 58th percentile — the third-best forward mark on the club — in 827 minutes of the least glamorous work available.
Nine hundred and seventy-eight games, all of them for one organisation, from a fourth-round pick. He is 35 and the last of a fourth line that was famous for a while.
Two points in his last ten, both goals. There is not much left, and what there is has been worth more than the 280 career points suggest.