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Casey Cizikas
New York Islanders Center
82 games at 34 on the fourth line, and a line that scored 47 goals against an expectation of 33.5.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011-12 | NYI | 15 | 0 | 4 | 4 | +1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0.0 | 10:36 |
| 2012-13 | NYI | 45 | 6 | 9 | 15 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 45 | 13.3 | 10:47 |
| 2013-14 | NYI | 80 | 6 | 10 | 16 | -12 | 30 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 79 | 7.6 | 13:22 |
| 2014-15 | NYI | 70 | 9 | 9 | 18 | -2 | 24 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 90 | 10.0 | 12:31 |
| 2015-16 | NYI | 80 | 8 | 21 | 29 | +4 | 31 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 84 | 9.5 | 12:41 |
| 2016-17 | NYI | 59 | 8 | 17 | 25 | +9 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 82 | 9.8 | 13:54 |
| 2017-18 | NYI | 64 | 7 | 10 | 17 | -12 | 23 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 74 | 9.5 | 13:13 |
| 2018-19 | NYI | 73 | 20 | 13 | 33 | +22 | 36 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 111 | 18.0 | 14:01 |
| 2019-20 | NYI | 48 | 10 | 4 | 14 | +12 | 41 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 67 | 14.9 | 14:18 |
| 2020-21 | NYI | 56 | 7 | 7 | 14 | -2 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 72 | 9.7 | 13:50 |
| 2021-22 | NYI | 74 | 10 | 6 | 16 | -3 | 48 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 91 | 11.0 | 13:45 |
| 2022-23 | NYI | 81 | 6 | 15 | 21 | 0 | 54 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 111 | 5.4 | 14:32 |
| 2023-24 | NYI | 70 | 10 | 13 | 23 | -2 | 22 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 82 | 12.2 | 13:56 |
| 2024-25 | NYI | 82 | 7 | 10 | 17 | -13 | 51 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 97 | 7.2 | 13:02 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 897 | 114 | 148 | 262 | +2 | 437 | 1 | 12 | 21 | 1097 | 10.4 | 13:22 |
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
82 games, 7 goals and 10 assists for 17 points at 13:02 a night, on 97 shots at 7.22 per cent. 51 penalty minutes. Minus-13.
On-ice goals of 24-39 against an expected 31.36-35.77 — his line scored fourteen more than the chances said it should have and conceded two fewer, which is one of the largest positive gaps of any fourth-line forward in this edition. A 47 per cent chance share underneath it. The minus-13 comes from shorthanded time on a unit that finished 31st in the league, and it is not a description of him.
The Finesse Game
41 per cent of his shots came from inside 20 feet at a median of 25, and 7.22 per cent on 97 attempts is what a fourth-line centre returns.
There is not much offensive game here and there has not been for a decade. He wins draws, he forechecks, and he is on the ice at the end of periods and the ends of games because nothing about his judgement changes with the score.
The Physical Game
5-11 and 191 and among the most consistently physical forwards in the league at that size — he hits everything, he blocks shots, and 51 penalty minutes at thirteen minutes a night is the standing cost.
He has fought men eighty pounds heavier and has never once looked reluctant about it.
The Intangibles
A fourth-round pick of the Islanders in 2009, fifteen seasons in one organisation, a Stanley Cup Final, and the identity of a club that has been rebuilt around him twice.
He is 34 and played all 82 games, and his line outscored what it deserved by fourteen goals — which for a fourth line is either the most valuable thing in this chapter or the most fragile. It is probably both.
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
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.
- durable· was available
82 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
“He wins draws”
“he is on the ice at the end of periods and the ends of games because nothing about his judgement changes with the score.”
“5-11 and 191 and among the most consistently physical forwards in the league at that size”
“he hits everything, he blocks shots”
“He has fought men eighty pounds heavier and has never once looked reluctant about it.”
“fifteen seasons in one organisation, a Stanley Cup Final, and the identity of a club that has been rebuilt around him twice.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 930 minutes
- Expected goals
- 46.7%
- 25th pct
- Shot attempts
- 49.4%
- 46th 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: 24 for, 39 against. Expected: 31.4 and 35.8.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 14 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 — 64 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 · 82 games
- Top speed
- 22.4 mph
- 54th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 2.04 a game
- Distance
- 2.22 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 88.7 mph
- 70th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.2
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 83.9
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 · 930 minutes at five-on-five
- Pierre Engvalloff the roster38%
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
- NYI took 49.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 46.7% — 3.2 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third line, 930 minutes at five-on-five — 50th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pierre Engvall | 47.4% | 46.3% | 47.4% |
| Simon Holmstrom | 45.4% | 47.4% | 52.8% |
| Jean-Gabriel Pageau | 54.2% | 43.7% | 52.4% |
47.4% together, 46.3% for him apart and 47.4% for Engvall apart. Splitting them up moved neither man. Whatever is driving the share, it is not this pairing.
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
155 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 7 of them goals. His median goal came from 12 feet. 41% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 24% from beyond forty.