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Casey Fitzgerald
Florida Panthers Defense #4
Sixty-three NHL games across nine professional seasons, and no goals in any of them.
| Season | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-23 | 27 | 0 | 3 | 3 | -2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 0.0 | 11:55 |
| Career | 63 | 0 | 9 | 9 | -21 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 54 | 0.0 | 14:45 |
No games in 2025-26. The season above is the last one he played, and everything on this page should be read with that gap in it.
2022-23
No goals and three assists in 27 games, minus-two, at 11:55 a night with four penalty minutes. He has not played an NHL game in the three seasons since.
The Finesse Game
Thirteen shots on goal in 27 games. No goals in 63 career NHL games, and nine assists.
He is a puck-moving defenceman by description and a safe-pass defenceman in practice, which is the difference between an American League regular and an NHL one.
The Physical Game
Five foot eleven and 188 pounds, which is small for the position. Four penalty minutes in 27 games. He defends with stick and angles because there is no alternative available to him.
The Intangibles
No five-on-five record in this edition, because the last time he played an NHL game was three seasons ago.
He is 29, a third-round pick out of Boston College, son of a general manager and brother of a first-round pick, and he has made 63 NHL games out of a career spent almost entirely in Rochester and Providence.
Florida signs him as the eighth defenceman. That is a real job on a club that has lost defencemen to injury in every one of its runs, and it is the whole of what this page can honestly say.