Armchair Hockey Scout

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2026-27 edition Ask a direct question about this edition of the book — who, how many, how common, which group more — and it is answered with a table computed on this page from the edition’s index: the season line, height and age, the on-ice percentiles, the grades and the traits read out of every report. Ask for a view on named players — what a comparison comes down to, what makes a man — and you get the book’s reading of their own pages, and only those. The model turns your question into a query and phrases the result, or reads the pages it is handed; it never originates a figure, and an answer carrying a figure that is on neither the table nor the pages is withheld. It does not forecast, and it says so when a question is outside what the book holds.

Tables are computed on this page from the 2026-27 edition’s index; readings rest on the players’ own pages; the model never counts. Twenty questions an hour.
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Casey Fitzgerald

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Casey Fitzgerald

Florida Panthers Defense #4

63 NHL games across 9 professional seasons, and no goals in any of them.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2021-22BUF36066-1936000410.016:53
2022-23BUF/FLA27033-24000130.011:55
2026-27 so far—————————————
Career—63099-2140000540.014:45

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.

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.

2022-23

No goals and 3 assists in 27 games, minus-2, at 11:55 a night with 4 penalty minutes. He has not played an NHL game in the 3 seasons since.

The Finesse Game

13 shots on goal in 27 games. No goals in 63 career NHL games, and 9 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

5-11 and 188 pounds, which is small for the position. 4 penalty minutes in 27 games. He defends with stick and angles because there is no alternative available to him.

The Intangibles

No 5-on-5 record in this edition, because the last time he played an NHL game was 3 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.