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Chandler Stephenson
Seattle Kraken Center #9
49 points, minus 24, and the worst chance share in the National Hockey League.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-16 | WSH | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.0 | 7:51 |
| 2016-17 | WSH | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0.0 | 8:53 |
| 2017-18 | WSH | 67 | 6 | 12 | 18 | +13 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 16.7 | 11:52 |
| 2018-19 | WSH | 64 | 5 | 6 | 11 | -13 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 36 | 13.9 | 12:07 |
| 2019-20 | WSH/VGK | 65 | 11 | 15 | 26 | +24 | 16 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 73 | 15.1 | 14:19 |
| 2020-21 | VGK | 51 | 14 | 21 | 35 | +22 | 29 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 83 | 16.9 | 18:06 |
| 2021-22 | VGK | 79 | 21 | 43 | 64 | +5 | 26 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 125 | 16.8 | 19:19 |
| 2022-23 | VGK | 81 | 16 | 49 | 65 | +12 | 26 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 120 | 13.3 | 19:01 |
| 2023-24 | VGK | 75 | 16 | 35 | 51 | -9 | 25 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 97 | 16.5 | 18:29 |
| 2024-25 | SEA | 78 | 13 | 38 | 51 | -9 | 24 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 73 | 17.8 | 19:31 |
| 2025-26 | SEA | 80 | 16 | 33 | 49 | -24 | 14 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 93 | 17.2 | 19:23 |
| 2026-27 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 653 | 118 | 252 | 370 | +18 | 170 | 26 | 10 | 26 | 741 | 15.9 | 16:56 |
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
16 goals and 33 assists in 80 games — 49 points, minus-24, at 19:23 a night with 6 power-play goals.
The Finesse Game
A genuinely quick centre with soft hands in tight. 123 unblocked attempts, 16 goals, median 28 feet with 36 per cent from inside 20 — a very good conversion off modest volume.
33 assists is real playmaking, and 370 points in 653 games is a legitimate second-line rate.
The Physical Game
6 foot even, 201, and he is not heavy. 14 penalty minutes in 80 games is one of the lowest rates on the club.
The speed is the tool. He does not use it to forecheck and he does not defend with it.
The Intangibles
This is the page. 38.5 per cent of the expected goals — the nought-th percentile, and the worst mark of any skater in the league who played 1,000 5-on-5 minutes — with 40.3 per cent of the shot attempts, 1st percentile, across 1,120 of them.
The chances underneath were 36.7 for and 58.6 against. That is a 23-goal deficit in expected goals for 1 skater in 1 season, and it is the largest in this book.
He scored 49 points anyway, which is the whole problem: the box score says second-line centre and the ice says the puck lived in his own end for 1,100 minutes.
9 points in his last 10. He is 32, a third-round pick who won a Cup in Vegas, and Seattle is paying for the version that played behind Eichel and Stone. There is no version of the underlying numbers here that can be explained away by usage.
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.
- durable· was available
80 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
- hard-minutes· is started in his own end, against the other club's best
32% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 7th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1,120 minutes
- Expected goals
- 38.5%
- 1st pct
- Shot attempts
- 40.3%
- 1st 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: 35 for, 47 against. Expected: 36.7 and 58.6.
The eye and the numbers
SightedThe report ranks him 32 points above where the numbers do. It was written with these numbers on screen and departs from them anyway, which makes the gap a judgment rather than an oversight. Why the numbers land there sets out the club he did it on, the minutes he played and the men he played them with.
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 — 69 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 · 80 games
- Top speed
- 23.3 mph
- 91st pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 2.11 a game
- Distance
- 3.08 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 85.6 mph
- 55th 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 83.6
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
9
points in his last 10 games — 2 goals, 7 assists, 8 shots
Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.
Usual linemates
2025-26 · 1120 minutes at five-on-five
- Eeli Tolvanennow NYR59%
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
- SEA took 46.0% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 38.5% — 7.5 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Second line, 1,120 minutes at five-on-five — 73rd percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eeli Tolvanen | 40.0% | 36.3% | 48.4% |
| Adam Larsson | 38.2% | 38.7% | 48.1% |
| Vince Dunn | 38.4% | 38.6% | 48.5% |
40.0% together, 36.3% for him apart and 48.4% for Tolvanen apart. He was the one being carried: the share went with Tolvanen and did not follow him.
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
123 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 16 of them goals. His median goal came from 18 feet. 36% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 15% from beyond forty.