Charlie McAvoy
Boston Bruins Defense #73
Sixty-one points and twenty-four minutes a night, and the results in those minutes were merely average.
| Season | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 69 | 11 | 50 | 61 | +13 | 62 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 111 | 9.9 | 24:23 |
| Career | 573 | 71 | 290 | 361 | +157 | 491 | 16 | 2 | 19 | 962 | 7.4 | 23:32 |
Last Season
Eleven goals and 50 assists in 69 games — 61 points, plus-13, at 24:23 a night, the heaviest workload on the club. Thirteen games missed, which is now the pattern rather than the exception.
The Finesse Game
The skating is the foundation and it is still excellent: he escapes pressure by turning through it and he joins the rush as a genuine fourth attacker. Fifty assists from a defenceman is a top-pair number and most of them are earned at even strength rather than gifted on the power play.
The shot is a tool for creating rather than scoring. Fifty-seven per cent of his attempts came from beyond forty feet, median 44, and eleven went in.
The Physical Game
Six foot one, 211, and he plays a genuinely hard game — 62 penalty minutes, angry on the forecheck, willing in front of his own net. He is one of the few defencemen in the league who is both a puck-mover and unpleasant to play against.
The durability is the concern. Sixty-nine games is his fourth season in five under seventy.
The Intangibles
The eye says top-pair defenceman and the numbers say something more ordinary: 48.1 per cent of the expected goals, 36th percentile, with the goals going 53-56 against while he was out there.
That gap deserves the context. He faced the opposition’s best line every night on a club that was 24th in the league in expected goals against, and the man beside him changed repeatedly. But it has been more than one season now that his on-ice rates have sat below the reputation, and this is the year to watch whether the reputation or the rates are describing him better.