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| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 | VGK | 39 | 5 | 7 | 12 | -7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 51 | 9.8 | 13:22 |
| 2020-21 | VGK | 27 | 4 | 6 | 10 | +6 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 14.3 | 14:32 |
| 2021-22 | NSH | 8 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0.0 | 11:25 |
| 2022-23 | NSH | 72 | 14 | 21 | 35 | +9 | 20 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 131 | 10.7 | 14:46 |
| 2023-24 | NSH | 41 | 6 | 7 | 13 | -9 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 82 | 7.3 | 13:26 |
| 2024-25 | PIT/NJD | 65 | 6 | 16 | 22 | -5 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 91 | 6.6 | 13:39 |
| 2025-26 | NJD | 70 | 19 | 7 | 26 | +3 | 39 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 104 | 18.3 | 13:37 |
| 2026-27 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 322 | 54 | 65 | 119 | -3 | 109 | 13 | 0 | 8 | 496 | 10.9 | 13:51 |
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
19 goals and 7 assists in 70 games — 26 points, plus-3, at 13:37 a night.
The Finesse Game
The split is remarkable. 19 goals from 104 shots on goal is an 18 per cent conversion; 7 assists in 70 games is close to nothing.
The location supports the goals: 144 unblocked attempts, 44 per cent from inside 20 feet, median 22. He is getting to the paint and finishing there.
But he was drafted 6th overall as a playmaking centre, and a season with 19 goals and 7 assists is the opposite of the player that pick assumed.
The Physical Game
6-3, 201, and he uses the frame at the net without being a punishing forechecker. 39 penalty minutes.
The Intangibles
49.1 per cent of the expected goals, 47th percentile — the weakest of the club’s regular forwards — with the chances 32.3 to 33.5 against across 878 minutes.
So: the best finishing rate on a team that could not finish, sitting on the worst on-ice rate among its forwards. Both of those will move toward the middle.
4 goals in his last 10. He is 27, the sixth pick in 2017, on his third organisation, and this is the first season he has been genuinely useful. Whether it is repeatable is a real question.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 878 minutes
- Expected goals
- 49.1%
- 47th pct
- Shot attempts
- 51.6%
- 71st 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: 38 for, 32 against. Expected: 32.3 and 33.5.
The eye and the numbers
SightedThe numbers rank him 24 points above where the report does. 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 — 67 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 · 70 games
- Top speed
- 21.9 mph
- 36th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.91 a game
- Distance
- 2.25 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 83.1 mph
- 38th 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
4
points in his last 10 games — 4 goals, 0 assists, 17 shots
Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.
Usual linemates
2025-26 · 878 minutes at five-on-five
- Connor Brown52%
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
- NJD took 50.4% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 49.1% — 1.3 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third line, 878 minutes at five-on-five — 45th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Connor Brown | 46.9% | 51.0% | 50.2% |
| Arseny Gritsyuk | 55.3% | 44.6% | 56.3% |
| Lenni Hameenaho | 49.1% | 49.0% | 46.1% |
46.9% together, 51.0% for him apart and 50.2% for Brown apart. Both were better apart than together — the pairing was doing neither of them any favours.
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
144 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 19 of them goals. His median goal came from 13 feet. 44% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 15% from beyond forty.