Armchair Hockey Scout Beta

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Cody Glass

New Jersey Devils Center

22 points and a 54.3 per cent chance share, and a former first-round pick on his third organisation.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2019-20VGK395712-76101519.813:22
2020-21VGK274610+684002814.314:32
2021-22NSH80110000090.011:25
2022-23NSH72142135+92060213110.714:46
2023-24NSH416713-920001827.313:26
2024-25PIT/NJD6561622-516101916.613:39
2025-26 so far
Career252355893-67012053928.913:55

This Season So Far

The 2025-26 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

6 goals and 16 assists in 65 games for 22 points, minus-5, on 13:39 a night.

54.3 per cent at five-on-five, the 88th percentile — the third-best figure among the club’s forwards. His on-ice goals were 29-31 against an expected 28.6-24.1, so the results ran worse than the play.

The Finesse Game

A skilled, patient centre whose value has never shown up in a box score. 91 shots and 6 goals at 6.6 per cent, and 16 assists — the finishing has never arrived at any level of professional hockey.

The passing and the puck protection are genuinely good and the chance share says the shifts go the right way. He does not shoot enough and defers when a play is available.

The Physical Game

6-3 and 201, and he does not play to it. He protects the puck adequately and does not forecheck with weight or win many battles below the goal line.

16 penalty minutes over 65 games. Disciplined and rarely involved.

The Intangibles

A 6th overall pick, three organisations, and a career of being useful in ways that do not get a player paid.

At 26 the projection is a third-line centre who tilts the ice and scores 25 points. That is genuinely valuable and it is not what a 6th overall pick was supposed to be.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 710 minutes

Expected goals
54.3%
88th pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
54.8%
91st pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 29 for, 31 against. Expected: 28.6 and 24.1.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight
Report
47th
Numbers
88th

The numbers rank him 41 points above where the report does. It was written for a back edition, with the seasons that followed already known. Neither the agreement nor the gap says anything about the eye, and this report is excluded from the club-level comparison for the same reason. 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 357 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 72 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.

Usual linemates

2024-25 with PIT · 576 minutes at five-on-five

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, 2024-25

The club
NJD took 50.7% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 54.3% — 3.6 above the club he did it on.
The role
710 minutes at five-on-five — 28th percentile in ice time.

With and without

TeammateTogetherHim apartMate apart
Michael Bunting58.5%52.4%49.4%
Erik Karlsson57.8%52.6%46.7%
Matt Grzelcyk55.3%54.0%45.6%

58.5% together, 52.4% for him apart and 49.4% for Bunting apart. Both were worse apart, so whatever the two of them had together was doing real work.

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

141 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 6 of them goals. His median goal came from 19 feet. 31% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 17% from beyond forty.