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| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-21 | MTL | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | -1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 30 | 13.3 | 13:58 |
| 2021-22 | MTL | 67 | 23 | 20 | 43 | -24 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 188 | 12.2 | 16:41 |
| 2022-23 | MTL | 46 | 26 | 10 | 36 | -10 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 158 | 16.5 | 18:03 |
| 2023-24 | MTL | 82 | 28 | 37 | 65 | -4 | 16 | 9 | 0 | 7 | 314 | 8.9 | 19:25 |
| 2024-25 | MTL | 82 | 37 | 33 | 70 | +9 | 14 | 10 | 0 | 8 | 240 | 15.4 | 18:05 |
| 2025-26 | MTL | 81 | 51 | 37 | 88 | +29 | 14 | 11 | 0 | 12 | 258 | 19.8 | 18:11 |
| 2026-27 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 368 | 169 | 138 | 307 | -1 | 58 | 42 | 0 | 35 | 1188 | 14.2 | 18:02 |
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
51 goals and 88 points in 81 games on 258 shots, plus-29, 11 on the power play. 50 goals from a player this size, in this era, is a genuinely rare thing.
The Finesse Game
The shot is the entire argument and it is one of the two or three best in the league. It is not the heaviest — it is the quickest. He changes the puck’s angle with his hands rather than his feet and releases it before a goaltender has finished setting, from spots where nobody is expecting a shot to come.
The other half is where he goes. He finds the soft ice between a defenceman and a winger, holds still while the play develops, and appears at the back post at the exact moment the seam opens. That is a learned skill and he has gotten better at it every season.
He is not a playmaker and does not pretend to be. 37 assists on a line with 100-point centre is about right.
The Physical Game
5-8 and 175, and there is no physical component to his game at all. 14 penalty minutes in a full season describes a player who never engages. He is removed from pucks along the wall by anyone who tries, and he does not go to the interior except to shoot.
That has to be accepted rather than fixed. He scores 50 goals; nobody needs him to win a battle.
The Intangibles
Drafted fifteenth because of his size after scoring at a rate nobody had matched in college, and he has spent 6 years proving the size was the wrong thing to worry about.
He has played 83 percent of his minutes with the same centre for years. That is the one dependency worth naming, and it is a very good problem.
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.
- disciplined· stays out of the box
0.17 penalty minutes a game over 81, 10th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.75) · 35% keep it
- durable· was available
81 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
- drives-play· the shot clock turns his way while he is out there
54.1% of the expected goals at five-on-five with him on, 47.9% for his club in the minutes he sat: +6.2, 94th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats moderately (0.39) · 29% keep it
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1,097 minutes
- Expected goals
- 54.1%
- 83rd pct
- Shot attempts
- 53%
- 81st 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: 66 for, 38 against. Expected: 56.3 and 47.9.
The eye and the numbers
SightedThe two rank him within 5 points of one another. It was written with these numbers on screen, so the agreement is not corroboration — the arithmetic is on both sides of it.
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 — 77 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 · 81 games
- Top speed
- 22.6 mph
- 67th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.11 a game
- Distance
- 2.95 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 88.0 mph
- 69th 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
13
points in his last 10 games — 8 goals, 5 assists, 43 shots
Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.
Usual linemates
2025-26 · 1097 minutes at five-on-five
- Nick Suzuki92%
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
- MTL took 49.8% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 54.1% — 4.3 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- First line, 1,097 minutes at five-on-five — 71st percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Juraj Slafkovský | 55.9% | 52.1% | 45.5% |
| Mike Matheson | 50.6% | 57.4% | 44.3% |
| Noah Dobson | 51.3% | 56.7% | 45.0% |
55.9% together, 52.1% for him apart and 45.5% for Slafkovský 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
388 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 57 of them goals. His median goal came from 18 feet. 46% of his shots came from inside twenty feet.