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Cole Reinhardt

Florida Panthers Left Wing

9 goals in 59 games, and the 4th percentile underneath them.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2021-22OTT10000200010.08:35
2024-25OTT17112-415000137.78:12
2025-26VGK/FLA599615-2210024918.410:39
2026-27 so far—————————————
Career—7710717-6380026315.910:05

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

9 goals and 6 assists in 59 games — 15 points, minus-2, at 10:39 a night. His 5-on-5 work was done in Vegas. 8 points in his last 10, 6 of them goals.

The Finesse Game

More scoring than the role implies. 76 unblocked attempts, 9 goals, median 26 feet with 38 per cent inside 20 — a strong conversion for a fourth-liner getting 10 minutes.

6 assists in 59 games is the whole of the playmaking. 17 points in 77 career games.

The Physical Game

6-1, 207, and he forechecks hard. 21 penalty minutes.

The speed is honest rather than exceptional, and at this level that is usually the difference between a fourth line and the American League.

The Intangibles

The numbers underneath are alarming: 43.8 per cent of the expected goals, 10th percentile, and 44.3 per cent of the shot attempts, 6th, across 616 minutes on a good team. The chances ran 19.0 to 24.4 against.

So: 9 goals and a run of 6 in 10, sitting on top of one of the worst on-ice rates in the league.

Both are real and the sample sizes point in opposite directions. 600 minutes of possession is a firmer number than 9 goals. He is 26, a 181st overall pick, and this is a thirteenth-forward job.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 616 minutes

Expected goals
43.8%
10th pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
44.3%
9th pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 21 for, 22 against. Expected: 19.0 and 24.4.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted
Report
15th
Numbers
10th

The 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 — 65 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 · 59 games

Top speed
23.0 mph
84th pct

fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.2

Bursts over 20 mph
2.32 a game

how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes

Distance
1.77 miles a game

skated, all strengths

Hardest shot
85.1 mph
52nd pct

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

8

points in his last 10 games — 6 goals, 2 assists, 17 shots

Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.

Usual linemates

2025-26 with VGK · 424 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, 2025-26

The club
FLA took 50.4% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 43.8% — 6.6 below the club he did it on.
The role
616 minutes at five-on-five — 25th percentile in ice time.

With and without

TeammateTogetherHim apartMate apart
Colton Sissons45.5%43.0%51.0%
Keegan Kolesar46.7%42.4%47.6%
Kaedan Korczak52.5%40.9%55.7%

45.5% together, 43.0% for him apart and 51.0% for Sissons apart. Sissons was better away from him while his own share held, which is a mark against him more than for 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

76 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 9 of them goals. His median goal came from 11 feet. 38% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 24% from beyond forty.