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Cole Schwindt
Florida Panthers Center #79
5 goals in 29 games from the fourth line, and 3 in his last 10.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | FLA | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0.0 | 14:08 |
| 2023-24 | CGY | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 | 6:48 |
| 2024-25 | VGK | 42 | 1 | 7 | 8 | +3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 3.1 | 9:15 |
| 2025-26 | FLA | 29 | 5 | 2 | 7 | +2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 20.0 | 10:02 |
| 2026-27 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 78 | 6 | 9 | 15 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 61 | 9.8 | 9:36 |
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
5 goals and 2 assists in 29 games — 7 points, plus-2, at 10:02 a night with 2 penalty minutes. 5 points in his last 10, 3 of them goals.
The Finesse Game
Efficient in a small sample. 41 unblocked attempts, 5 goals, median 23 feet with 41 per cent inside 20 — good ice and a high conversion that will not hold.
15 points in 78 career games. He is a bottom-6 forward who occasionally finishes.
The Physical Game
6-3, 210, and he uses the frame on the forecheck without seeking contact. 2 penalty minutes in 29 games is a very clean season.
The Intangibles
277 5-on-5 minutes, which is thin, and the split inside it is odd: 52.4 per cent of the expected goals, 55th percentile, against only 49.0 per cent of the shot attempts, 46th.
The goals went 13-11 in his favour, one of the few Florida forwards not eaten by the goaltending.
He is 25, a third-round pick who came over in the Matthew Tkachuk trade, and this is a thirteenth-forward job on a club with no room. Ask again after 50 games.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 277 minutes
- Expected goals
- 52.4%
- 74th pct
- Shot attempts
- 49%
- 47th 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: 13 for, 11 against. Expected: 9.3 and 8.5.
The eye and the numbers
SightedThe numbers rank him 55 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 — 66 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 · 29 games
- Top speed
- 21.3 mph
- 16th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.79 a game
- Distance
- 1.68 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 81.5 mph
- 28th 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 14 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first
5
points in his last 10 games — 3 goals, 2 assists, 18 shots
Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.
Usual linemates
2025-26 · 268 minutes at five-on-five
- Luke Kuninoff the roster23%
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 52.4% — 2.0 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- 277 minutes at five-on-five — 5th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anthony-John (AJ) Greer | 64.2% | 43.8% | 53.3% |
| Donovan Sebrango | 44.8% | 56.0% | 47.9% |
| Jeff Petry | 64.1% | 47.4% | 50.8% |
64.2% together, 43.8% for him apart and 53.3% for (AJ) Greer 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
41 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 5 of them goals. His median goal came from 24 feet. 44% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 20% from beyond forty.