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Cole Schwindt
Florida Panthers Center
8 points in 42 games, and a fourth-line centre who has never taken a penalty.
| 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 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 49 | 1 | 7 | 8 | -2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 2.8 | 9:21 |
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
1 goal and 7 assists in 42 games for 8 points, plus-3, on 9:15 a night with Calgary.
32 shots in 42 games and 0 penalty minutes across the whole season, which is the most unusual line in this chapter.
The Finesse Game
Limited. 8 points in 42 games is a fourth-line total and there is nothing in three professional seasons to suggest more.
He makes the simple play, supports the puck, and does not turn it over. On a club whose fourth line has to be able to hold a lead, that is the requirement.
The Physical Game
6-3 and 210, and honest without being punishing. He wins some pucks below the goal line and does not initiate.
0 penalty minutes in 42 games is remarkable and it is the single most useful thing about him for a club that carries two enforcers.
The Intangibles
A third-round pick, part of the Matthew Tkachuk trade, and a fourth-line centre at 24 who came back to the organisation that traded him.
The projection is a thirteenth forward. On a club with this much depth, that is the ceiling and it is a real NHL job.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 368 minutes
- Expected goals
- 53.5%
- 83rd pct
- Shot attempts
- 45.6%
- 14th 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: 27 for, 16 against. Expected: 15.8 and 13.7.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 57 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 — 68 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 VGK · 368 minutes at five-on-five
- Alexander Holtz43%
- Tanner Pearsonnow WPG39%
- Keegan Kolesar26%
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
- VGK took 53.5% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 53.5% — level with the club he did it on.
- The role
- 368 minutes at five-on-five — 9th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alexander Holtz | 52.2% | 54.4% | 49.9% |
| Tanner Pearson | 47.3% | 57.3% | 50.4% |
| Noah Hanifin | 56.0% | 52.0% | 55.7% |
52.2% together, 54.4% for him apart and 49.9% for Holtz apart. Splitting them up moved neither man. Whatever is driving the share, it is not this pairing.
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
49 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 0 of them goals. 47% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 12% from beyond forty.