Colin Blackwell

5-8, a 194th overall, and 368 NHL games.

Season	Team	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	PP	SH	GW	S	S%	TOI

2018-19	NSH	6	0	0	0	-1	2	0	0	0	5	0.0	9:44
2019-20	NSH	27	3	7	10	+7	10	0	0	0	31	9.7	10:57
2020-21	NYR	47	12	10	22	+2	15	3	0	2	64	18.8	14:00
2021-22	SEA/TOR	58	10	10	20	0	14	0	2	1	77	13.0	11:56
2022-23	CHI	53	2	8	10	-16	6	0	0	0	53	3.8	11:48
2023-24	CHI	44	8	4	12	-2	10	1	0	2	88	9.1	14:30
2024-25	DAL	63	6	11	17	+4	16	0	2	0	63	9.5	11:34
2025-26	DAL	70	4	11	15	-2	40	0	0	1	61	6.6	11:54
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	368	45	61	106	-8	113	4	4	6	442	10.2	12:18

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

4 goals and 11 assists in 70 games — 15 points, minus-2, at 11:54 a night with 40 penalty minutes.

The Finesse Game

Thin. 100 unblocked attempts from a median of 29 feet, 4 goals, with only 32 per cent from inside 20 — one of the few Dallas forwards whose shot chart does not point at the net.

106 points in 368 career games. He is not here to score.

The Physical Game

5-8 and 181 pounds, and 40 penalty minutes in 11 minutes a night. That rate, at that size, is the entire report: he forechecks hard, finishes checks on men who outweigh him by 40 pounds, and does not back away from anything.

The Intangibles

45.8 per cent of the expected goals, 20th percentile, in 697 minutes — fourth-line results on a club whose fourth line was outshot by design.

6 points in his last 10.

He is 33, a 194th overall pick out of Harvard, and he has made 368 NHL games out of a body nobody would have bet on. That is the story, and there is no version of the arithmetic that captures it.

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.

perimeter· shoots from the outside, by choice or because he cannot get in
28.0% of his attempts from 40 feet or beyond, 90th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 697 minutes

Expected goals: 45.8%; 21st pct
Shot attempts: 47.1%; 28th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 22 for, 25 against. Expected: 20.1 and 23.8.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

27th

Numbers

21st

The two rank him within 6 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 — 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.

Tracked

NHL Edge, 2025-26 · 70 games

Top speed: 22.8 mph; 78th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 1.33 a game
Distance: 1.92 miles a game
Hardest shot: 84.2 mph; 46th pct

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

points in his last 10 games — 1 goals, 5 assists, 17 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 697 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: DAL took 50.5% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 45.8% — 4.7 below the club he did it on.
The role: Fourth line, 697 minutes at five-on-five — 30th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Radek Faksa	46.1%	45.6%	39.6%
Justin Hryckowian	42.1%	47.7%	52.5%
Esa Lindell	49.4%	44.1%	55.1%

46.1% together, 45.6% for him apart and 39.6% for Faksa apart. Faksa was worse away from him while his own share held — the pairing was doing more for Faksa 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

100 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 4 of them goals. His median goal came from 16 feet. 32% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 27% from beyond forty.