Colton Dach
Edmonton Oilers Center
A 6-4 winger with a decent set of hands who has spent 3 years being almost ready.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | CHI | 25 | 2 | 5 | 7 | -3 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 7.4 | 12:08 |
| 2025-26 | CHI/EDM | 61 | 5 | 8 | 13 | -15 | 52 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 58 | 8.6 | 11:29 |
| 2026-27 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 86 | 7 | 13 | 20 | -18 | 69 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 85 | 8.2 | 11:40 |
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 13 points in 61 games across Chicago and Edmonton, on about 11 minutes a night. Through 86 career games he has 20 points, which is a bottom-6 rate.
The Finesse Game
Better hands than the frame suggests. He can make a play in tight, he protects the puck well below the goal line, and he has enough of a shot to score from the slot when the puck finds him there.
What he lacks is pace. He is not a quick skater, and against NHL defensemen that means the extra half-second he needs to make his play is not there. Most of his offense comes from getting to the net and from second chances rather than from anything he creates himself.
The Physical Game
6-4 and 218, and this is the part of his game that will keep him employed. He forechecks hard, is difficult to move off the puck, and is comfortable in the traffic that smaller skilled players avoid.
The Intangibles
Chicago’s second-round pick in 2021, and injuries have taken chunks out of 3 of his development years. He is 23, which is still young enough for a big forward.
The path is a straightforward one: be the heavy, competent third-line winger who can take a shift with skilled centers and not sink it. He is close to that and has not held it down for a full season yet.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 652 minutes
- Expected goals
- 43.9%
- 10th pct
- Shot attempts
- 47.4%
- 30th 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: 15 for, 27 against. Expected: 19.6 and 25.1.
The eye and the numbers
SightedThe report ranks him 45 points above where the numbers do. 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 — 73 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 · 61 games
- Top speed
- 22.6 mph
- 68th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.90 a game
- Distance
- 1.92 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 83.1 mph
- 38th 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
6
points in his last 10 games — 2 goals, 4 assists, 13 shots
Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.
Usual linemates
2025-26 with CHI · 573 minutes at five-on-five
- Ryan Donato35%
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
- EDM took 51.6% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 43.9% — 7.7 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- 652 minutes at five-on-five — 27th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wyatt Kaiser | 38.6% | 46.6% | 44.9% |
| Ryan Donato | 38.5% | 46.0% | 44.9% |
| Connor Murphy | 54.1% | 40.2% | 45.5% |
38.6% together, 46.6% for him apart and 44.9% for Kaiser apart. Both were better apart than together — the pairing was doing neither of them any favours.
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
109 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 5 of them goals. His median goal came from 17 feet. 38% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 22% from beyond forty.