This is the 2025-26 edition — an archived read. Read the 2026-27 report →
| 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 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 25 | 2 | 5 | 7 | -3 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 7.4 | 12:08 |
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
2 goals and 5 assists in 25 games for 7 points, minus-3, on 12:08 a night.
41.4 per cent at five-on-five, the 5th percentile, over 289 minutes — a team number in a small sample. 54 per cent of his shots came from inside 20 feet at a median of 15, which is the useful observation.
The Finesse Game
Modest and correctly directed. 27 shots in 25 games is low volume and all of it comes from close range; the hands are functional in tight and there is no rush game.
5 assists in 25 games is not enough to judge. Nothing suggests a scorer.
The Physical Game
6-4 and 218, and this is the case for him. He goes to the net, wins pucks below the goal line, and is difficult to move once he decides where to stand.
17 penalty minutes in 25 games is a high rate and reads as a young player finding the edge.
The Intangibles
A second-round pick, a brother in the league, a serious shoulder injury that cost him a full season, and a first NHL stretch at 22.
The realistic projection is a third-line net-front forward. On a club with this much ice time available he will get a real chance to become 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.
- a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed
- he lacks itraised, and he does not have it
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.
“He goes to the net, wins pucks below the goal line, and is difficult to move once he decides where to stand.”
“He goes to the net, wins pucks below the goal line, and is difficult to move once he decides where to stand.”
“is difficult to move once he decides where to stand”
“the hands are functional in tight and there is no rush game”
“17 penalty minutes in 25 games is a high rate and reads as a young player finding the edge.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 289 minutes
- Expected goals
- 41.4%
- 5th pct
- Shot attempts
- 41%
- 2nd 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: 12 for, 14 against. Expected: 9.5 and 13.4.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe report ranks him 50 points above where the numbers do. 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 637 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, 2024-25 · 25 games
- Top speed
- 21.7 mph
- 27th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.84 a game
- Distance
- 2.00 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 81.8 mph
- 27th 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 83.9
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.
Usual linemates
2024-25 · 289 minutes at five-on-five
- Frank Nazar46%
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
- CHI took 43.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 41.4% — 1.8 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- 289 minutes at five-on-five — 5th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frank Nazar | 41.4% | 41.3% | 43.1% |
| Connor Bedard | 43.9% | 40.0% | 41.6% |
| Alex Vlasic | 44.5% | 39.7% | 42.5% |
41.4% together, 41.3% for him apart and 43.1% for Nazar 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
39 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 2 of them goals. His median goal came from 12 feet. 54% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 13% from beyond forty.