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Colton Sissons
Vegas Golden Knights Center
Eleven seasons, 690 games, and a fourth-line centre who came in the Nicolas Hague trade.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-14 | NSH | 17 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 7.7 | 10:37 |
| 2015-16 | NSH | 34 | 4 | 2 | 6 | +5 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 16.0 | 9:58 |
| 2016-17 | NSH | 58 | 8 | 2 | 10 | +11 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 42 | 19.1 | 11:07 |
| 2017-18 | NSH | 81 | 9 | 18 | 27 | +2 | 42 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 120 | 7.5 | 16:06 |
| 2018-19 | NSH | 75 | 15 | 15 | 30 | +20 | 23 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 111 | 13.5 | 16:03 |
| 2019-20 | NSH | 57 | 9 | 6 | 15 | -2 | 20 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 52 | 17.3 | 14:20 |
| 2020-21 | NSH | 54 | 8 | 7 | 15 | +2 | 18 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 58 | 13.8 | 14:21 |
| 2021-22 | NSH | 79 | 7 | 21 | 28 | +2 | 30 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 87 | 8.1 | 16:10 |
| 2022-23 | NSH | 82 | 12 | 18 | 30 | -4 | 20 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 87 | 13.8 | 15:50 |
| 2023-24 | NSH | 81 | 15 | 20 | 35 | -6 | 38 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 131 | 11.5 | 16:34 |
| 2024-25 | NSH | 72 | 7 | 14 | 21 | -12 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 80 | 8.8 | 14:22 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 690 | 95 | 126 | 221 | +18 | 241 | 6 | 7 | 13 | 806 | 11.8 | 14:48 |
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
7 goals and 14 assists in 72 games for Nashville — 21 points at 14:22 a night, minus-12, with 22 penalty minutes on 80 shots.
Nashville finished 31st in goals for and 27th in goals against, so a minus-12 from a fourth-line centre there is close to unreadable. Twenty-one points is roughly his career rate.
The Finesse Game
80 attempts and 7 goals at 8.8 per cent. 221 points in 690 career games is the whole offensive record.
14 assists. He makes the correct first pass out of his own end and nothing more ambitious, and he wins the draw that begins the shift — which is the job and has been for a decade.
The Physical Game
6-1 and 200 and he plays a hard, honest game. He forechecks properly, he blocks shots, and he finishes checks.
22 penalty minutes in 72 games is a low rate. He can be trusted with a lead, he kills penalties, and he is not an agitator.
The Intangibles
A second-round pick in 2012 and 690 games, all of it in Nashville, where he was an alternate captain and scored a hat-trick in a Conference Final.
He is 32. Vegas acquired him in the summer with Jeremy Lauzon in the trade that sent Nicolas Hague to Nashville, and the job is the fourth line and the penalty kill.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 852 minutes
- Expected goals
- 48.2%
- 34th pct
- Shot attempts
- 48.5%
- 37th 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: 35 for, 40 against. Expected: 30.2 and 32.4.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 8 points of one another. 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.
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 — 71 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 NSH · 852 minutes at five-on-five
- Cole Smith35%
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
- NSH took 49.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 48.2% — 1.0 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third line, 852 minutes at five-on-five — 41st percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brady Skjei | 43.7% | 51.1% | 47.7% |
| Cole Smith | 46.4% | 49.3% | 49.7% |
| Michael McCarron | 49.3% | 47.6% | 46.8% |
43.7% together, 51.1% for him apart and 47.7% for Skjei 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
118 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 7 of them goals. His median goal came from 14 feet. 49% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 19% from beyond forty.