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Colton Sissons

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 fifth line and the penalty kill.

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
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.

hard-minutes· is started in his own end, against the other club's best
32% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 6th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
faceoffsa strength· takes the draw that starts it
“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.”
shot-blockera strength· gets in front of it
“He forechecks properly, he blocks shots, and he finishes checks.”
forechecks-aggressivelya strength· first man in, and on the puck
“He forechecks properly, he blocks shots, and he finishes checks.”
defensively-responsiblea strength· comes back; can be trusted with a lead
“He can be trusted with a lead, he kills penalties, and he is not an agitator.”
penalty-killera strength· trusted a man short
“He can be trusted with a lead, he kills penalties, and he is not an agitator.”
agitatorhe lacks it· gets under the skin; draws the retaliation
“He can be trusted with a lead, he kills penalties, and he is not an agitator.”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 852 minutes

Expected goals: 48%; 35th pct
Shot attempts: 48.2%; 35th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 24 for, 40 against. Expected: 28.9 and 31.3.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

42nd

Numbers

35th

The two rank him within 7 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.

Tracked

NHL Edge, 2024-25 · 72 games

Top speed: 23.3 mph; 95th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 1.35 a game
Distance: 2.37 miles a game
Hardest shot: 88.2 mph; 67th 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.

Usual linemates

2024-25 with NSH · 852 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, 2024-25

The club: NSH took 49.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 48.0% — 1.2 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	42.9%	51.1%	48.0%
Cole Smith	46.6%	48.8%	48.8%
Michael McCarron	45.7%	49.2%	45.4%

42.9% together, 51.1% for him apart and 48.0% 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.