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Connor Brown
New Jersey Devils Right Wing
30 points and a plus-9, and a checking winger signed off a Cup final run.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-16 | TOR | 7 | 1 | 5 | 6 | -2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 9.1 | 14:58 |
| 2016-17 | TOR | 82 | 20 | 16 | 36 | +3 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 139 | 14.4 | 16:12 |
| 2017-18 | TOR | 82 | 14 | 14 | 28 | 0 | 18 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 119 | 11.8 | 15:01 |
| 2018-19 | TOR | 82 | 8 | 21 | 29 | +11 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 85 | 9.4 | 13:48 |
| 2019-20 | OTT | 71 | 16 | 27 | 43 | -6 | 24 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 173 | 9.3 | 20:07 |
| 2020-21 | OTT | 56 | 21 | 14 | 35 | +1 | 12 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 123 | 17.1 | 18:15 |
| 2021-22 | OTT | 64 | 10 | 29 | 39 | -15 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 121 | 8.3 | 20:03 |
| 2022-23 | WSH | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.0 | 16:46 |
| 2023-24 | EDM | 71 | 4 | 8 | 12 | -8 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 108 | 3.7 | 12:48 |
| 2024-25 | EDM | 82 | 13 | 17 | 30 | +9 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 123 | 10.6 | 14:01 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 601 | 107 | 151 | 258 | -10 | 110 | 8 | 9 | 12 | 1004 | 10.7 | 16:04 |
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
13 goals and 17 assists in 82 games for 30 points, plus-9, on 14:01 a night with Edmonton, including a shorthanded goal and 4 game-winners.
123 shots and 13 goals at 10.6 per cent. 82 games after a knee reconstruction that cost him most of a season two years ago, which is the useful part.
The Finesse Game
Quick and honest and short of finish. The hands work at pace and the release is ordinary, and 30 points is close to what he has produced in each healthy season since his mid-twenties.
17 assists is fair. The value is in arriving first, forechecking, and not losing the puck in dangerous places.
The Physical Game
6 feet and 184, and light. He forechecks with real speed and is honest on the wall without winning much by force.
10 penalty minutes over 82 games is exceptional discipline and it is the most useful line in his record for a club that kills at the 7th-best rate.
The Intangibles
A sixth-round pick, five organisations, a knee reconstruction that nearly ended the career, and two consecutive Cup finals in a bottom-six role.
At 32 the projection is 25 points and genuinely good penalty killing. New Jersey needed a third-line winger who defends and bought one cheaply.
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
- ordinaryraised, and called ordinary
- 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.
- disciplined· stays out of the box
0.12 penalty minutes a game over 82, 5th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.75) · 35% keep it
- durable· was available
82 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
“The value is in arriving first, forechecking, and not losing the puck in dangerous places.”
“He forechecks with real speed and is honest on the wall without winning much by force.”
“10 penalty minutes over 82 games is exceptional discipline and it is the most useful line in his record for a club that kills at the 7th-best rate.”
“At 32 the projection is 25 points and genuinely good penalty killing.”
“New Jersey needed a third-line winger who defends and bought one cheaply.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 934 minutes
- Expected goals
- 50.5%
- 58th pct
- Shot attempts
- 48.3%
- 36th 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: 33 for, 32 against. Expected: 35.6 and 34.9.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 18 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 — 77 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 · 82 games
- Top speed
- 22.6 mph
- 67th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.77 a game
- Distance
- 2.42 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 87.3 mph
- 62nd 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 with EDM · 934 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
- EDM took 54.3% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 50.5% — 3.8 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third line, 934 minutes at five-on-five — 51st percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mattias Janmark | 49.6% | 51.3% | 44.7% |
| Adam Henrique | 45.1% | 54.1% | 47.5% |
| Darnell Nurse | 52.5% | 49.3% | 54.0% |
49.6% together, 51.3% for him apart and 44.7% for Janmark apart. Janmark was worse away from him while his own share held — the pairing was doing more for Janmark 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
169 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 13 of them goals. His median goal came from 13 feet. 40% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 20% from beyond forty.