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Connor Dewar
Pittsburgh Penguins Center
A fourth-line penalty killer acquired at the deadline, 5-10 and 187, with 46 per cent of his attempts from inside 20 feet.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | MIN | 35 | 2 | 4 | 6 | -4 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 44 | 4.5 | 9:54 |
| 2022-23 | MIN | 81 | 6 | 12 | 18 | -5 | 50 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 87 | 6.9 | 10:58 |
| 2023-24 | MIN/TOR | 74 | 11 | 8 | 19 | -8 | 28 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 77 | 14.3 | 11:39 |
| 2024-25 | TOR/PIT | 48 | 4 | 6 | 10 | -3 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 55 | 7.3 | 11:33 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 238 | 23 | 30 | 53 | -20 | 117 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 263 | 8.8 | 11:09 |
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
4 goals and 6 assists in 48 games across Toronto and Pittsburgh — 10 points at 11:33 a night, minus-3, with 14 penalty minutes.
44.4 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 16th percentile, across 446 minutes. His ice went 10-15 against an expectation of 12.71-15.90 — a fourth line that scored more than its chances and conceded more too.
The Finesse Game
55 attempts at a median of 26 feet with 46 per cent from inside 20, and 4 goals at a 7.3 per cent conversion. He gets to the paint and does not finish, which is the fourth-line bargain.
6 assists in 48 games. There is no offensive game to describe and he has never had one — 53 points in 238 NHL games.
The Physical Game
5-10 and 187 and he plays a hard, honest, small man’s game. He forechecks first, he blocks shots, and he is on the ice for the last two minutes of a one-goal lead.
14 penalty minutes in 48 games. The discipline is why he kills penalties and the club has been short of forwards who can.
The Intangibles
A third-round pick of Minnesota in 2018, 238 NHL games in, and traded twice in fourteen months.
He is 26. He missed part of the season to injury, and a fourth-line penalty killer at league minimum is a useful thing on a club with this much money committed to men over 35.
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
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
“He forechecks first, he blocks shots, and he is on the ice for the last two minutes of a one-goal lead.”
“He forechecks first, he blocks shots, and he is on the ice for the last two minutes of a one-goal lead.”
“He forechecks first, he blocks shots, and he is on the ice for the last two minutes of a one-goal lead.”
“The discipline is why he kills penalties and the club has been short of forwards who can.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 446 minutes
- Expected goals
- 44.4%
- 14th pct
- Shot attempts
- 45.5%
- 15th 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: 10 for, 15 against. Expected: 12.7 and 15.9.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 16 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 — 69 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 · 48 games
- Top speed
- 22.1 mph
- 41st pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.15 a game
- Distance
- 1.84 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 81.3 mph
- 26th 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 TOR · 268 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
- PIT took 49.0% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 44.4% — 4.6 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- 446 minutes at five-on-five — 13th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steven Lorentz | 55.9% | 38.2% | 49.9% |
| Conor Timmins | 55.6% | 40.1% | 52.1% |
| David Kampf | 38.7% | 45.9% | 46.3% |
55.9% together, 38.2% for him apart and 49.9% for Lorentz apart. Both were worse apart, so whatever the two of them had together was doing real work.
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
70 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 4 of them goals. His median goal came from 7 feet. 46% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 21% from beyond forty.