Conor Geekie

Six-foot-four and 20 years old, and 43 per cent of his shot attempts from inside 20 feet in a rookie season.

Season	Team	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	PP	SH	GW	S	S%	TOI
2024-25	TBL	52	8	6	14	-4	16	1	0	3	60	13.3	12:20
2025-26 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	52	8	6	14	-4	16	1	0	3	60	13.3	12:20

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

8 goals and 6 assists in 52 games — 14 points at 12:20 a night, minus-4, with 3 game-winning goals and 16 penalty minutes on 60 shots.

47.3 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 25th percentile, across 589 minutes. His ice went 20-22 against an expectation of 20.48-22.86, which for a 20-year-old on a fourth line is a fair line.

The Finesse Game

60 attempts at a median of 24 feet with 43 per cent from inside 20, converting at 13.3 per cent. He plays in the middle of the ice and the shot is a genuine one.

6 assists in 52 games. The passing has not shown up yet at this level and it was the better half of his junior game, which is the thing to watch.

The Physical Game

6-4 and 212 and still filling out. He protects the puck below the goal line, he goes to the net, and he is difficult to move once he is set.

16 penalty minutes in 52 games. He is disciplined and he is not yet strong enough to impose himself on NHL defencemen the way the frame suggests he eventually will.

The Intangibles

Eleventh overall in 2022 by Arizona, and acquired by Tampa Bay in the 2024 trade that sent Mikhail Sergachev to Utah — along with J.J. Moser.

52 NHL games. He is 21 and the most valuable young forward in an organisation that has not had one for a decade.

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.

net-fronta strength· lives in the blue paint; the screens and the tips
“He plays in the middle of the ice and the shot is a genuine one.”
wins-the-walla strength· the corners and below the goal line
“He protects the puck below the goal line, he goes to the net, and he is difficult to move once he is set.”
hard-to-movea strength· cannot be shifted from where he decides to stand
“He protects the puck below the goal line, he goes to the net, and he is difficult to move once he is set.”
playmakerhe lacks it· passes up the shot a scorer takes
“The passing has not shown up yet at this level and it was the better half of his junior game, which is the thing to watch.”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 589 minutes

Expected goals: 47.3%; 29th pct
Shot attempts: 50%; 52nd pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 20 for, 22 against. Expected: 20.5 and 22.9.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

55th

Numbers

29th

The report ranks him 26 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 · 52 games

Top speed: 22.4 mph; 57th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 1.71 a game
Distance: 2.06 miles a game
Hardest shot: 93.3 mph; 92nd 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 · 589 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: TBL took 50.8% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 47.3% — 3.5 below the club he did it on.
The role: Fourth line, 589 minutes at five-on-five — 22nd percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Brandon Hagel	54.4%	40.7%	57.0%
Anthony Cirelli	54.7%	41.0%	58.4%
Ryan McDonagh	46.2%	48.0%	53.6%

54.4% together, 40.7% for him apart and 57.0% for Hagel apart. He was worse away from Hagel, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Hagel did.

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

90 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 8 of them goals. His median goal came from 21 feet. 44% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 12% from beyond forty.