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Conor Timmins

A right-shot depth defenceman on his fourth organisation at 27, with a plus-11 and 15 points.

Season	Team	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	PP	SH	GW	S	S%	TOI

2019-20	COL	2	0	0	0	+2	0	0	0	0	1	0.0	10:25
2020-21	COL	31	0	7	7	+6	8	0	0	0	31	0.0	13:33
2021-22	ARI	6	0	0	0	-6	0	0	0	0	5	0.0	17:45
2022-23	ARI/TOR	27	2	12	14	-1	8	0	0	1	19	10.5	15:06
2023-24	TOR	25	1	9	10	+9	18	0	0	0	25	4.0	16:01
2024-25	TOR/PIT	68	3	12	15	+11	30	0	0	0	69	4.3	16:55
2025-26 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	159	6	40	46	+21	64	0	0	1	150	4.0	15:46

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

3 goals and 12 assists in 68 games for 15 points, plus-11, on 16:55 a night between Toronto and Buffalo.

68 games is comfortably a career high for a defenceman whose seasons have usually been interrupted. The plus-11 came largely in Toronto and should be read as the club rather than the player.

The Finesse Game

The puck game is the reason he keeps getting jobs. He moves it early and accurately, he sees an outlet under pressure, and he was a genuine offensive prospect in junior before the injuries.

69 shots in 68 games and 3 goals; the offence has never translated. What survives is a defenceman who does not stall a breakout, which is a real third-pair skill.

The Physical Game

6-3 and 213, and he does not use it. He defends with position and stick and is not a factor in front of his own net.

30 penalty minutes over 68 games. The concussions earlier in his career are the reason four organisations have had him and none has kept him long.

The Intangibles

A second-round pick whose first three professional seasons were largely lost to injury, and who has made himself into a serviceable NHL defenceman anyway.

The projection is a seventh defenceman who plays 50 games. On a blue line this crowded at the top and this thin behind it, that is a genuinely useful thing to have.

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.

transitiona strength· carries it out; gains the line under control
“He moves it early and accurately, he sees an outlet under pressure”
defends-with-reacha strength· takes the puck before the contact happens
“He defends with position and stick”
clears-the-creasehe lacks it· moves grown men off the front of his net
“He defends with position and stick and is not a factor in front of his own net.”
punishinghe lacks it· finishes checks; hurts people legally
“6-3 and 213, and he does not use it.”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 962 minutes

Expected goals: 52.5%; 74th pct
Shot attempts: 51.9%; 72nd pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 37 for, 28 against. Expected: 39.6 and 35.8.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

13th

Numbers

74th

The numbers rank him 61 points above where the report does. 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 — 65 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 · 68 games

Top speed: 20.8 mph; 19th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.24 a game
Distance: 2.43 miles a game
Hardest shot: 94.5 mph; 75th 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 TOR · 740 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 52.5% — 3.5 above the club he did it on.
The role: 962 minutes at five-on-five — 56th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Simon Benoit	46.8%	56.8%	43.2%
William Nylander	51.9%	52.7%	50.3%
Max Domi	52.2%	52.5%	47.3%

46.8% together, 56.8% for him apart and 43.2% for Benoit apart. He was carrying it: the share stayed with him and left Benoit behind.

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

109 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 3 of them goals. His median goal came from 26 feet. 6% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 78% from beyond forty.