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Corey Perry

19 goals at 40 on a 19 per cent rate, and a fifth Stanley Cup final appearance in six years.

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

2005-06	ANA	56	13	12	25	+1	50	4	0	2	98	13.3	11:34
2006-07	ANA	82	17	27	44	+12	55	4	0	3	194	8.8	12:28
2007-08	ANA	70	29	25	54	+12	108	11	0	4	200	14.5	17:57
2008-09	ANA	78	32	40	72	+10	109	10	0	8	283	11.3	18:36
2009-10	ANA	82	27	49	76	0	111	6	1	2	270	10.0	21:04
2010-11	ANA	82	50	48	98	+9	104	14	4	11	290	17.2	22:19
2011-12	ANA	80	37	23	60	-7	127	14	1	6	277	13.4	21:23
2012-13	ANA	44	15	21	36	+10	72	5	0	5	128	11.7	19:04
2013-14	ANA	81	43	39	82	+32	65	8	0	9	280	15.4	19:29
2014-15	ANA	67	33	22	55	+13	67	4	0	3	193	17.1	18:06
2015-16	ANA	82	34	28	62	+2	68	12	0	6	215	15.8	17:42
2016-17	ANA	82	19	34	53	+2	76	5	0	3	215	8.8	17:43
2017-18	ANA	71	17	32	49	-4	71	4	0	1	168	10.1	17:47
2018-19	ANA	31	6	4	10	-16	27	2	0	1	59	10.2	14:49
2019-20	DAL	57	5	16	21	-2	70	1	0	0	77	6.5	13:43
2020-21	MTL	49	9	12	21	-4	39	1	0	1	62	14.5	13:44
2021-22	TBL	82	19	21	40	+9	66	6	0	4	153	12.4	13:31
2022-23	TBL	81	12	13	25	-28	95	6	0	3	116	10.3	11:34
2023-24	CHI/EDM	54	12	10	22	-6	46	3	0	2	82	14.6	13:23
2024-25	EDM	81	19	11	30	+12	61	4	0	4	100	19.0	11:56
2025-26 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	1392	448	487	935	+57	1487	124	6	78	3460	13.0	16:35

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

19 goals and 11 assists in 81 games for 30 points, plus-12, on 11:56 a night with Edmonton.

19 per cent shooting on 100 shots at 40 years old. 19 goals in twelve minutes a night is an extraordinary rate and it is the fourth consecutive season in which he has produced more than the role should allow.

The Finesse Game

Everything happens within fifteen feet of the net. He deflects, he collects, he finds the seam in a box, and the hands in tight are still among the better ones in the league for that specific job.

100 shots in 81 games is very low volume and 11 assists says he creates nothing. The entire offensive contribution is standing in a place nobody wants to stand and being ready.

The Physical Game

6-3 and 210, and the physical game is the last thing that will leave. He cross-checks, he agitates, he takes punishment in the crease and gives it back, and he remains one of the most genuinely disliked opponents in hockey.

61 penalty minutes over 81 games at 40. The skating went a decade ago and none of the value ever depended on it.

The Intangibles

Twenty seasons, a Hart, a Cup, and five appearances in a final with four different clubs in six years. That is not a coincidence and nobody has satisfactorily explained it.

At 40 the projection is 12 goals and an April in which he is more useful than in the 82 games before it. Los Angeles has been eliminated in the first round four years running by a heavier team; this is a direct response.

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.

slot-man· shoots from where goals are scored
64.2% of his attempts in the slot, 90th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.69) · 44% keep it
durable· was available
81 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
sheltered· is started in the attacking end
64% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 94th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 47% keep it
net-fronta strength· lives in the blue paint; the screens and the tips
“He deflects, he collects, he finds the seam in a box, and the hands in tight are still among the better ones in the league for that specific job.”
agitatora strength· gets under the skin; draws the retaliation
“He cross-checks, he agitates, he takes punishment in the crease and gives it back, and he remains one of the most genuinely disliked opponents in hockey.”
nastya strength· hard to play against; the edge is the point
“he remains one of the most genuinely disliked opponents in hockey”
takes-libertiesa strength· crosses the line and knows where it is
“He cross-checks, he agitates, he takes punishment in the crease and gives it back”
playmakerhe lacks it· passes up the shot a scorer takes
“100 shots in 81 games is very low volume and 11 assists says he creates nothing.”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 815 minutes

Expected goals: 51.8%; 69th pct
Shot attempts: 53.8%; 87th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 33 for, 27 against. Expected: 35.5 and 33.0.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

80th

Numbers

69th

The two rank him within 11 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 — 78 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 · 81 games

Top speed: 21.1 mph; 9th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.28 a game
Distance: 1.75 miles a game
Hardest shot: 94.7 mph; 96th 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 EDM · 815 minutes at five-on-five

Leon Draisaitl25%
Derek Ryanoff the roster25%
Adam Henrique24%

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 51.8% — 2.5 below the club he did it on.
The role: Fourth line, 815 minutes at five-on-five — 38th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Darnell Nurse	51.9%	51.7%	54.2%
Brett Kulak	58.9%	47.7%	52.2%
Evan Bouchard	53.6%	51.1%	59.1%

51.9% together, 51.7% for him apart and 54.2% for Nurse apart. Splitting them up moved neither man. Whatever is driving the share, it is not this pairing.

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

148 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 18 of them goals. His median goal came from 9 feet. 57% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 14% from beyond forty.