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2026-27 edition Ask a direct question about this edition of the book — who, how many, how common, which group more — and it is answered with a table computed on this page from the edition’s index: the season line, height and age, the on-ice percentiles, the grades and the traits read out of every report. Ask for a view on named players — what a comparison comes down to, what makes a man — and you get the book’s reading of their own pages, and only those. The model turns your question into a query and phrases the result, or reads the pages it is handed; it never originates a figure, and an answer carrying a figure that is on neither the table nor the pages is withheld. It does not forecast, and it says so when a question is outside what the book holds.

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42

Curtis Douglas

Seattle Kraken Center

6-9, 108 penalty minutes, and 6 minutes and 45 seconds a night.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2025-26TBL/VAN43134-3108000293.56:45
2026-27 so far—————————————
Career—43134-3108000293.56:45

This Season So Far

The 2026-27 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

1 goal and 3 assists in 43 games — 4 points, minus-3, at 6:45 a night with 108 penalty minutes. His first NHL season, at 26.

The Finesse Game

29 shots on goal in 43 games and one of them went in. There is nothing here and the page will not pretend otherwise.

4 points in 43 career games.

The Physical Game

6-9 and 242 pounds — level with Matt Rempe as the tallest player in the National Hockey League.

108 penalty minutes in 6 and 3-quarter minutes a night is 2.51 per game, the highest rate of any player in the league who dressed 40 times. He fights, he is asked to fight, and that is the engagement.

The skating is what a man this size skates like. He cannot chase and is not asked to.

The Intangibles

290 minutes of ice across a full season is a thirteenth-forward’s allocation, and the reason he dressed 43 times is that Seattle wanted somebody enormous available.

He is 26, a fourth-round pick from 2018 who took 8 years to arrive, and the honest scouting question about players like this is whether the 6 minutes are worth the roster spot on a club that finished in the bottom 5 in chance share.

There is no analytical case here. There is a 26-year-old who is 6-9 and made the National Hockey League, which is not nothing.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 289 minutes

Expected goals
55.3%
89th pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
51.2%
68th pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 7 for, 10 against. Expected: 11.8 and 9.6.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted
Report
4th
Numbers
89th

The numbers rank him 85 points above where the report does. It was written with these numbers on screen and departs from them anyway, which makes the gap a judgment rather than an oversight. 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 656 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 61 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, 2025-26 · 43 games

Top speed
21.3 mph
17th pct

fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.2

Bursts over 20 mph
0.12 a game

how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes

Distance
1.09 miles a game

skated, all strengths

Hardest shot
81.3 mph
27th pct

one shot; the league's average best is 83.6

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.

Recent form

Last 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first

2

points in his last 10 games — 1 goals, 1 assists, 15 shots

Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.

Usual linemates

2025-26 with TBL · 173 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, 2025-26

The club
VAN took 43.5% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 55.3% — 11.8 above the club he did it on.
The role
289 minutes at five-on-five — 5th percentile in ice time.

With and without

TeammateTogetherHim apartMate apart
Aatu Räty51.6%56.9%42.9%
Jack Finley67.8%51.3%41.8%
Scott Sabourin60.0%53.8%42.6%

51.6% together, 56.9% for him apart and 42.9% for Räty apart. He was carrying it: the share stayed with him and left Räty 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

47 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 1 of them goals. His median goal came from 8 feet. 62% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 13% from beyond forty.