Daemon Hunt

A third-round defenceman getting his first real look, with no goals and not much evidence either way.

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

2023-24	MIN	12	0	1	1	-1	0	0	0	0	7	0.0	11:30
2024-25	MIN	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0.0	8:01
2025-26	MIN	32	0	6	6	-3	6	0	0	0	19	0.0	12:26
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	45	0	7	7	-4	6	0	0	0	28	0.0	12:05

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

No goals and 6 assists in 32 games on 12 and a half minutes a night, minus-3. Across 45 career games he has 7 points.

The Finesse Game

The skating is the tool that got him here — he moves well in both directions and can escape a forecheck, which is the baseline requirement for a modern defenceman.

19 shots in 32 games says a player being asked to keep things simple, and doing so. There is not enough offensive evidence to judge; what there is suggests a puck-mover rather than a producer.

The Physical Game

6-1 and 193, and he is willing without dominating. He can be out-muscled in front of his own net and holds up adequately on the wall.

The Intangibles

24, a third-round pick, and now past the point where a defence prospect is developing rather than proving. The club gave him 32 games and did not appear to regret it.

Everything about him is still open. A third pairing on a team with an ageing right side is a real opportunity, and this is the season he either takes it or becomes organisational depth.

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

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
41% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 10th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 360 minutes

Expected goals: 43.6%; 9th pct
Shot attempts: 37.8%; 0th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 9 for, 12 against. Expected: 11.9 and 15.4.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

38th

Numbers

9th

Blind

19th

The report ranks him 29 points above where the numbers do. 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.

The same player was graded a second time from his biography and his box score alone, with the measured record withheld. That reading lands 10 points from the numbers; this one lands 29. Across the whole control the two distances come out the same, which is worth knowing in both directions: the arithmetic on both sides of the sighted reading did not buy it any accuracy, and it did not cost it any either.

All three 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 — 70 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 · 32 games

Top speed: 21.4 mph; 41st pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.47 a game
Distance: 1.80 miles a game
Hardest shot: 88.8 mph; 41st 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.

Recent form

Last 13 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first

points in his last 10 games — 0 goals, 4 assists, 16 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 360 minutes at five-on-five

David Jiriceknow PHI23%
Zeev Buiumnow VAN15%
Zach Bogosian14%

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: MIN took 50.5% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 43.6% — 6.9 below the club he did it on.
The role: 360 minutes at five-on-five — 9th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Yakov Trenin	36.3%	46.5%	50.2%
Danila Yurov	42.2%	44.0%	51.4%
David Jiricek	39.4%	45.0%	47.9%

36.3% together, 46.5% for him apart and 50.2% for Trenin apart. Both were better apart than together — the pairing was doing neither of them any favours.

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

27 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 0 of them goals. 7% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 63% from beyond forty.