David Kampf
Vancouver Canucks Center
Undrafted, thirteen points in 59 games, and a fourth-line centre acquired for the penalty kill.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-18 | CHI | 46 | 4 | 7 | 11 | -9 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 46 | 8.7 | 12:48 |
| 2018-19 | CHI | 63 | 4 | 15 | 19 | -6 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 72 | 5.6 | 13:55 |
| 2019-20 | CHI | 70 | 8 | 8 | 16 | -11 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 90 | 8.9 | 13:40 |
| 2020-21 | CHI | 56 | 1 | 11 | 12 | -3 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 63 | 1.6 | 14:40 |
| 2021-22 | TOR | 82 | 11 | 15 | 26 | +12 | 20 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 102 | 10.8 | 15:16 |
| 2022-23 | TOR | 82 | 7 | 20 | 27 | +6 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 107 | 6.5 | 15:18 |
| 2023-24 | TOR | 78 | 8 | 11 | 19 | -4 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 79 | 10.1 | 13:29 |
| 2024-25 | TOR | 59 | 5 | 8 | 13 | -1 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 45 | 11.1 | 12:24 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 536 | 48 | 95 | 143 | -16 | 114 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 604 | 8.0 | 14:03 |
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
5 goals and 8 assists in 59 games for Toronto — 13 points at 12:24 a night, minus-1, with a shorthanded goal and 14 penalty minutes.
Thirteen points in 59 games is the least productive season of his career and it is not the reason he is employed. He was a healthy scratch for stretches of it on a club that won 108 points.
The Finesse Game
45 attempts and 5 goals in 59 games. 143 points in 536 career NHL games is the whole offensive record.
8 assists. He makes the correct first pass out of his own end and nothing more ambitious than that, which is exactly what the role requires.
The Physical Game
6-2 and 198 and honest. He blocks shots, he forechecks properly, and he does not initiate contact.
14 penalty minutes in 59 games. He does not foul, he wins the hardest defensive draws available, and he has been a first-unit penalty killer on two clubs for eight seasons.
The Intangibles
Undrafted, and he came from the Czech league to Chicago at 22 — 536 games and 143 points across two organisations.
He is 30 and Vancouver acquired him in the summer. On a club whose centre depth was the story of last season, a defensive fourth-line centre who kills penalties is the least glamorous and most necessary signing it made.
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
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
26% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 3rd percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
“**Undrafted**, and he came from the Czech league to Chicago at 22 — **536 games and 143 points** across two organisations.”
“He does not foul, he wins the hardest defensive draws available, and he has been a first-unit penalty killer on two clubs for eight seasons.”
“He does not foul, he wins the hardest defensive draws available, and he has been a first-unit penalty killer on two clubs for eight seasons.”
“He blocks shots, he forechecks properly, and he does not initiate contact.”
“He makes the correct first pass out of his own end and nothing more ambitious than that, which is exactly what the role requires.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 605 minutes
- Expected goals
- 45.1%
- 17th pct
- Shot attempts
- 45.5%
- 15th pct
share of the chances while he was out there
share of the attempts while he was out there
Goals while he was on the ice: 17 for, 21 against. Expected: 16.3 and 19.9.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 13 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 — 69 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 · 59 games
- Top speed
- 22.4 mph
- 57th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.46 a game
- Distance
- 2.07 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 80.1 mph
- 20th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.2
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 83.9
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 · 605 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
- TOR took 50.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 45.1% — 5.1 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Fourth line, 605 minutes at five-on-five — 22nd percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steven Lorentz | 50.4% | 37.4% | 52.0% |
| Morgan Rielly | 44.0% | 45.7% | 50.6% |
| Jake McCabe | 52.0% | 42.0% | 52.6% |
50.4% together, 37.4% for him apart and 52.0% for Lorentz apart. He was worse away from Lorentz, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Lorentz 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
64 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 4 of them goals. His median goal came from 13 feet. 34% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 27% from beyond forty.