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Dawson Mercer
New Jersey Devils Center #91
Twenty goals, and forty-nine per cent of his shots from inside twenty feet.
| Season | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 82 | 20 | 22 | 42 | -2 | 33 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 158 | 12.7 | 18:14 |
| Career | 410 | 103 | 106 | 209 | -27 | 120 | 18 | 6 | 14 | 748 | 13.8 | 17:17 |
Last Season
Twenty goals and 22 assists in all 82 games — 42 points, minus-two, at 18:14 a night. His fifth straight season without missing a game.
The Finesse Game
The shot selection is good and getting better. Two hundred and forty unblocked attempts with 49 per cent from inside twenty feet, median 21, and eighteen goals.
He is not a natural finisher and he compensates by refusing to take the easy shot from the outside. Two hundred and nine points in 410 career games is a solid middle-six rate.
Twenty-two assists is ordinary.
The Physical Game
Six foot even and 180, and light, but he plays a hard forechecking game and does not avoid the interior. Thirty-three penalty minutes.
Durability is the quiet asset here: 410 games in five seasons without a single one missed.
The Intangibles
Fifty-two point three per cent of the expected goals, 73rd percentile, with the chances 53.5 to 48.8 in his favour and the goals 40-47 against.
The same fourteen-goal hole every Devil has. This club scored 136 five-on-five goals against 173.9 expected.
Eight points in his last ten, five of them goals. He is 24, an eighteenth overall pick, and exactly the sort of player whose counting stats will jump next season without him doing anything differently.