Dennis Cholowski
New Jersey Devils Defense
39 games, 10 points, and a seventh defenceman on his fifth organisation.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | DET | 52 | 7 | 9 | 16 | -20 | 16 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 71 | 9.9 | 18:15 |
| 2019-20 | DET | 36 | 2 | 6 | 8 | -26 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 51 | 3.9 | 19:13 |
| 2020-21 | DET | 16 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10.0 | 15:54 |
| 2021-22 | WSH/SEA | 11 | 0 | 3 | 3 | -3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0.0 | 15:49 |
| 2022-23 | NYI | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 12:47 |
| 2024-25 | NYI/NJD | 39 | 3 | 7 | 10 | -3 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 10.0 | 13:05 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 156 | 13 | 27 | 40 | -54 | 38 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 173 | 7.5 | 16:42 |
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
3 goals and 7 assists in 39 games for 10 points, minus-3, on 13:05 a night.
46.9 per cent at five-on-five, the 25th percentile, over 460 minutes. 30 shots with 83 per cent from beyond 40 feet and 2 per cent from inside 20.
The Finesse Game
Modest. The skating is fine and the first pass is adequate under moderate pressure, and 10 points in 39 games is a fair depth return.
He was a first-round pick for an offensive game that has never appeared at this level across seven professional seasons.
The Physical Game
6-2 and 210, and neither heavy nor especially willing. He does not clear a net front and loses more board battles than he wins.
10 penalty minutes over 39 games. Disciplined.
The Intangibles
A first-round pick, five organisations, and a career spent between the two leagues.
The projection is a seventh defenceman. That is the role and the price is right.
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.
- 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.
“He does not clear a net front and loses more board battles than he wins.”
“He does not clear a net front and loses more board battles than he wins.”
“6-2 and 210, and neither heavy nor especially willing.”
“10 penalty minutes over 39 games. Disciplined.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 460 minutes
- Expected goals
- 46.9%
- 26th pct
- Shot attempts
- 44.8%
- 12th 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, 18 against. Expected: 14.6 and 16.6.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 21 points above where the report does. 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. 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 637 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, 2024-25 · 39 games
- Top speed
- 20.5 mph
- 13th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.05 a game
- Distance
- 1.92 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 88.7 mph
- 38th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.6
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 89.7
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 NYI · 379 minutes at five-on-five
- Grant Huttonoff the roster16%
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
- NJD took 50.7% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 46.9% — 3.8 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- 460 minutes at five-on-five — 13th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scott Mayfield | 48.8% | 45.3% | 47.3% |
| Casey Cizikas | 54.8% | 43.9% | 45.5% |
| Anders Lee | 51.1% | 45.6% | 53.0% |
48.8% together, 45.3% for him apart and 47.3% for Mayfield apart. He was worse away from Mayfield, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Mayfield 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
42 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 3 of them goals. His median goal came from 49 feet. 2% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 83% from beyond forty.