Denver Barkey

5-10, 171 pounds, and a median shot from 14 feet.

Season	Team	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	PP	SH	GW	S	S%	TOI
2025-26	PHI	43	5	12	17	-6	16	1	0	0	43	11.6	13:24
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	43	5	12	17	-6	16	1	0	0	43	11.6	13:24

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

5 goals and 12 assists in 43 games — 17 points, minus-6, at 13:24 a night. His first NHL season, at 20.

The Finesse Game

The shot chart is the best of any rookie in this book. 57 per cent of his unblocked attempts came from inside 20 feet, with a median of 14, and only 11 per cent from beyond 40.

That is 171 pound winger doing his shooting in the crease, which almost nobody his size attempts. 5 goals came out of 63 tries, which is a poor conversion from excellent ice and a hands problem rather than a positioning one.

12 assists in 43 games says the playmaking is the more developed half.

The Physical Game

5-10 and 171 pounds, one of the two or three lightest skaters in the league. 16 penalty minutes in 43 games.

He is removed from pucks by grown defencemen and goes back for more, which is admirable and does not change the arithmetic. 2 summers of weight is the standard answer and he has had none.

The Intangibles

55.3 per cent of the expected goals, 89th percentile — the best mark on the club — in 507 minutes.

That is a genuinely striking number for a 20-year-old and it comes with the small-sample warning attached.

7 points in his last 10, 3 of them goals. He is 21, a 95th overall pick, and the most interesting young forward on this roster after Michkov. The shot chart says he already knows the hard part.

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.

slot-man· shoots from where goals are scored
69.8% of his attempts in the slot, 95th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.69) · 44% keep it
drives-play· the shot clock turns his way while he is out there
55.3% of the expected goals at five-on-five with him on, 49.8% for his club in the minutes he sat: +5.5, 93rd percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats moderately (0.39) · 29% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 507 minutes

Expected goals: 55.3%; 89th pct
Shot attempts: 49.7%; 54th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 20 for, 23 against. Expected: 21.1 and 17.1.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

55th

Numbers

89th

The numbers rank him 34 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 — 73 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: 22.5 mph; 64th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 1.44 a game
Distance: 2.20 miles a game
Hardest shot: 79.4 mph; 19th 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 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first

points in his last 10 games — 3 goals, 4 assists, 15 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 507 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: PHI took 50.5% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 55.3% — 4.8 above the club he did it on.
The role: Third line, 507 minutes at five-on-five — 17th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Owen Tippett	58.9%	50.4%	52.0%
Sean Couturier	62.8%	48.4%	49.2%
Cam York	45.9%	61.4%	50.5%

58.9% together, 50.4% for him apart and 52.0% for Tippett apart. Both were worse apart, so whatever the two of them had together was doing real work.

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

63 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 5 of them goals. His median goal came from 14 feet. 57% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 11% from beyond forty.