| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-16 | CAR | 6 | 2 | 0 | 2 | +1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 40.0 | 12:12 |
| 2016-17 | CAR | 67 | 11 | 18 | 29 | -8 | 22 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 73 | 15.1 | 14:53 |
| 2017-18 | CAR | 80 | 15 | 23 | 38 | -15 | 28 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 135 | 11.1 | 15:36 |
| 2018-19 | CGY | 81 | 13 | 25 | 38 | +21 | 24 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 103 | 12.6 | 13:48 |
| 2019-20 | CGY | 68 | 10 | 19 | 29 | +9 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 102 | 9.8 | 14:33 |
| 2020-21 | CGY | 43 | 2 | 11 | 13 | +6 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 37 | 5.4 | 11:53 |
| 2021-22 | EDM | 75 | 10 | 12 | 22 | -4 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 72 | 13.9 | 11:26 |
| 2022-23 | EDM | 80 | 13 | 7 | 20 | +11 | 28 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 92 | 14.1 | 11:10 |
| 2023-24 | EDM | 70 | 5 | 7 | 12 | -3 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 52 | 9.6 | 10:12 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 570 | 81 | 122 | 203 | +18 | 146 | 11 | 6 | 7 | 671 | 12.1 | 12:59 |
This Season So Far
The 2024-25 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
70 games, 5 goals and 7 assists for 12 points, 2 shorthanded, 8 penalty minutes, 10:12 a night and minus-3. He took 51.8 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 595 minutes, the 66th percentile, and his ice went 11-18 against an expectation of 22.56-20.97.
Twelve goals of scoring that never arrived, which is the worst rate on the club against a chance share that was better than even. Two of his five goals came shorthanded.
The Finesse Game
52 shots at a median of 19 feet with 53 per cent from inside 20, converted at 9.6 per cent. He goes to the right ice and there is very little behind it at 37.
122 career assists in 570 games. He takes the defensive-zone draw that starts the shift and he wins more of them than a fourth-line centre is expected to.
The Physical Game
He is 5-10 and 185 and avoids contact entirely.
8 penalty minutes in 70 games is one of the lowest rates in this edition. He blocks shots and gets out of the way of everything else.
The Intangibles
Undrafted, out of Spokane, by way of the University of Alberta and several seasons in Europe before a first National Hockey League game at 28. He kills penalties and has 6 career shorthanded goals in 570 games.
203 points in 570 games from a player nobody drafted is a career that should not have happened. At 37 it is nearly over, and the kill is the last part of it that still works.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 595 minutes
- Expected goals
- 51.8%
- 66th pct
- Shot attempts
- 52.9%
- 78th 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: 11 for, 18 against. Expected: 22.6 and 21.0.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 45 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 379 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 59 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.
Usual linemates
2023-24 · 595 minutes at five-on-five
- Connor Brown26%
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, 2023-24
- The club
- EDM took 56.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 51.8% — 5.1 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third line, 595 minutes at five-on-five — 24th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brett Kulak | 52.5% | 51.4% | 55.1% |
| Vincent Desharnais | 53.1% | 51.1% | 54.0% |
| Mattias Janmark | 54.0% | 50.7% | 52.1% |
52.5% together, 51.4% for him apart and 55.1% for Kulak apart. Splitting them up moved neither man. Whatever is driving the share, it is not this pairing.
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
70 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 6 of them goals. His median goal came from 14 feet. 53% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 16% from beyond forty.