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| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011-12 | WSH | 60 | 3 | 16 | 19 | +1 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 51 | 5.9 | 16:52 |
| 2012-13 | WSH | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | +5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 | 14:57 |
| 2013-14 | WSH | 54 | 3 | 8 | 11 | -1 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 59 | 5.1 | 19:36 |
| 2015-16 | WSH | 82 | 8 | 21 | 29 | +8 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 90 | 8.9 | 16:02 |
| 2016-17 | WSH | 82 | 6 | 27 | 33 | +30 | 51 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 125 | 4.8 | 19:32 |
| 2017-18 | WSH | 82 | 10 | 21 | 31 | +10 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 125 | 8.0 | 23:08 |
| 2018-19 | WSH | 82 | 3 | 26 | 29 | +3 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 101 | 3.0 | 21:38 |
| 2019-20 | WSH | 69 | 4 | 23 | 27 | +5 | 36 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 105 | 3.8 | 22:10 |
| 2020-21 | WSH | 51 | 8 | 14 | 22 | +16 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 83 | 9.6 | 19:49 |
| 2021-22 | WSH | 76 | 12 | 23 | 35 | +25 | 44 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 127 | 9.4 | 20:58 |
| 2022-23 | WSH/BOS | 66 | 7 | 29 | 36 | +12 | 22 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 124 | 5.7 | 22:33 |
| 2023-24 | CAR | 82 | 6 | 20 | 26 | +4 | 36 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 129 | 4.7 | 17:19 |
| 2024-25 | CAR | 76 | 6 | 22 | 28 | +16 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 117 | 5.1 | 20:00 |
| 2025-26 | SJS | 82 | 3 | 34 | 37 | -28 | 48 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 91 | 3.3 | 21:12 |
| 2026-27 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 949 | 79 | 285 | 364 | +106 | 399 | 6 | 1 | 19 | 1328 | 5.9 | 20:03 |
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
3 goals and 34 assists in all 82 games — 37 points, minus-28, at 21:12 a night with 48 penalty minutes. His 949th career game.
He turned 35 in July.
The Finesse Game
Still one of the better first passes on any blue line. 147 unblocked attempts from a median of 49 feet, 3 goals — the shot has gone, and 79 goals in 949 games says it was never the point.
34 assists at 35 on a last-place club is a genuinely strong number and the second-highest total of his career.
The Physical Game
5-11 and 215 pounds, which is short and thick, and he plays heavier than the height. 48 penalty minutes.
He is difficult to knock over, clears his crease better than most defencemen his size, and the skating is still good enough to escape a forecheck at 35.
The Intangibles
49.9 per cent of the expected goals, 54th percentile, and 50.7 per cent of the shot attempts, 65th — the best figures on the blue line, across the heaviest workload on it, with the chances 60.0 to 60.4 in his favour and the goals 53-72.
The minus-28 is therefore one of the most misleading numbers in this edition, and where it comes from is not mysterious: San Jose’s goaltenders stopped .883, .896 and .890.
7 points in his last 10, none of them goals. He is 35, won a Cup in Washington, and is the only defenceman on this roster whose underlying work is above water. He will be somebody’s deadline acquisition.
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.
- durable· was available
82 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1,442 minutes
- Expected goals
- 49.9%
- 54th pct
- Shot attempts
- 50.7%
- 65th 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: 53 for, 72 against. Expected: 60.0 and 60.4.
The eye and the numbers
SightedThe two rank him within 7 points of one another. It was written with these numbers on screen, so the agreement is not corroboration — the arithmetic is on both sides of it.
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 — 74 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 · 82 games
- Top speed
- 21.3 mph
- 35th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.20 a game
- Distance
- 2.91 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 92.3 mph
- 61st 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 88.9
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.
Recent form
Last 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first
7
points in his last 10 games — 0 goals, 7 assists, 18 shots
Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.
Usual linemates
2025-26 · 1442 minutes at five-on-five
- John Klingbergoff the roster36%
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
- SJS took 47.4% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 49.9% — 2.5 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- First pair, 1,442 minutes at five-on-five — 95th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Macklin Celebrini | 53.5% | 46.9% | 49.3% |
| John Klingberg | 49.9% | 49.9% | 45.0% |
| Will Smith | 51.0% | 49.3% | 48.7% |
53.5% together, 46.9% for him apart and 49.3% for Celebrini 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
147 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 3 of them goals. His median goal came from 24 feet. 8% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 71% from beyond forty.