Armchair Hockey Scout

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2026-27 edition Ask a direct question about this edition of the book — who, how many, how common, which group more — and it is answered with a table computed on this page from the edition’s index: the season line, height and age, the on-ice percentiles, the grades and the traits read out of every report. Ask for a view on named players — what a comparison comes down to, what makes a man — and you get the book’s reading of their own pages, and only those. The model turns your question into a query and phrases the result, or reads the pages it is handed; it never originates a figure, and an answer carrying a figure that is on neither the table nor the pages is withheld. It does not forecast, and it says so when a question is outside what the book holds.

Tables are computed on this page from the 2026-27 edition’s index; readings rest on the players’ own pages; the model never counts. Twenty questions an hour.

73

Donovan Sebrango

Florida Panthers Defense

68 penalty minutes, no goals, and 60 shots from a median of 54 feet.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2024-25OTT2000-100000—10:19
2025-26OTT/FLA42088-568000330.015:06
2026-27 so far—————————————
Career—44088-668000330.014:53

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

No goals and 8 assists in 42 games, minus-5, at 15:06 a night with 68 penalty minutes. His 5-on-5 work was done in Ottawa.

The Finesse Game

61 unblocked attempts from a median of 54 feet, 5 per cent from inside 20, and not 1 goal. No goals in 44 career NHL games.

8 assists in 42 games. He makes the short pass and defends; there is no evidence of anything else and the club is not asking.

The Physical Game

6-2 and 223, which is heavy, and it is why he plays. 68 penalty minutes in 42 games is a very high rate for a third-pair defenceman, and he is willing in front of his own net.

The Intangibles

47.6 per cent of the expected goals, 33rd percentile, in 601 minutes, with the goals 27-32 against and the chances 24.1 to 26.6.

Some of that gap is Ottawa’s goaltending, which cost Brady Tkachuk 21 goals on the same club. Most of the rate is his.

He is 24, a third-round pick on his second organisation, and joins a Florida blue line already 6 deep. 5 points in his last 10, which is the most encouraging run on the page.

There is not enough here to grade with confidence. Ask again if he gets a season.

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.

  • perimeter· shoots from the outside, by choice or because he cannot get in

    83.6% of his attempts from 40 feet or beyond, 93rd percentile among defencemen

    Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 601 minutes

Expected goals
47.6%
33rd pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
49.2%
50th pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 27 for, 32 against. Expected: 24.1 and 26.6.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted
Report
8th
Numbers
33rd

The numbers rank him 25 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 — 63 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 · 42 games

Top speed
22.1 mph
69th pct

fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.6

Bursts over 20 mph
0.69 a game

how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes

Distance
2.09 miles a game

skated, all strengths

Hardest shot
90.0 mph
47th pct

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

5

points in his last 10 games — 0 goals, 5 assists, 13 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 571 minutes at five-on-five

  • Jeff Petryoff the roster30%
  • Mike Benningnow CGY16%

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
FLA took 50.4% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 47.6% — 2.8 below the club he did it on.
The role
601 minutes at five-on-five — 24th percentile in ice time.

With and without

TeammateTogetherHim apartMate apart
Jeff Petry52.4%45.5%51.7%
Mackie Samoskevich56.4%44.4%55.4%
Anthony-John (AJ) Greer54.5%45.0%54.4%

52.4% together, 45.5% for him apart and 51.7% for Petry apart. He was worse away from Petry, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Petry 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

61 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 0 of them goals. 5% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 84% from beyond forty.