Drake Batherson

33 goals from a fourth-round pick, and the 94th percentile.

Season	Team	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	PP	SH	GW	S	S%	TOI

2018-19	OTT	20	3	6	9	-2	6	2	0	2	18	16.7	13:25
2019-20	OTT	23	3	7	10	-12	13	1	0	0	32	9.4	15:34
2020-21	OTT	56	17	17	34	-17	8	5	0	3	111	15.3	16:28
2021-22	OTT	46	17	27	44	+4	32	3	0	3	110	15.4	18:56
2022-23	OTT	82	22	40	62	-35	33	14	0	2	249	8.8	18:36
2023-24	OTT	82	28	38	66	-9	42	7	0	4	196	14.3	18:10
2024-25	OTT	82	26	42	68	-9	30	13	0	3	192	13.5	18:09
2025-26	OTT	79	33	38	71	-7	33	13	0	5	167	19.8	17:21
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	470	149	215	364	-87	197	58	0	22	1075	13.9	17:39

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

33 goals and 38 assists in 79 games — 71 points, minus-7, at 17:21 a night with 13 power-play goals.

The Finesse Game

The shot chart is excellent: 283 unblocked attempts with 47 per cent from inside 20 feet, median 23, and 35 goals.

He is not fast and it does not matter, because he arrives in the quiet ice rather than racing anyone to it. The release is quick and disguised, and 13 power-play goals says the club has worked out where to put him.

38 assists is genuinely good.

The Physical Game

6-3, 209, and he uses the reach rather than the body. 33 penalty minutes. He goes to the net front on the power play and is otherwise not a physical presence.

The Intangibles

56.3 per cent of the expected goals, 93rd percentile, and 55.2 per cent of the shot attempts, 91st, with the chances 48.5 to 37.6 in his favour.

The minus-7 attached to that is the goaltending, which cost this club 33 goals.

11 points in his last 10, 7 of them goals. He is 28, a 121st overall pick, and 364 points into 470 games.

Ottawa’s top 6 — Stutzle, Batherson, Cozens, Pinto, Giroux, Greig — posted expected-goal shares between 54 and 58 per cent. This is a very good hockey team.

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
79 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
sheltered· is started in the attacking end
68% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 99th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 47% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1,044 minutes

Expected goals: 56.3%; 93rd pct
Shot attempts: 55.2%; 91st pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 45 for, 48 against. Expected: 48.5 and 37.6.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

73rd

Numbers

93rd

The numbers rank him 20 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 — 76 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 · 79 games

Top speed: 22.1 mph; 43rd pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 1.76 a game
Distance: 2.78 miles a game
Hardest shot: 90.6 mph; 86th 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 — 7 goals, 4 assists, 18 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 1044 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: OTT took 54.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 56.3% — 1.4 above the club he did it on.
The role: Second line, 1,044 minutes at five-on-five — 65th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Tim Stützle	54.6%	59.0%	53.7%
Jordan Spence	63.0%	52.9%	60.5%
Dylan Cozens	59.2%	54.9%	59.6%

54.6% together, 59.0% for him apart and 53.7% for Stützle apart. He was better away from Stützle, who was no worse away from him — the pairing cost him more than it cost Stützle.

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

283 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 35 of them goals. His median goal came from 10 feet. 47% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 13% from beyond forty.