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Drew Doughty
Los Angeles Kings Defense #8
18 years, 2 Cups and 1,279 games in one sweater, still playing the most minutes on the team.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008-09 | LAK | 81 | 6 | 21 | 27 | -17 | 56 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 126 | 4.8 | 23:50 |
| 2009-10 | LAK | 82 | 16 | 43 | 59 | +20 | 54 | 9 | 0 | 5 | 142 | 11.3 | 24:59 |
| 2010-11 | LAK | 76 | 11 | 29 | 40 | +13 | 68 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 139 | 7.9 | 25:39 |
| 2011-12 | LAK | 77 | 10 | 26 | 36 | -2 | 69 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 168 | 5.9 | 24:54 |
| 2012-13 | LAK | 48 | 6 | 16 | 22 | +4 | 36 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 114 | 5.3 | 26:24 |
| 2013-14 | LAK | 78 | 10 | 27 | 37 | +17 | 64 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 177 | 5.7 | 25:43 |
| 2014-15 | LAK | 82 | 7 | 39 | 46 | +3 | 56 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 219 | 3.2 | 29:00 |
| 2015-16 | LAK | 82 | 14 | 37 | 51 | +24 | 52 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 197 | 7.1 | 28:01 |
| 2016-17 | LAK | 82 | 12 | 32 | 44 | +8 | 46 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 181 | 6.6 | 27:09 |
| 2017-18 | LAK | 82 | 10 | 50 | 60 | +23 | 54 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 205 | 4.9 | 26:50 |
| 2018-19 | LAK | 82 | 8 | 37 | 45 | -34 | 44 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 154 | 5.2 | 26:36 |
| 2019-20 | LAK | 67 | 7 | 28 | 35 | -16 | 36 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 141 | 5.0 | 25:49 |
| 2020-21 | LAK | 56 | 8 | 26 | 34 | -14 | 26 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 101 | 7.9 | 26:23 |
| 2021-22 | LAK | 39 | 7 | 24 | 31 | +4 | 30 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 99 | 7.1 | 25:44 |
| 2022-23 | LAK | 81 | 9 | 43 | 52 | +12 | 34 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 145 | 6.2 | 26:14 |
| 2023-24 | LAK | 82 | 15 | 35 | 50 | +15 | 44 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 135 | 11.1 | 25:48 |
| 2024-25 | LAK | 30 | 4 | 13 | 17 | +9 | 20 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 46 | 8.7 | 24:08 |
| 2025-26 | LAK | 72 | 5 | 18 | 23 | +4 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 101 | 5.0 | 23:05 |
| 2026-27 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 1279 | 165 | 544 | 709 | +73 | 829 | 80 | 3 | 34 | 2590 | 6.4 | 25:59 |
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 23 points in 72 games at 23 minutes a night, which was again the most on the roster. The production is a long way from his peak; the workload is not.
The Finesse Game
The reads are still the best part of him and probably always were. He knows where the play is going before it goes there, which is what lets a defenceman who is no longer quick keep arriving on time. The first pass is crisp and he still steps up into the neutral zone to kill a rush before it starts — the anticipation covers a good deal of ground he can no longer cover with his feet.
The offensive game has narrowed. He is not a power-play driver anymore, he shoots less, and the end-to-end rushes that used to be a weekly occurrence have mostly gone. What remains is a defenceman who moves the puck simply and rarely puts a teammate in trouble.
The Physical Game
6-1 and 210, and he plays a heavy positional game rather than a punishing one. He is strong along the wall, good in front of his own net, and willing in the corners. He has taken an enormous amount of physical mileage and missed significant time in recent seasons; that is the thing to watch rather than the point production.
The Intangibles
He is the franchise, and has been since he was 18. He plays the hard minutes, talks openly about the state of the team, and has never once given the impression of coasting toward the end of a career.
The uncomfortable part is that he is being asked to play 23 minutes a night at 36 on a team that has younger defencemen ready for them. It is a testament to him that the coaching staff keeps making that choice, and a fair question whether they should.
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
83.0% of his attempts from 40 feet or beyond, 91st percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
- drives-play· the shot clock turns his way while he is out there
54.8% of the expected goals at five-on-five with him on, 50.5% for his club in the minutes he sat: +4.3, 90th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats moderately (0.39) · 29% keep it
- workhorse· carries the load at even strength
19:00 a game at five-on-five, 90th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.78) · 58% keep it
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1,368 minutes
- Expected goals
- 54.8%
- 87th pct
- Shot attempts
- 54%
- 86th 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: 51 for, 44 against. Expected: 57.9 and 47.8.
The eye and the numbers
SightedThe two rank him within 1 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 — 79 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 · 72 games
- Top speed
- 21.6 mph
- 45th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.50 a game
- Distance
- 3.34 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 96.5 mph
- 85th 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
3
points in his last 10 games — 0 goals, 3 assists, 17 shots
Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.
Usual linemates
2025-26 · 1368 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
- LAK took 51.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 54.8% — 2.9 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- First pair, 1,368 minutes at five-on-five — 91st percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mikey Anderson | 53.5% | 57.5% | 46.8% |
| Alex Laferriere | 55.8% | 54.1% | 50.1% |
| Quinton Byfield | 56.7% | 53.7% | 50.7% |
53.5% together, 57.5% for him apart and 46.8% for Anderson apart. He was carrying it: the share stayed with him and left Anderson behind.
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
153 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 5 of them goals. His median goal came from 37 feet. 6% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 83% from beyond forty.