Eric Robinson

12 goals from 11 minutes a night, undrafted, 455 games in.

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

2017-18	CBJ	1	0	0	0	+1	0	0	0	0	2	0.0	11:21
2018-19	CBJ	13	0	0	0	-4	0	0	0	0	18	0.0	11:50
2019-20	CBJ	50	7	5	12	+10	12	0	0	3	69	10.1	10:57
2020-21	CBJ	56	8	10	18	+6	4	0	1	2	75	10.7	12:24
2021-22	CBJ	67	10	17	27	-1	18	0	2	1	104	9.6	13:54
2022-23	CBJ	72	12	12	24	-21	6	0	0	1	98	12.2	13:57
2023-24	CBJ/BUF	47	3	7	10	-3	19	0	0	1	61	4.9	11:20
2024-25	CAR	82	14	18	32	+14	10	0	0	1	110	12.7	12:16
2025-26	CAR	67	12	6	18	+7	8	0	0	3	84	14.3	11:26
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	455	66	75	141	+9	77	0	3	12	621	10.6	12:25

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

12 goals and 6 assists in 67 games — 18 points, plus-7, at 11:26 a night. 8 penalty minutes all season.

The Finesse Game

The speed is the whole asset. He is among the faster forwards on the club and he uses it to forecheck rather than to carry, which is why 47 per cent of his unblocked attempts came from inside 20 feet at a median of 23.

12 goals from 84 shots on goal is a strong rate and it comes from arriving at the net faster than the man covering him.

6 assists in 67 games is the flat truth about everything else.

The Physical Game

6-2, 220, and fast for it, which is a genuinely valuable combination on a fourth line. 8 penalty minutes in 67 games is a startlingly clean season for a player in his role.

The Intangibles

54.6 per cent of the expected goals, 85th percentile, and 57.4 per cent of the shot attempts, 95th, in 703 minutes.

Undrafted out of Princeton, 455 NHL games, and 141 points across 9 seasons. He is 31.

He is a good example of the modern fourth-liner and of why the job changed: 30 years ago a man in this role scored 2 goals and could not skate. This one scores 12 and is one of the quickest players on a first-place 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.

disciplined· stays out of the box
0.12 penalty minutes a game over 67, 3rd percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.75) · 35% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 703 minutes

Expected goals: 54.6%; 86th pct
Shot attempts: 57.4%; 95th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 27 for, 22 against. Expected: 30.9 and 25.7.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

19th

Numbers

86th

The numbers rank him 67 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 — 66 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 · 67 games

Top speed: 23.6 mph; 96th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 1.87 a game
Distance: 1.84 miles a game
Hardest shot: 85.1 mph; 51st 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 — 1 goals, 1 assists, 12 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 703 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: CAR took 55.7% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 54.6% — 1.1 below the club he did it on.
The role: Fourth line, 703 minutes at five-on-five — 31st percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Mark Jankowski	61.4%	47.0%	54.2%
Alexander Nikishin	55.4%	54.0%	54.4%
Taylor Hall	60.7%	51.3%	55.3%

61.4% together, 47.0% for him apart and 54.2% for Jankowski 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

139 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 12 of them goals. His median goal came from 29 feet. 47% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 12% from beyond forty.