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| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009-10 | OTT | 60 | 5 | 21 | 26 | -5 | 24 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 112 | 4.5 | 20:07 |
| 2010-11 | OTT | 75 | 13 | 32 | 45 | -30 | 50 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 182 | 7.1 | 23:31 |
| 2011-12 | OTT | 81 | 19 | 59 | 78 | +16 | 42 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 261 | 7.3 | 25:19 |
| 2012-13 | OTT | 17 | 6 | 8 | 14 | +8 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 79 | 7.6 | 27:09 |
| 2013-14 | OTT | 82 | 20 | 54 | 74 | -15 | 36 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 257 | 7.8 | 27:04 |
| 2014-15 | OTT | 82 | 21 | 45 | 66 | +7 | 42 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 292 | 7.2 | 27:15 |
| 2015-16 | OTT | 82 | 16 | 66 | 82 | -2 | 50 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 248 | 6.5 | 28:58 |
| 2016-17 | OTT | 77 | 17 | 54 | 71 | +10 | 28 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 218 | 7.8 | 26:50 |
| 2017-18 | OTT | 71 | 9 | 53 | 62 | -25 | 36 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 196 | 4.6 | 26:44 |
| 2018-19 | SJS | 53 | 3 | 42 | 45 | +6 | 22 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 169 | 1.8 | 24:29 |
| 2019-20 | SJS | 56 | 6 | 34 | 40 | -15 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 120 | 5.0 | 24:31 |
| 2020-21 | SJS | 52 | 8 | 14 | 22 | -18 | 18 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 110 | 7.3 | 23:36 |
| 2021-22 | SJS | 50 | 10 | 25 | 35 | -14 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 117 | 8.6 | 23:28 |
| 2022-23 | SJS | 82 | 25 | 76 | 101 | -26 | 36 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 209 | 12.0 | 25:37 |
| 2023-24 | PIT | 82 | 11 | 45 | 56 | +4 | 44 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 213 | 5.2 | 24:16 |
| 2024-25 | PIT | 82 | 11 | 42 | 53 | -24 | 20 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 191 | 5.8 | 23:14 |
| 2025-26 | PIT | 75 | 15 | 51 | 66 | +8 | 22 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 176 | 8.5 | 23:36 |
| 2026-27 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 1159 | 215 | 721 | 936 | -115 | 508 | 48 | 2 | 38 | 3150 | 6.8 | 25:07 |
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
15 goals and 51 assists in 75 games — 66 points, plus-8, at 23:36 a night. His 1,159th career game and his 936th point.
The Finesse Game
The skating is still remarkable at 36 — he changes direction at speed with the puck and escapes forechecks that should have him trapped.
51 assists from a defenceman is a top-3 figure at the position. The shot is a genuine weapon from distance: 289 unblocked attempts, median 50 feet, and 15 goals out of it, which for a point shot is an extraordinary conversion.
721 career assists.
The Physical Game
6 foot even and 185 pounds, and it has always been the criticism. 22 penalty minutes. He does not clear a crease, does not win a net-front battle, and defends entirely by having the puck instead.
The Intangibles
52.3 per cent of the expected goals, 72nd percentile, and 54.0 per cent of the shot attempts, 86th, across 1,291 minutes.
12 points in his last 10, 4 of them goals.
3 Norris Trophies and a career that has been argued about for 15 years. On a Pittsburgh club that finished 4th in the league at generating even-strength offence, he and Letang are both still playing more than 21 minutes at 36 and 39, which is either remarkable or a roster problem depending on what the club thinks it is.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1,291 minutes
- Expected goals
- 52.3%
- 73rd 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: 73 for, 53 against. Expected: 59.8 and 54.5.
The eye and the numbers
SightedThe two rank him within 0 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 — 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 · 75 games
- Top speed
- 23.7 mph
- 99th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 2.04 a game
- Distance
- 3.17 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 96.6 mph
- 86th 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
12
points in his last 10 games — 4 goals, 8 assists, 27 shots
Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.
Usual linemates
2025-26 · 1291 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
- PIT took 51.8% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 52.3% — 0.5 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- First pair, 1,291 minutes at five-on-five — 88th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parker Wotherspoon | 52.6% | 50.9% | 45.6% |
| Sidney Crosby | 47.9% | 55.0% | 52.2% |
| Bryan Rust | 46.4% | 55.8% | 49.3% |
52.6% together, 50.9% for him apart and 45.6% for Wotherspoon apart. Wotherspoon was worse away from him while his own share held — the pairing was doing more for Wotherspoon than for him.
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
289 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 15 of them goals. His median goal came from 44 feet. 7% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 72% from beyond forty.