Ethen Frank

Undrafted, 12 goals, and 58 per cent of his shots from inside 20 feet.

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

2024-25	WSH	24	4	3	7	+3	6	0	0	1	23	17.4	10:49
2025-26	WSH	62	12	12	24	+8	18	2	0	0	91	13.2	12:14
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	86	16	15	31	+11	24	2	0	1	114	14.0	11:50

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 12 assists in 62 games — 24 points, plus-8, at 12:14 a night with 2 power-play goals.

31 points in 86 career games.

The Finesse Game

The shot chart is one of the best on the club. 127 unblocked attempts with 58 per cent from inside 20 feet and a median of 18, and only 9 per cent from beyond 40.

12 goals in 12 minutes a night is a strong rate and the location is why.

12 assists in 62 games is the flat part.

The Physical Game

5-11, 188, and light. 18 penalty minutes.

The speed is the tool — he is among the fastest skaters in the league by raw straight-line pace — and it is how a small, undrafted winger gets to the interior at all.

The Intangibles

49.3 per cent of the expected goals, 48th percentile, against 47.0 per cent of the shot attempts, 23rd, across 673 minutes.

Below average in attempts and near even in chances — fewer shots, better ones — which for a fourth-line winger is the right shape.

1 point in his last 10. He is 28, undrafted out of Western Michigan, and did not play an NHL game until 26. 12 goals in 12 minutes a night is a genuinely useful thing to have found for nothing.

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.

slot-man· shoots from where goals are scored
66.9% of his attempts in the slot, 91st percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.69) · 44% keep it
hard-minutes· is started in his own end, against the other club's best
33% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 8th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 673 minutes

Expected goals: 49.3%; 49th pct
Shot attempts: 47%; 27th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 30 for, 22 against. Expected: 27.1 and 27.9.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

44th

Numbers

49th

Blind

27th

The two rank him within 5 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.

The same player was graded a second time from his biography and his box score alone, with the measured record withheld. That reading lands 22 points from the numbers; this one lands 5. Across the whole control the two distances come out the same, which is worth knowing in both directions: the arithmetic on both sides of the sighted reading did not buy it any accuracy, and it did not cost it any either.

All three 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 — 71 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 · 62 games

Top speed: 23.5 mph; 95th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 3.66 a game
Distance: 1.88 miles a game
Hardest shot: 89.7 mph; 82nd 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, 0 assists, 18 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 673 minutes at five-on-five

Nic Dowdnow VGK39%
Brandon Duhaimenow TOR36%
Hendrix Lapierrenow PIT29%

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: WSH took 49.5% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 49.3% — 0.2 below the club he did it on.
The role: Fourth line, 673 minutes at five-on-five — 28th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Nic Dowd	46.7%	50.7%	46.0%
Brandon Duhaime	49.6%	49.2%	46.6%
Jakob Chychrun	43.8%	52.7%	51.5%

46.7% together, 50.7% for him apart and 46.0% for Dowd apart. He was better away from Dowd, who was no worse away from him — the pairing cost him more than it cost Dowd.

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

127 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 12 of them goals. His median goal came from 24 feet. 58% of his shots came from inside twenty feet.