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Evan Rodrigues
Florida Panthers Center
32 points and 161 shots from a third line, and a 52.5 per cent chance share.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-16 | BUF | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 12.5 | 11:45 |
| 2016-17 | BUF | 30 | 4 | 2 | 6 | -7 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 51 | 7.8 | 12:56 |
| 2017-18 | BUF | 48 | 7 | 18 | 25 | -10 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 91 | 7.7 | 13:56 |
| 2018-19 | BUF | 74 | 9 | 20 | 29 | -7 | 25 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 168 | 5.4 | 15:49 |
| 2019-20 | BUF/PIT | 45 | 6 | 4 | 10 | -8 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 75 | 8.0 | 11:17 |
| 2020-21 | PIT | 35 | 7 | 7 | 14 | -3 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 65 | 10.8 | 14:06 |
| 2021-22 | PIT | 82 | 19 | 24 | 43 | +3 | 14 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 243 | 7.8 | 15:50 |
| 2022-23 | COL | 69 | 16 | 23 | 39 | +7 | 30 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 184 | 8.7 | 17:51 |
| 2023-24 | FLA | 80 | 12 | 27 | 39 | +26 | 34 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 186 | 6.5 | 15:10 |
| 2024-25 | FLA | 82 | 15 | 17 | 32 | -4 | 38 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 161 | 9.3 | 15:13 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 547 | 96 | 143 | 239 | -1 | 179 | 27 | 0 | 9 | 1232 | 7.8 | 15:04 |
This Season So Far
The 2025-26 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 17 assists in 82 games for 32 points, minus-4, on 15:13 a night and 161 shots.
52.5 per cent at five-on-five, the 75th percentile. 9.3 per cent shooting is below his career rate, and 31 per cent of his attempts came from beyond 40 feet — the highest perimeter share among the club’s forwards.
The Finesse Game
A quick, versatile forward who can play any of the three forward positions and has done all of them here. The release is decent and the volume is high for the ice time.
17 assists is honest. There is no creation that a club would build around and there is enough skill to keep a shift moving, which is a genuinely useful third-line profile.
The Physical Game
5-11 and 182, and light. He forechecks honestly without winning many pucks and does not go to the net front.
38 penalty minutes over 82 games. The durability has been excellent — three consecutive full seasons.
The Intangibles
Undrafted, five organisations, and a career of being the useful extra forward on good clubs.
At 32 the projection is a third-line winger who scores 30 points and can fill any hole. On a roster that has just lost its captain for the season, versatility is worth more than usual.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,058 minutes
- Expected goals
- 52.5%
- 76th pct
- Shot attempts
- 57.3%
- 95th 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: 31 for, 29 against. Expected: 43.3 and 39.2.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 23 points above where the report does. It was written for a back edition, with the seasons that followed already known. Neither the agreement nor the gap says anything about the eye, and this report is excluded from the club-level comparison for the same reason. 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 357 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 73 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.
Usual linemates
2024-25 · 1058 minutes at five-on-five
- Sam Bennett34%
- Sam Reinhart28%
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, 2024-25
- The club
- FLA took 54.0% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 52.5% — 1.5 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third line, 1,058 minutes at five-on-five — 69th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gustav Forsling | 52.6% | 52.4% | 53.7% |
| Sam Bennett | 52.9% | 52.2% | 53.6% |
| Niko Mikkola | 55.0% | 51.2% | 54.5% |
52.6% together, 52.4% for him apart and 53.7% for Forsling apart. Splitting them up moved neither man. Whatever is driving the share, it is not this pairing.
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
248 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 16 of them goals. His median goal came from 13 feet. 31% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 31% from beyond forty.