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Filip Hronek

Twenty-eight assists in 61 games at 23:54 a night, on the pairing that carries the club.

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

2018-19	DET	46	5	18	23	-10	30	1	0	0	73	6.9	19:58
2019-20	DET	65	9	22	31	-38	46	1	0	0	125	7.2	23:54
2020-21	DET	56	2	24	26	-18	16	0	0	0	114	1.8	23:23
2021-22	DET	78	5	33	38	-29	36	2	0	0	133	3.8	22:02
2022-23	DET/VAN	64	9	30	39	+7	34	4	0	1	124	7.3	21:42
2023-24	VAN	81	5	43	48	+33	38	2	0	0	148	3.4	23:26
2024-25	VAN	61	5	28	33	0	40	0	0	0	83	6.0	23:54
2025-26 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	451	40	198	238	-55	240	10	0	1	800	5.0	22:43

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

5 goals and 28 assists in 61 games — 33 points at 23:54 a night, even on the year, with 40 penalty minutes on 83 shots. He missed a quarter of the season.

53.4 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 75th percentile. His ice went 52-48 against an expectation of 44.17-38.53 — ten goals of scoring missing and seven conceded above expectation, which is the goaltending and the finishing at once.

The Finesse Game

83 attempts at a median of 54 feet with 73 per cent from beyond 40, and 5 goals. The shot is a point shot.

28 assists in 61 games is a strong rate and it comes from the first pass. He retrieves under pressure, he escapes the first forechecker, and he moves the puck early — which is the specific reason he can play beside Quinn Hughes without both of them going the same way.

The Physical Game

6-0 and 190 and he is not a heavy defenceman. He does not clear his crease by force and he does not finish many checks.

40 penalty minutes in 61 games at nearly twenty-four minutes a night is a moderate rate and a share of it is the stick foul that follows losing a step. He defends with his skating and his stick.

The Intangibles

A second-round pick of Detroit in 2016 and 451 games and 238 points, with a career minus-55 collected on rebuilding clubs.

He is 27 and signed through 2032. Vancouver acquired him in 2023 for a first-round pick and a second, and he has been the right-shot partner the club had been looking for since 2019.

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
a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed
he lacks itraised, and he does not have it

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.

drives-play· the shot clock turns his way while he is out there
53.4% of the expected goals at five-on-five with him on, 47.3% for his club in the minutes he sat: +6.1, 94th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats moderately (0.39) · 29% keep it
transitiona strength· carries it out; gains the line under control
“He retrieves under pressure, he escapes the first forechecker, and he moves the puck early — which is the specific reason he can play beside Quinn Hughes without both of them going the same way.”
playmakera strength· passes up the shot a scorer takes
“**28 assists in 61 games is a strong rate** and it comes from the first pass.”
clears-the-creasehe lacks it· moves grown men off the front of his net
“He does not clear his crease by force and he does not finish many checks.”
punishinghe lacks it· finishes checks; hurts people legally
“He does not clear his crease by force and he does not finish many checks.”
defends-with-reacha strength· takes the puck before the contact happens
“He defends with his skating and his stick.”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,088 minutes

Expected goals: 53.4%; 81st pct
Shot attempts: 53.4%; 85th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 52 for, 48 against. Expected: 44.2 and 38.5.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

72nd

Numbers

81st

The two rank him within 9 points of one another. 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.

Both bars are percentiles among the 637 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, 2024-25 · 61 games

Top speed: 21.6 mph; 47th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.61 a game
Distance: 3.42 miles a game
Hardest shot: 92.2 mph; 62nd 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.

Usual linemates

2024-25 · 1088 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, 2024-25

The club: VAN took 49.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 53.4% — 4.3 above the club he did it on.
The role: First pair, 1,088 minutes at five-on-five — 74th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Quinn Hughes	55.7%	50.8%	53.1%
Jake DeBrusk	54.2%	53.0%	44.6%
Brock Boeser	52.7%	53.7%	45.1%

55.7% together, 50.8% for him apart and 53.1% for Hughes apart. He was worse away from Hughes, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Hughes did.

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

151 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 5 of them goals. His median goal came from 54 feet. 6% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 73% from beyond forty.