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Fraser Minten
Boston Bruins Center
21 NHL games at 21, acquired for a defenceman the club could not keep, and the best young centre in the organisation.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-24 | TOR | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0.0 | 11:26 |
| 2024-25 | TOR/BOS | 21 | 3 | 2 | 5 | -5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 24 | 12.5 | 13:02 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 25 | 3 | 2 | 5 | -5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 27 | 11.1 | 12:46 |
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
3 goals and 2 assists in 21 games for 5 points, minus-5, on 13:02 a night between Toronto and Boston.
3 goals on 24 shots is 12.5 per cent in a sample that means nothing. What the 21 games showed is a 21-year-old who could be played 13 minutes a night without the shift being a liability, which at this age is the whole test.
The Finesse Game
A responsible, structured centre rather than a creator. The puck moves quickly and simply, the reads on the breakout are already good, and there is no evidence of the young player’s habit of holding it one beat too long.
The offence is the open question. He was a point-per-game junior and the NHL translation has not started; the shot is ordinary and the hands are good rather than dangerous. A projection of a third-line centre is safe and a second-line one is not yet earned.
The Physical Game
6-2 and 204, and he plays a heavy, honest game already. He wins pucks below the goal line, finishes checks, and takes a defensive-zone draw.
2 penalty minutes in 21 games. Nothing careless, and the frame will carry more.
The Intangibles
A second-round pick, a world-junior captain, and the return in a deadline trade for a defenceman Boston had drafted and developed. That is a substantial thing to be asked to be worth.
On a club with Lindholm at 30 and Zacha at 28 and no centre depth behind them, he arrives at exactly the right time. The realistic timeline is two more seasons.
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.
- a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed
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.
“A responsible, structured centre rather than a creator.”
“He wins pucks below the goal line”
“6-2 and 204, and he plays a heavy, honest game already.”
“takes a defensive-zone draw”
“A second-round pick, a world-junior captain, and the return in a deadline trade for a defenceman Boston had drafted and developed.”
The numbers underneath
Tracked
NHL Edge, 2024-25 · 21 games
- Top speed
- 22.5 mph
- 64th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.24 a game
- Distance
- 2.15 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 81.9 mph
- 28th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.2
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 83.9
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.
Usual linemates
2024-25 with TOR · 166 minutes at five-on-five
- Max Domi29%
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.
Where he shoots from
goal on goal missed
41 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 3 of them goals. His median goal came from 17 feet. 46% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 20% from beyond forty.