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Gavin Brindley
Colorado Avalanche Center #54
5-8, 21 years old, and already holding down an NHL job on a contender.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-24 | CBJ | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 12:20 |
| 2025-26 | COL | 56 | 6 | 7 | 13 | +2 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 62 | 9.7 | 9:33 |
| 2026-27 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 57 | 6 | 7 | 13 | +2 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 62 | 9.7 | 9:36 |
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
6 goals and 13 points in 56 games on 9 and a half minutes a night, plus-2. That is his first NHL season, in the smallest role available, on a team with no need to play him.
The Finesse Game
The skating is the reason he is here. He is genuinely quick, changes direction well, and he forechecks with a speed that creates turnovers a bigger fourth-liner would not.
62 shots in 56 games at 9 minutes a night is an aggressive rate and the most promising thing on his record — a small player who goes to the net rather than living on the perimeter.
The playmaking is real and largely unused in this role.
The Physical Game
5-8 and 173, and it is the entire question. He cannot win a battle against an NHL defenceman, and a heavy forecheck removes him from a puck. He does not avoid contact, which is admirable and does not change the physics.
The Intangibles
A second-round pick out of Michigan who reached the NHL fast, and a body type that the league has been slowly getting friendlier toward.
He needs a top-9 opportunity to show anything, and on this roster there is nowhere to give him one. The tools say he is worth finding a way.
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.
- disciplined· stays out of the box
0.14 penalty minutes a game over 56, 6th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.75) · 35% keep it
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 480 minutes
- Expected goals
- 50.4%
- 58th pct
- Shot attempts
- 53.6%
- 84th 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: 24 for, 18 against. Expected: 19.1 and 18.8.
The eye and the numbers
SightedThe two rank him within 3 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 — 74 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 · 56 games
- Top speed
- 23.2 mph
- 89th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 3.00 a game
- Distance
- 1.65 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 86.3 mph
- 58th 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 83.6
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
2
points in his last 10 games — 1 goals, 1 assists, 12 shots
Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.
Usual linemates
2025-26 · 480 minutes at five-on-five
- Parker Kelly35%
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
- COL took 56.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 50.4% — 6.5 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Fourth line, 480 minutes at five-on-five — 16th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brent Burns | 50.2% | 50.5% | 55.8% |
| Parker Kelly | 55.3% | 47.7% | 56.1% |
| Zakhar Bardakov | 51.2% | 49.9% | 54.7% |
50.2% together, 50.5% for him apart and 55.8% for Burns apart. Burns was better away from him while his own share held, which is a mark against him more 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
91 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 6 of them goals. His median goal came from 13 feet. 48% of his shots came from inside twenty feet.