Isaiah George
New York Islanders Defense
A fourth-round pick playing 15:39 a night at 21, with 77 per cent of his shots from beyond 40 feet.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | NYI | 33 | 1 | 4 | 5 | -3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 26 | 3.9 | 15:39 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 33 | 1 | 4 | 5 | -3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 26 | 3.9 | 15:39 |
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
33 games in his first NHL action, 1 goal and 4 assists for 5 points at 15:39 a night, on 26 shots at 3.85 per cent. 6 penalty minutes. Minus-3.
A 44.8 per cent chance share across 501 minutes, with on-ice goals of 17-21 against an expected 17.01-20.98 — his line scored three more than the chances warranted and conceded six fewer. For a 21-year-old fourth-round pick handed fifteen minutes a night on a playoff-chasing club, none of that is a bad first look.
The Finesse Game
77 per cent of his shots came from beyond 40 feet at a median of 55, and 9 per cent from inside 20. 26 attempts in 33 games is a defenceman with no offensive brief at all, which is normal for a debut and is the thing to watch.
The skating is good and it is the reason he is here — he retrieves pucks cleanly, escapes a first forechecker, and does not panic making the outlet.
The Physical Game
6-1 and 203 and physically ready in a way that most 21-year-old defencemen are not. He finishes checks, boxes out competently, and does not get pushed off the puck along the wall.
6 penalty minutes in 33 games is exceptional discipline for a first-year defenceman, who is normally the man reaching.
The Intangibles
A fourth-round pick out of London who was in the American League in October and playing top-four minutes by February.
He is 21 and there is nothing to project from 33 games. What is worth recording is that a club fighting for a playoff place gave him fifteen minutes a night and did not lose ground for it, which is not a thing most organisations risk.
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
- 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.
“he retrieves pucks cleanly, escapes a first forechecker, and does not panic making the outlet.”
“He finishes checks, boxes out competently”
“does not get pushed off the puck along the wall”
“6 penalty minutes in 33 games is exceptional discipline for a first-year defenceman, who is normally the man reaching.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 501 minutes
- Expected goals
- 44.8%
- 15th pct
- Shot attempts
- 45.9%
- 17th 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: 17 for, 21 against. Expected: 17.0 and 21.0.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 13 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 — 59 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 · 33 games
- Top speed
- 22.2 mph
- 68th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.67 a game
- Distance
- 2.37 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 87.1 mph
- 29th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.6
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 89.7
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 · 501 minutes at five-on-five
- Ryan Pulock21%
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
- NYI took 49.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 44.8% — 5.1 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- 501 minutes at five-on-five — 17th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Noah Dobson | 46.2% | 44.0% | 55.5% |
| Kyle Palmieri | 47.1% | 43.7% | 48.8% |
| Anders Lee | 56.8% | 39.5% | 52.3% |
46.2% together, 44.0% for him apart and 55.5% for Dobson apart. Dobson 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
35 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 1 of them goals. His median goal came from 40 feet. 9% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 77% from beyond forty.