This is the 2024-25 edition — an archived read. Read the 2026-27 report →
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-17 | STL | 30 | 5 | 7 | 12 | +5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 20 | 25.0 | 11:47 |
| 2017-18 | STL | 53 | 7 | 6 | 13 | -1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 45 | 15.6 | 12:12 |
| 2018-19 | STL | 80 | 14 | 12 | 26 | -4 | 17 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 60 | 23.3 | 11:31 |
| 2019-20 | STL | 69 | 11 | 15 | 26 | +4 | 23 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 75 | 14.7 | 13:27 |
| 2020-21 | STL | 38 | 5 | 7 | 12 | +5 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 43 | 11.6 | 13:21 |
| 2021-22 | STL | 81 | 26 | 34 | 60 | +4 | 40 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 111 | 23.4 | 16:26 |
| 2022-23 | STL/VGK | 82 | 16 | 29 | 45 | +1 | 42 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 126 | 12.7 | 16:45 |
| 2023-24 | VGK | 82 | 19 | 26 | 45 | +15 | 42 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 122 | 15.6 | 16:07 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 515 | 103 | 136 | 239 | +29 | 176 | 10 | 5 | 13 | 602 | 17.1 | 14:20 |
This Season So Far
The 2024-25 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
82 games, 19 goals and 26 assists for 45 points, 3 on the power play, 42 penalty minutes, 16:07 a night and plus-15, with 3 game-winners. He took 49.9 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,169 minutes, the 52nd percentile, and his ice went 62-45 against an expectation of 51.73-51.98.
Ten goals of finishing above what the chances were worth and seven goals of goaltending above them. Sixty-two goals for in 1,169 minutes is the most of any forward on the club.
The Finesse Game
177 attempts at a median of 20 feet with 49 per cent of them from inside twenty and 9 per cent from beyond forty, 119 of those on goal, converted at 15.6 per cent against a career 17.11 across 602 shots.
103 career goals and 136 assists in 515 games. A career 17.11 per cent is the third-highest rate in this edition among men who have taken five hundred shots; only 9 per cent of his attempts came from beyond forty feet, which is the lowest share on the club.
The Physical Game
He is 6-0 and 203 and took 42 penalty minutes.
176 career penalty minutes in 515 games. He forechecks into people and wins the puck on the wall, and he goes to the front of the net on the power play at a size where that costs something every night.
The Intangibles
Thirty-third overall in 2014 by St. Louis, eight seasons, and Vegas is his second organisation.
A career plus-29 and 5 shorthanded goals in 515 games. He is 28, he played all 82 games for the second time, and 45 points at sixteen minutes a night is the second-highest total of his career.
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
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.
- durable· was available
82 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
“A career 17.11 per cent is the third-highest rate in this edition among men who have taken five hundred shots; only 9 per cent of his attempts came from beyond forty feet, which is the lowest share on the club.”
“He forechecks into people and wins the puck on the wall, and he goes to the front of the net on the power play at a size where that costs something every night.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 1,169 minutes
- Expected goals
- 49.9%
- 52nd pct
- Shot attempts
- 48.1%
- 36th 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: 62 for, 45 against. Expected: 51.7 and 52.0.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe report ranks him 43 points above where the numbers do. 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 652 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 81 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, 2023-24 · 82 games
- Top speed
- 21.8 mph
- 33rd pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.52 a game
- Distance
- 2.60 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 98.9 mph
- 99th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.1
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 84.5
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
2023-24 · 1169 minutes at five-on-five
- Jack Eichel57%
- Nicolas Roy22%
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, 2023-24
- The club
- VGK took 51.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 49.9% — 1.3 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- First line, 1,169 minutes at five-on-five — 80th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jonathan Marchessault | 49.7% | 50.2% | 52.0% |
| Jack Eichel | 52.1% | 46.9% | 57.8% |
| Brayden McNabb | 51.3% | 49.0% | 52.7% |
49.7% together, 50.2% for him apart and 52.0% for Marchessault 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
177 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 19 of them goals. His median goal came from 14 feet. 49% of his shots came from inside twenty feet.