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| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-21 | BUF | 38 | 1 | 8 | 9 | -1 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 4.2 | 19:03 |
| 2021-22 | BUF | 73 | 1 | 9 | 10 | -9 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 43 | 2.3 | 18:20 |
| 2022-23 | BUF | 59 | 1 | 8 | 9 | -24 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 3.7 | 14:35 |
| 2023-24 | BUF | 36 | 1 | 7 | 8 | +5 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 6.7 | 14:41 |
| 2024-25 | BUF | 48 | 0 | 7 | 7 | -9 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 0.0 | 14:24 |
| 2025-26 | BUF/WPG | 50 | 2 | 6 | 8 | -9 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 9.1 | 10:52 |
| 2026-27 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 304 | 6 | 45 | 51 | -47 | 60 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 151 | 4.0 | 15:25 |
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
2 goals and 6 assists in 50 games — 8 points, minus-9, at 10:52 a night with 10 penalty minutes. His 5-on-5 work was done in Winnipeg.
The Finesse Game
Minimal. 35 unblocked attempts from a median of 54 feet, 2 goals. 51 points in 304 career games.
The first pass is quick and accurate, which at his size is the only reason an NHL career exists at all.
The Physical Game
5-9 and 177 pounds, one of the smallest defencemen in the league. 10 penalty minutes in 50 games. He cannot clear a crease and he does not try; the defending is stick, angles and anticipation.
The Intangibles
48.1 per cent of the expected goals, 38th percentile, in 528 minutes on a good club — dead average, which for a seventh defenceman his size is a perfectly respectable outcome and, notably, better than 4 of Detroit’s 6 regulars managed.
He is 28, a fourth-round pick, and has made 304 NHL games at 5-9. That is the story on this page, and the numbers are the least interesting part of it.
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
0.20 penalty minutes a game over 50, 9th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.75) · 35% keep it
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 528 minutes
- Expected goals
- 48.1%
- 38th pct
- Shot attempts
- 47.1%
- 28th 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: 21 for, 31 against. Expected: 19.3 and 20.8.
The eye and the numbers
SightedThe numbers rank him 37 points above where the report does. It was written with these numbers on screen and departs from them anyway, which makes the gap a judgment rather than an oversight. 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 656 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, 2025-26 · 50 games
- Top speed
- 22.1 mph
- 67th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.50 a game
- Distance
- 1.59 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 86.3 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 88.9
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.
Recent form
Last 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first
3
points in his last 10 games — 0 goals, 3 assists, 12 shots
Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.
Usual linemates
2025-26 with BUF · 345 minutes at five-on-five
- Owen Power38%
- Zach Metsa25%
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
- WPG took 47.3% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 48.1% — 0.8 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- 528 minutes at five-on-five — 19th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Owen Power | 56.1% | 45.3% | 49.9% |
| Jack Quinn | 43.7% | 49.2% | 51.4% |
| Haydn Fleury | 37.1% | 50.7% | 37.9% |
56.1% together, 45.3% for him apart and 49.9% for Power apart. Both were worse apart, so whatever the two of them had together was doing real work.
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 2025-26, 2 of them goals. His median goal came from 61 feet. 14% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 83% from beyond forty.