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2026-27 edition Ask a direct question about this edition of the book — who, how many, how common, which group more — and it is answered with a table computed on this page from the edition’s index: the season line, height and age, the on-ice percentiles, the grades and the traits read out of every report. Ask for a view on named players — what a comparison comes down to, what makes a man — and you get the book’s reading of their own pages, and only those. The model turns your question into a query and phrases the result, or reads the pages it is handed; it never originates a figure, and an answer carrying a figure that is on neither the table nor the pages is withheld. It does not forecast, and it says so when a question is outside what the book holds.

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James Hamblin

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James Hamblin

Anaheim Ducks Left Wing #38

5-10, undrafted, and 31 games without a single penalty minute.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2022-23EDM10000-32000120.08:52
2023-24EDM31213+300001811.17:55
2026-27 so far—————————————
Career—4121302000306.78:09

No games in 2025-26. The season above is the last one he played, and everything on this page should be read with that gap in it.

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.

2023-24

2 goals and 1 assist in 31 games, plus-3, at 7:55 a night. 0 penalty minutes. He has not played an NHL game in the 2 seasons since.

The Finesse Game

18 shots in 31 games. There is not enough here to describe a finesse game and it would be dishonest to invent one; he is a fourth-line forward getting under 8 minutes, and what he does with them is skate, chase, and change.

The skating is the reason he has games at all. He is quick enough to forecheck and quick enough to get back.

The Physical Game

5-10 and 185 pounds in a league that has got taller, and no penalty minutes in 31 games. He is not winning pucks by force and does not try to.

The Intangibles

Not enough 5-on-5 ice time to produce an on-ice rate worth printing, which is itself the report. He is 27, undrafted, 41 career games in, and he is fighting for a thirteenth-forward job against younger men the club has reasons to prefer.

Plus-3 is the only number on the page that went his way. It is not enough to build on.