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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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Jared Wright

Los Angeles Kings Right Wing

A rookie sixth-round pick with 23 games, no goals, and an entirely open question in front of him.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2025-26LAK2304404000320.011:26
2026-27 so far—————————————
Career—2304404000320.011:26

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

No goals and 4 assists in 23 games, on 11 and a half minutes a night, with 32 shots on goal. Even on the plus-minus. That is his entire NHL record.

The Finesse Game

32 shots in 23 games is a genuinely encouraging rate for a rookie in a bottom-6 role — it says a player who gets to shooting positions rather than one hiding on the perimeter. None of them went in, which at this sample size means very little either way.

There is not enough evidence to say much more. He moves well, he was trusted with 11 minutes a night as a 23-year-old, and the club kept dressing him.

The Physical Game

6-1 and 178, which is light for the league and the most obvious thing standing between him and a permanent job. He is willing on the forecheck without being able to finish checks that stop anybody.

The Intangibles

A sixth-round pick who made the NHL at all, which most sixth-round picks do not. The organisation gave him a real look rather than a 2-game cup of coffee, and that is worth something.

Everything about him is still to be determined. Ask again in 100 games.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 260 minutes

Expected goals
57.4%
96th pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
50.6%
65th pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 8 for, 7 against. Expected: 11.3 and 8.4.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted
Report
38th
Numbers
96th

The numbers rank him 58 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 — 70 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 · 23 games

Top speed
23.1 mph
88th pct

fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.2

Bursts over 20 mph
5.17 a game

how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes

Distance
1.99 miles a game

skated, all strengths

Hardest shot
88.8 mph
76th pct

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 17 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first

3

points in his last 10 games — 0 goals, 3 assists, 18 shots

Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 260 minutes at five-on-five

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
LAK took 51.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 57.4% — 5.5 above the club he did it on.
The role
260 minutes at five-on-five — 4th percentile in ice time.

With and without

TeammateTogetherHim apartMate apart
Cody Ceci59.5%55.2%48.6%
Brian Dumoulin60.7%54.4%49.0%
Joel Armia56.5%58.0%47.4%

59.5% together, 55.2% for him apart and 48.6% for Ceci 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

38 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 0 of them goals. 55% of his shots came from inside twenty feet.