Jeff Malott
Anaheim Ducks Left Wing #39
6-5, 71 career games at 30, and the best on-ice rate on the roster.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | WPG | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 4:06 |
| 2024-25 | LAK | 12 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 0.0 | 10:17 |
| 2025-26 | LAK | 58 | 3 | 6 | 9 | -9 | 55 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 54 | 5.6 | 8:49 |
| 2026-27 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 71 | 3 | 7 | 10 | -10 | 64 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 67 | 4.5 | 8:60 |
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
3 goals and 6 assists in 58 games with 55 penalty minutes, at 8:49 a night — the lightest workload of any regular here. His 5-on-5 minutes were played in Los Angeles.
The Finesse Game
Not the point. 54 shots and 3 goals in 58 games, and the hands are what you would expect from a man who has spent most of his professional life in the American League.
He is a straight-line forechecker. He goes to the puck, arrives heavily, and gives it to somebody who can use it.
The Physical Game
The job. 6-5 and 215, 55 penalty minutes in fourth-line minutes, and he is genuinely difficult to move off a wall.
The Intangibles
Here is the divergence, and it needs the caveat attached rather than buried. In 507 5-on-5 minutes he was on for 55 per cent of the expected goals — 88th percentile — with the goals dead even at 18-25 and the expected goals well ahead at 22.1 to 18.1.
That is a genuinely excellent rate. It is also 500 minutes of fourth-line shifts on a very good team, which is the single easiest way to produce a flattering number. A 30-year-old with 71 career games does not become an impact player on 1 season of it, and the usage was not favourable in the zone he started in: 44.7 per cent of his five-on-five shifts started in the attacking zone, the 23rd percentile.
Take it as evidence that he does not sink a line, which for this role is the whole ask. Ask again in 100 games.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 507 minutes
- Expected goals
- 55%
- 88th pct
- Shot attempts
- 52.9%
- 80th 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: 18 for, 25 against. Expected: 22.1 and 18.1.
The eye and the numbers
SightedThe numbers rank him 87 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 · 58 games
- Top speed
- 22.8 mph
- 77th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.57 a game
- Distance
- 1.48 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 78.8 mph
- 17th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.2
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
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 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first
2
points in his last 10 games — 0 goals, 2 assists, 19 shots
Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.
Usual linemates
2025-26 with LAK · 507 minutes at five-on-five
- Taylor Ward32%
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 55.0% — 3.1 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Fourth line, 507 minutes at five-on-five — 17th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Samuel Helenius | 53.8% | 55.8% | 45.9% |
| Brian Dumoulin | 50.1% | 57.8% | 50.1% |
| Cody Ceci | 55.3% | 54.8% | 48.7% |
53.8% together, 55.8% for him apart and 45.9% for Helenius apart. Helenius was worse away from him while his own share held — the pairing was doing more for Helenius 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
94 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 3 of them goals. His median goal came from 34 feet. 56% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 11% from beyond forty.