Jeffrey Viel
Tampa Bay Lightning Left Wing
Undrafted, ninety-nine games, and seventy-nine penalty minutes in forty-five.
| Season | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 45 | 3 | 7 | 10 | -3 | 79 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 62 | 4.8 | 11:55 |
| Career | 99 | 6 | 9 | 15 | -13 | 232 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 109 | 5.5 | 10:00 |
Last Season
Three goals and seven assists in 45 games — 10 points, minus-three, at 11:55 a night with 79 penalty minutes. His five-on-five work was done in Boston.
The Finesse Game
Ninety-seven unblocked attempts, three goals, median 18 feet with 53 per cent from inside twenty — the location is right and almost nothing comes of it.
Fifteen points in 99 career games. Seven assists in 45 games is the honest rate.
The Physical Game
Six foot one, 214, and thick. Seventy-nine penalty minutes in twelve minutes a night is 1.76 per game, the fourth-highest rate of anybody who dressed forty times.
He fights, he forechecks heavily, and he protects teammates. That is the job and he has built a career out of being willing to do it after going undrafted.
The Intangibles
Fifty-three point four per cent of the expected goals, 79th percentile, and 54.1 per cent of the shot attempts, 86th, across 520 minutes in Boston, with the goals 32-26 in his favour.
Those are genuinely good numbers for a fourth-line enforcer and they are the best case anybody has made for him.
He is 29, and joins a club that already has Sabourin for this role. Only one of them dresses.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 520 minutes
- Expected goals
- 53.4%
- 79th pct
- Shot attempts
- 54.1%
- 86th 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: 32 for, 26 against. Expected: 28.1 and 24.5.
The eye and the numbers
The eye and the numbers broadly agree on him.
Recent form
Last 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first
4
points in his last 10 games — 1 goals, 3 assists, 20 shots
Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.
Usual linemates
2025-26 with ANA · 426 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.
Where he shoots from
goal on goal missed
97 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 3 of them goals. His median goal came from 7 feet. 54% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 20% from beyond forty.