This is the 2025-26 edition — an archived read. Read the 2026-27 report →
Jeremy Lauzon
Vegas Golden Knights Defense
Three hundred and fifty-three penalty minutes in 316 games, and 28 of the games last season.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | BOS | 16 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 9.1 | 15:32 |
| 2019-20 | BOS | 19 | 1 | 1 | 2 | +5 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 5.0 | 15:25 |
| 2020-21 | BOS | 41 | 1 | 7 | 8 | +8 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 48 | 2.1 | 18:43 |
| 2021-22 | SEA/NSH | 66 | 2 | 5 | 7 | -6 | 81 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 75 | 2.7 | 17:41 |
| 2022-23 | NSH | 67 | 3 | 9 | 12 | -11 | 66 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 77 | 3.9 | 16:51 |
| 2023-24 | NSH | 79 | 6 | 8 | 14 | -3 | 98 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 103 | 5.8 | 18:37 |
| 2024-25 | NSH | 28 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -4 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 0.0 | 17:58 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 316 | 14 | 31 | 45 | -12 | 353 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 359 | 3.9 | 17:39 |
This Season So Far
The 2025-26 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 1 assist in 28 games for Nashville — 1 point at 17:58 a night, minus-4, with 37 penalty minutes. He missed most of the season to injury.
Twenty-eight games at eighteen minutes a night on a club that finished 31st in goals for. There is no useful reading of the results and the penalty minutes are the point.
The Finesse Game
25 attempts in 28 games and no goals. 45 points in 316 career NHL games is the whole offensive record.
1 assist. The first pass is the safe one off the wall and under a heavy forecheck the exits stop. There is nothing here and there is not meant to be.
The Physical Game
6-3 and 225 and among the hardest-hitting defencemen in the league. He clears the front of his own net by force, he blocks shots, and he fights.
37 penalty minutes in 28 games, and 353 in 316 career games — a rate among the highest in hockey. He crosses the line deliberately and he answers everything.
The Intangibles
A second-round pick of Boston in 2015 and 316 games across four organisations, most recently three seasons in Nashville.
He is 28. Vegas acquired him in the summer with Colton Sissons in the trade that sent Nicolas Hague to Nashville, which is a heavy third-pairing defenceman swapped for a heavier one.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 424 minutes
- Expected goals
- 47.9%
- 30th pct
- Shot attempts
- 49.6%
- 48th 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: 14 for, 21 against. Expected: 15.5 and 16.9.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 17 points of one another. It was written for a back edition, with the seasons that followed already known. Neither the agreement nor the gap says anything about the eye, and this report is excluded from the club-level comparison for the same reason.
Both bars are percentiles among the 637 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 65 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.
Usual linemates
2024-25 with NSH · 424 minutes at five-on-five
- Roman Josi19%
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, 2024-25
- The club
- NSH took 49.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 47.9% — 1.3 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third pair, 424 minutes at five-on-five — 12th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alexandre Carrier | 40.0% | 57.9% | 46.7% |
| Ryan O'Reilly | 46.0% | 48.9% | 49.6% |
| Gustav Nyquist | 42.9% | 50.3% | 51.8% |
40.0% together, 57.9% for him apart and 46.7% for Carrier apart. Both were better apart than together — the pairing was doing neither of them any favours.
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
39 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 0 of them goals. 5% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 82% from beyond forty.