Joel Edmundson

6-5, mean about it, and last season the man asked to make a 22-year-old's mistakes disappear.

Season	Team	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	PP	SH	GW	S	S%	TOI

2015-16	STL	67	1	8	9	0	63	0	0	0	90	1.1	14:56
2016-17	STL	69	3	12	15	+11	60	0	0	1	81	3.7	17:46
2017-18	STL	69	7	10	17	-1	57	0	0	0	124	5.7	20:44
2018-19	STL	64	2	9	11	+8	68	0	0	1	102	2.0	19:23
2019-20	CAR	68	7	13	20	+7	72	0	0	0	97	7.2	18:27
2020-21	MTL	55	3	10	13	+28	25	0	0	0	77	3.9	20:03
2021-22	MTL	24	3	3	6	-1	35	0	0	0	32	9.4	19:35
2022-23	MTL	61	2	11	13	-29	58	0	0	0	69	2.9	19:34
2023-24	WSH/TOR	53	1	5	6	-2	23	0	0	0	46	2.2	16:40
2024-25	LAK	73	6	14	20	+25	22	0	0	1	91	6.6	20:35
2025-26	LAK	82	2	21	23	+14	25	0	0	0	104	1.9	18:29
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	685	37	116	153	+60	508	0	0	3	913	4.0	18:43

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

2 goals and 21 points in all 82 games, plus-14 — the second-best mark on the team — on 18 and a half minutes a night. He played 74 percent of his 5-on-5 time with Brandt Clarke.

The Physical Game

The reason he has a job. 6-5 and 220, and he plays the front of his own net like a man defending a doorway: he clears it, he cross-checks, and forwards who set up there pay for the shift. He is strong along the wall and finishes checks on the forecheck without wandering out of position to do it.

He is not a fighter by trade anymore but has never avoided one.

The Finesse Game

Limited and honest about it. 2 goals in a full season is not an accident; he does not shoot, does not carry the puck, and makes the simple first pass or puts it off the glass. 21 assists is high for him and mostly reflects who he was standing next to.

The skating is the weakness. He is a step slow against fast wingers and gets beaten wide, which is the reason he plays on the left side of a pairing with somebody who can recover.

The Intangibles

He has won a Cup, he has been traded a few times, and he has been the veteran chaperone for a young defenceman more than once. That is a real role and he does it without complaint.

33 this season, with a game built on size and willingness rather than speed. That profile can hold for another few years or fall off in one.

What kind of player

The searchable half of the report. The first group is computed from the season's own data; the rest are read out of the prose above, and each one carries the sentence that produced it. A subject the report never raised is simply absent.

measuredcomputed here from the season's own data

Each computed tag also says how well its measure holds up from one season to the next, because a tag describes a season that has finished and a reader will assume it predicts the one coming. Some do and some do not, and the gap is wide: five-on-five workload repeats well, scoring late does not repeat at all.

durable· was available
82 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
sheltered· is started in the attacking end
59% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 92nd percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 47% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1,284 minutes

Expected goals: 49.5%; 50th pct
Shot attempts: 50.8%; 66th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 56 for, 42 against. Expected: 50.3 and 51.4.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

49th

Numbers

50th

The two rank him within 1 points of one another. It was written with these numbers on screen, so the agreement is not corroboration — the arithmetic is on both sides of it.

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 — 72 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 · 82 games

Top speed: 21.5 mph; 45th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.30 a game
Distance: 2.41 miles a game
Hardest shot: 99.1 mph; 94th pct

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

points in his last 10 games — 0 goals, 5 assists, 21 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 1284 minutes at five-on-five

Brandt Clarke78%
Mikey Anderson10%

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 49.5% — 2.4 below the club he did it on.
The role: Second pair, 1,284 minutes at five-on-five — 87th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Brandt Clarke	51.8%	39.3%	61.7%
Adrian Kempe	49.2%	49.7%	49.9%
Anze Kopitar	50.7%	48.9%	50.6%

51.8% together, 39.3% for him apart and 61.7% for Clarke apart. He was the one being carried: the share went with Clarke and did not follow 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

165 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 2 of them goals. His median goal came from 56 feet. 8% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 76% from beyond forty.