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Joel Farabee

20 goals, and a shot chart drifting the wrong way at exactly the wrong age.

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

2019-20	PHI	52	8	13	21	+6	39	1	0	1	81	9.9	14:06
2020-21	PHI	55	20	18	38	0	28	3	0	1	122	16.4	16:01
2021-22	PHI	63	17	17	34	-11	50	1	1	1	119	14.3	17:35
2022-23	PHI	82	15	24	39	-1	41	0	0	1	145	10.3	17:01
2023-24	PHI	82	22	28	50	-13	37	2	0	2	182	12.1	16:11
2024-25	PHI/CGY	81	11	14	25	-17	34	0	0	1	151	7.3	14:54
2025-26	CGY	82	20	18	38	-9	28	1	4	2	142	14.1	16:55
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	497	113	132	245	-45	257	8	5	9	942	12.0	16:10

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

20 goals and 18 assists in all 82 games — 38 points, minus-9, at 16:55 a night. 142 shots on goal.

The Finesse Game

A quick, skilled winger who has never quite become the player the fourteenth pick implied. 245 career points in 497 games is a second-line rate and he has been on his second organisation for 2 seasons of it.

The shooting is respectable without being sharp: 40 per cent of his unblocked attempts inside 20 feet, median 25. 19 goals from that, which is a fair conversion. He is not the problem on this roster.

The Physical Game

6 foot even and 186 pounds, and it is the ceiling. 28 penalty minutes in 82 games. He does not initiate contact and cannot hold a wall against a top-4 defenceman, so his game depends on getting to open ice — which on a club this poor is not often available.

The Intangibles

The best of a bad set of forward numbers: 48.4 per cent of the expected goals, 41st percentile, and 49.6 per cent of the shot attempts, 53rd, across nearly 1,100 minutes.

7 points in his last 10, 4 of them goals. He is 26, and a 20-goal winger who breaks even on the shot clock is a perfectly good third piece on a good team. Calgary is not one, and that is the entire difficulty with assessing anybody here.

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

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1,094 minutes

Expected goals: 48.4%; 41st pct
Shot attempts: 49.9%; 57th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 40 for, 48 against. Expected: 44.8 and 47.7.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

23rd

Numbers

41st

The two rank him within 18 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 — 67 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: 22.2 mph; 50th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.89 a game
Distance: 2.63 miles a game
Hardest shot: 83.7 mph; 42nd 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 — 4 goals, 3 assists, 21 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 1094 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: CGY took 47.0% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 48.4% — 1.4 above the club he did it on.
The role: Second line, 1,094 minutes at five-on-five — 70th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Nazem Kadri	51.4%	45.3%	50.1%
Yegor Sharangovich	46.5%	49.6%	43.5%
Kevin Bahl	43.5%	51.0%	44.8%

51.4% together, 45.3% for him apart and 50.1% for Kadri apart. He was worse away from Kadri, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Kadri did.

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

196 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 19 of them goals. His median goal came from 13 feet. 40% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 21% from beyond forty.