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| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 | PIT | 56 | 6 | 20 | 26 | +17 | 20 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 61 | 9.8 | 20:15 |
| 2020-21 | PIT | 52 | 3 | 10 | 13 | +5 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 56 | 5.4 | 20:44 |
| 2021-22 | PIT | 81 | 1 | 24 | 25 | +1 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 90 | 1.1 | 20:38 |
| 2022-23 | NJD | 64 | 4 | 14 | 18 | +21 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 67 | 6.0 | 21:04 |
| 2023-24 | NJD | 75 | 4 | 21 | 25 | -6 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 57 | 7.0 | 20:57 |
| 2024-25 | UTA | 35 | 1 | 13 | 14 | +1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 3.3 | 21:10 |
| 2025-26 | UTA | 80 | 4 | 32 | 36 | +42 | 16 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 55 | 7.3 | 20:12 |
| 2026-27 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 443 | 23 | 134 | 157 | +81 | 130 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 416 | 5.5 | 20:41 |
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
4 goals and 32 assists in 80 games — 36 points, plus-42, at 20:12 a night with only 16 penalty minutes.
His 443rd career game.
The Finesse Game
92 unblocked attempts from a median of 52 feet, 4 goals. 23 goals in 443 career games.
32 assists is a genuinely good return and it comes almost entirely from the first pass rather than from anything created in the offensive zone.
The Physical Game
6-1, 200, and he defends by being early — the gap control and the stick are the best parts of the game, and he does not need to finish checks to end plays.
16 penalty minutes across 80 games is among the lowest rates of any defenceman playing 20 minutes a night.
The Intangibles
54.8 per cent of the expected goals, 86th percentile, and 54.4 per cent of the shot attempts, 88th, across 1,441 minutes, with the chances 63.8 to 52.6 in his favour.
The plus-42 is the joint fifth-highest figure in this book, and the goals underneath were 82-50 in his favour.
That is worth sitting with, because it is the rare plus-minus with the work underneath it: 32 of the 42 came at 5-on-5, on chances that were 11 goals to the good, and both are the best figures on the club. It is the clearest example in this edition of why plus-minus should not be read on its own.
6 points in his last 10. He is 29, a 154th overall pick out of Harvard, and one of the most underrated defensive defencemen in the league.
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.
- disciplined· stays out of the box
0.20 penalty minutes a game over 80, 9th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.75) · 35% keep it
- durable· was available
80 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 · 1,441 minutes
- Expected goals
- 54.8%
- 87th pct
- Shot attempts
- 54.4%
- 88th 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: 82 for, 50 against. Expected: 63.8 and 52.6.
The eye and the numbers
SightedThe numbers rank him 26 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 — 74 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 · 80 games
- Top speed
- 22.4 mph
- 79th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.76 a game
- Distance
- 2.65 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 92.1 mph
- 60th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.6
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 88.9
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
6
points in his last 10 games — 0 goals, 6 assists, 8 shots
Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.
Usual linemates
2025-26 · 1441 minutes at five-on-five
- Nate Schmidt69%
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
- UTA took 53.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 54.8% — 1.7 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- First pair, 1,441 minutes at five-on-five — 95th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nate Schmidt | 56.4% | 51.0% | 53.0% |
| Clayton Keller | 57.6% | 53.4% | 56.0% |
| Nick Schmaltz | 56.9% | 53.8% | 54.7% |
56.4% together, 51.0% for him apart and 53.0% for Schmidt apart. Both were worse apart, so whatever the two of them had together was doing real work.
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
92 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 4 of them goals. His median goal came from 43 feet. 14% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 64% from beyond forty.