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Kaedan Korczak
Vegas Golden Knights Defense
No goals in 40 games, a plus-15, and 2 penalty minutes all season.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | VGK | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 16:37 |
| 2022-23 | VGK | 10 | 0 | 2 | 2 | -3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 0.0 | 17:34 |
| 2023-24 | VGK | 26 | 1 | 8 | 9 | +12 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 3.1 | 16:30 |
| 2024-25 | VGK | 40 | 0 | 10 | 10 | +15 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 34 | 0.0 | 15:04 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 77 | 1 | 20 | 21 | +25 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 82 | 1.2 | 15:54 |
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 10 assists in 40 games — 10 points at 15:04 a night, plus-15, on 2 penalty minutes.
53.5 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 87th percentile, across 549 minutes. His ice went 29-14 against an expectation of 21.58-18.75 — nine goals better than expected for and level against, on a third pairing.
The Finesse Game
34 attempts in 40 games at a median of 53 feet with 71 per cent from beyond 40 and none at all from inside 20, and no goals. 1 goal in 77 career NHL games.
10 assists in 40 games is a decent rate for a third-pairing defenceman. The first pass is quick and correct and he does not hold the puck.
The Physical Game
6-3 and 206 and honest. He defends the rush with reach, he clears the front of his own net, and he finishes checks without hurting anybody.
2 penalty minutes in 40 games is close to the lowest rate in this edition. He is essentially never beaten badly enough to have to reach.
The Intangibles
A second-round pick in 2019 and 77 NHL games in across four seasons of moving between here and the American League.
He is 24 and Alex Pietrangelo did not play last season and Nicolas Hague was traded in the summer, which opens a job that has not been available to him before.
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
- a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed
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
0.05 penalty minutes a game over 40, 0th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.75) · 35% keep it
“He defends the rush with reach, he clears the front of his own net, and he finishes checks without hurting anybody.”
“He defends the rush with reach, he clears the front of his own net, and he finishes checks without hurting anybody.”
“**2 penalty minutes in 40 games** is close to the lowest rate in this edition. He is essentially never beaten badly enough to have to reach.”
“The first pass is quick and correct and he does not hold the puck.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 549 minutes
- Expected goals
- 53.5%
- 82nd pct
- Shot attempts
- 49.2%
- 45th 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: 29 for, 14 against. Expected: 21.6 and 18.8.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 57 points above where the report does. 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. 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 637 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 68 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, 2024-25 · 40 games
- Top speed
- 22.1 mph
- 63rd pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.65 a game
- Distance
- 2.18 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 82.8 mph
- 12th 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 89.7
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.
Usual linemates
2024-25 · 549 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, 2024-25
- The club
- VGK took 53.5% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 53.5% — level with the club he did it on.
- The role
- 549 minutes at five-on-five — 19th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brayden McNabb | 60.3% | 44.9% | 53.1% |
| Brett Howden | 46.1% | 56.7% | 52.0% |
| Keegan Kolesar | 39.4% | 59.2% | 52.2% |
60.3% together, 44.9% for him apart and 53.1% for McNabb 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
45 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 0 of them goals. 0% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 71% from beyond forty.