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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.
54.2 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 87th percentile, across 549 minutes. His ice went 31-19 against an expectation of 22.48-19.03 — 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.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 549 minutes
- Expected goals
- 54.2%
- 87th pct
- Shot attempts
- 49.4%
- 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: 31 for, 19 against. Expected: 22.5 and 19.0.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 62 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.
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 54.2% — 0.7 above 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 | 61.7% | 44.2% | 52.9% |
| Keegan Kolesar | 43.9% | 58.6% | 53.4% |
| Nicolas Hague | 45.7% | 58.1% | 48.2% |
61.7% together, 44.2% for him apart and 52.9% 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.