Kailer Yamamoto

5-9, 13 goals from 77 shots, and the 85th percentile.

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

2017-18	EDM	9	0	3	3	-2	2	0	0	0	23	0.0	15:10
2018-19	EDM	17	1	1	2	-6	2	0	0	0	13	7.7	13:04
2019-20	EDM	27	11	15	26	+17	12	2	0	0	44	25.0	17:23
2020-21	EDM	52	8	13	21	+9	26	1	0	0	69	11.6	16:22
2021-22	EDM	81	20	21	41	-1	40	3	1	4	114	17.5	16:52
2022-23	EDM	58	10	15	25	+12	24	0	1	3	97	10.3	16:35
2023-24	SEA	59	8	8	16	-9	18	2	0	2	61	13.1	11:59
2024-25	UTA	12	2	1	3	-1	2	1	0	0	13	15.4	12:07
2025-26	UTA	59	13	10	23	+11	14	0	0	2	60	21.7	11:48
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	374	73	87	160	+30	140	9	2	11	494	14.8	14:51

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

13 goals and 10 assists in 59 games — 23 points, plus-11, at 11:48 a night with only 14 penalty minutes.

160 points in 374 career games.

The Finesse Game

77 unblocked attempts produced 13 goals — a 17 per cent conversion, the highest of any forward on the club — from a median of 21 feet with 48 per cent from inside 20 and only 6 per cent from beyond 40.

That is a remarkable rate off very low volume, and it is not a rate anybody sustains.

10 assists in 59 games is thin. 73 goals in 374 career games is the real level.

The Physical Game

5-9 and 178 pounds, and light. 14 penalty minutes.

He works hard on the forecheck for his size and cannot win the exchanges he starts. He gets to the interior by being quick and by being ignored.

The Intangibles

55.1 per cent of the expected goals, 88th percentile, and 52.7 per cent of the shot attempts, 79th, across 666 minutes, with the goals 36-26 in his favour.

6 points in his last 10, 4 of them goals. He is 27, a 22nd overall pick who Edmonton gave up on at 25, and on a fourth line with Carcone this club has 2 undersized wingers posting some of the best possession numbers on the roster and playing 12 minutes.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 666 minutes

Expected goals: 55.1%; 88th pct
Shot attempts: 52.7%; 80th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 36 for, 26 against. Expected: 27.1 and 22.0.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

38th

Numbers

88th

The numbers rank him 50 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 — 70 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 · 59 games

Top speed: 22.1 mph; 43rd pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 1.17 a game
Distance: 1.88 miles a game
Hardest shot: 86.9 mph; 63rd 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, 2 assists, 20 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 666 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: UTA took 53.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 55.1% — 2.0 above the club he did it on.
The role: 666 minutes at five-on-five — 27th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Ian Cole	56.4%	54.5%	52.1%
Kevin Stenlund	47.8%	58.5%	42.1%
John Marino	57.4%	54.0%	54.4%

56.4% together, 54.5% for him apart and 52.1% for Cole apart. Cole was worse away from him while his own share held — the pairing was doing more for Cole than for 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

77 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 13 of them goals. His median goal came from 13 feet. 49% of his shots came from inside twenty feet.