Keegan Kolesar

55 penalty minutes, 6 goals, and a Stanley Cup ring.

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

2019-20	VGK	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.0	12:06
2020-21	VGK	44	3	10	13	-4	30	0	0	0	46	6.5	9:33
2021-22	VGK	77	7	17	24	-6	68	1	1	0	94	7.4	12:39
2022-23	VGK	74	8	10	18	+6	68	0	0	0	63	12.7	11:28
2023-24	VGK	79	8	10	18	-8	49	0	1	2	73	11.0	10:52
2024-25	VGK	82	12	18	30	+3	53	0	0	3	88	13.6	13:12
2025-26	VGK	82	6	11	17	-14	55	0	0	0	67	9.0	11:32
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	439	44	76	120	-23	323	1	2	5	432	10.2	11:43

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

6 goals and 11 assists in all 82 games — 17 points, minus-14, at 11:32 a night with 55 penalty minutes. His 5-on-5 work was done in Vegas.

The Finesse Game

Limited and correctly located. 93 unblocked attempts with 45 per cent from inside 20 feet, median 23, and 6 goals. 120 points in 439 career games.

He goes to the net and does the work there. 11 assists is the ceiling.

The Physical Game

6-2 and 216, and the reason he plays. 55 penalty minutes, a willingness to fight, and a forechecking game that is genuinely difficult to handle for a defenceman retrieving a puck.

The Intangibles

47.4 per cent of the expected goals, 32nd percentile, in 909 minutes on a good club — an ordinary fourth-line number.

He is 29, a third-round pick, and has a Cup ring from a club that valued exactly this. Detroit has now added him and Kolesar’s kind of player to a bottom 6 that already had Appleton and Rasmussen in it.

That is a lot of roster spent on men who do not score, on a team that under-finished by 14 goals. The physical game is real. Whether this club needed a third helping of it is the question.

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.

perimeter· shoots from the outside, by choice or because he cannot get in
30.1% of his attempts from 40 feet or beyond, 93rd percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
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 · 909 minutes

Expected goals: 47.4%; 32nd pct
Shot attempts: 49.6%; 53rd pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 23 for, 42 against. Expected: 30.7 and 34.1.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

23rd

Numbers

32nd

The two rank him within 9 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: 22.4 mph; 57th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 1.54 a game
Distance: 1.87 miles a game
Hardest shot: 80.7 mph; 24th 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 — 1 goals, 1 assists, 11 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 with VGK · 894 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: VGK took 53.4% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 47.4% — 6.0 below the club he did it on.
The role: Fourth line, 909 minutes at five-on-five — 49th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Colton Sissons	41.3%	50.5%	55.9%
Kaedan Korczak	49.0%	46.6%	57.2%
Noah Hanifin	49.4%	46.4%	56.2%

41.3% together, 50.5% for him apart and 55.9% for Sissons apart. Both were better apart than together — the pairing was doing neither of them any favours.

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

93 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 6 of them goals. His median goal came from 8 feet. 45% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 30% from beyond forty.