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| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | CBJ | 9 | 0 | 3 | 3 | +2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0.0 | 12:27 |
| 2022-23 | CBJ | 79 | 16 | 24 | 40 | -19 | 14 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 126 | 12.7 | 14:31 |
| 2023-24 | CBJ | 42 | 6 | 10 | 16 | -2 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 62 | 9.7 | 13:33 |
| 2024-25 | CBJ | 68 | 24 | 33 | 57 | +2 | 16 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 123 | 19.5 | 17:18 |
| 2025-26 | CBJ | 76 | 7 | 15 | 22 | -8 | 20 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 114 | 6.1 | 13:14 |
| 2026-27 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 274 | 53 | 85 | 138 | -25 | 62 | 10 | 1 | 8 | 430 | 12.3 | 14:38 |
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
7 goals and 15 assists in 76 games — 22 points, minus-8, at 13:14 a night.
The Finesse Game
The hands are the reason he went 5th overall and they are genuinely special — he does things with the puck in tight that almost nobody in this book can do, and every so often one of them ends up in a highlight package.
The rest has not followed. 170 unblocked attempts, 12 goals, median 27 feet with 34 per cent inside 20. 15 assists in 76 games from a player whose entire case is creativity.
138 points in 274 career games is a fourth-line rate from a top-5 pick.
The Physical Game
6 foot even and 170 pounds, which is close to the lightest forward in the league, and it is the whole problem. 20 penalty minutes in 76 games. He is removed from pucks routinely, he cannot hold a wall, and he does not get to the ice where his hands would matter.
The Intangibles
48.9 per cent of the expected goals, 45th percentile — the worst of any Columbus forward with regular minutes, on a club that was 7th in the league.
3 points in his last 10.
He is 23 and there is still time, and the honest reading is that 170 pound forward who will not go to the net has one route open to him and has not taken it. The skill was never the question.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 863 minutes
- Expected goals
- 48.9%
- 45th pct
- Shot attempts
- 51.7%
- 72nd 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: 33 for, 38 against. Expected: 35.4 and 37.0.
The eye and the numbers
SightedThe numbers rank him 34 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.
The same player was graded a second time from his biography and his box score alone, with the measured record withheld. That reading lands 22 points from the numbers; this one lands 34. Across the whole control the two distances come out the same, which is worth knowing in both directions: the arithmetic on both sides of the sighted reading did not buy it any accuracy, and it did not cost it any either.
All three 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 — 64 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 · 76 games
- Top speed
- 22.6 mph
- 69th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.92 a game
- Distance
- 2.11 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 83.3 mph
- 40th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.2
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 83.6
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
3
points in his last 10 games — 2 goals, 1 assists, 16 shots
Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.
Usual linemates
2025-26 · 863 minutes at five-on-five
- Sean Monahan56%
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
- CBJ took 51.6% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 48.9% — 2.7 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third line, 863 minutes at five-on-five — 44th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sean Monahan | 51.8% | 44.5% | 52.4% |
| Zach Werenski | 50.3% | 48.0% | 56.1% |
| Ivan Provorov | 47.8% | 49.4% | 51.9% |
51.8% together, 44.5% for him apart and 52.4% for Monahan apart. He was worse away from Monahan, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Monahan did.
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
170 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 12 of them goals. His median goal came from 10 feet. 34% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 19% from beyond forty.