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Kevin Bahl
Calgary Flames Defense
6-6 and 230 pounds, 21:23 a night at 25, and the defenceman acquired for Jacob Markstrom.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-21 | NJD | 7 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0.0 | 16:55 |
| 2021-22 | NJD | 17 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -6 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 6.3 | 15:45 |
| 2022-23 | NJD | 42 | 2 | 6 | 8 | +4 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 7.4 | 14:01 |
| 2023-24 | NJD | 82 | 1 | 10 | 11 | +1 | 82 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 63 | 1.6 | 17:24 |
| 2024-25 | CGY | 73 | 3 | 17 | 20 | -6 | 35 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 82 | 3.7 | 21:23 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 221 | 7 | 38 | 45 | -7 | 162 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 193 | 3.6 | 17:56 |
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
3 goals and 17 assists in 73 games for 20 points, minus-6, on 21:23 a night.
47.1 per cent at five-on-five, the 27th percentile, over 1,284 minutes. His on-ice goals were 45-54 against an expected 48-54, so the goaltending covered 11 goals of a season in which he was outchanced.
The Finesse Game
Modest and honest. 82 shots with 77 per cent from beyond 40 feet, and 3 goals; the first pass is safe and the puck leaves quickly.
17 assists at 21 minutes a night is a low return and there is no offensive projection here. He is on the ice to defend and to allow his partner to do the rest.
The Physical Game
6-6 and 230, and he uses every inch. He clears the crease, closes a rush with reach, and is genuinely difficult to get around at the blue line.
35 penalty minutes over 73 games is disciplined for a man this size, and it reflects a defenceman who ends plays with position rather than with his stick.
The Intangibles
A second-round pick, a Devils prospect for five years, and the principal return for a goaltender the club sold at the top of his value.
At 25 the projection is a genuine second-pair defensive defenceman, which on a blue line with Weegar and Andersson — both right shots who want the puck — is a sensible thing to be. The 26th-percentile share needs to move.
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.
- a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed
- he lacks itraised, and he does not have it
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.
“He clears the crease, closes a rush with reach, and is genuinely difficult to get around at the blue line.”
“He clears the crease, closes a rush with reach, and is genuinely difficult to get around at the blue line.”
“He clears the crease, closes a rush with reach, and is genuinely difficult to get around at the blue line.”
“35 penalty minutes over 73 games is disciplined for a man this size, and it reflects a defenceman who ends plays with position rather than with his stick.”
“17 assists at 21 minutes a night is a low return and there is no offensive projection here.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,284 minutes
- Expected goals
- 47.1%
- 27th pct
- Shot attempts
- 49.3%
- 46th 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: 45 for, 54 against. Expected: 47.8 and 53.8.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 9 points of one another. 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.
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 — 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, 2024-25 · 73 games
- Top speed
- 21.4 mph
- 38th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.34 a game
- Distance
- 2.93 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 95.0 mph
- 78th 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 · 1284 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
- CGY took 48.7% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 47.1% — 1.6 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- First pair, 1,284 minutes at five-on-five — 90th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rasmus Andersson | 47.8% | 41.1% | 51.1% |
| Matt Coronato | 47.8% | 46.7% | 52.9% |
| Blake Coleman | 49.8% | 45.5% | 53.2% |
47.8% together, 41.1% for him apart and 51.1% for Andersson apart. He was the one being carried: the share went with Andersson and did not follow 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
133 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 3 of them goals. His median goal came from 48 feet. 6% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 77% from beyond forty.