Kevin Fiala

The most naturally skilled forward on the roster, and the one whose season you can never predict in October.

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

2014-15	NSH	1	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	3	0.0	11:25
2015-16	NSH	5	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	11	9.1	13:09
2016-17	NSH	54	11	5	16	+1	18	0	0	1	114	9.7	13:31
2017-18	NSH	80	23	25	48	+20	26	4	0	4	187	12.3	15:09
2018-19	NSH/MIN	83	13	26	39	-23	36	2	0	2	174	7.5	15:38
2019-20	MIN	64	23	31	54	-1	42	9	0	4	175	13.1	15:24
2020-21	MIN	50	20	20	40	-2	43	6	0	5	162	12.3	16:54
2021-22	MIN	82	33	52	85	+23	52	5	1	7	262	12.6	17:39
2022-23	LAK	69	23	49	72	+2	52	7	0	2	208	11.1	17:36
2023-24	LAK	82	29	44	73	+1	62	11	0	2	225	12.9	18:02
2024-25	LAK	81	35	25	60	-7	38	14	0	6	244	14.3	18:31
2025-26	LAK	56	18	22	40	-11	34	4	0	2	147	12.2	19:07
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	707	229	299	528	+2	403	62	1	35	1912	12.0	16:46

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

18 goals and 40 points in 56 games — a very good per-game rate on a season he did not finish. The minus-11 is the second-worst number on the team and is not entirely bad luck.

The Finesse Game

The hands are exceptional. He beats defencemen one-on-one more often than anyone else here, he can shoot in stride off either foot, and the release on the wrist shot is quick enough that goaltenders are beaten from distance several times a year. On the power play he is a genuine threat from the off wing.

What separates the good stretches from the bad ones is decision-making rather than skill. When he is going, he attacks the middle of the ice and the puck moves; when he is not, he tries to beat the same defenceman 3 times in a shift and the play dies on the wall. He has always been a streaky player and there is no sign of that changing.

The Physical Game

6 feet, 205, and he plays lighter than that. He does not forecheck hard, avoids the interior on the defensive side of the puck, and is not going to win a battle he can skate around instead.

The Intangibles

The defensive record is the honest problem. He is a minus player on a team that defends well, which takes some doing, and coaches have moved him up and down the lineup for years trying to find a configuration where the offense outweighs it.

He is 30 this season and remains capable of a 70-point year. He is also capable of a 45-point one, and nobody has yet found the thing that determines which.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 818 minutes

Expected goals: 52.8%; 76th pct
Shot attempts: 53.8%; 86th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 23 for, 26 against. Expected: 34.7 and 31.0.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

73rd

Numbers

76th

The two rank him within 3 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 — 76 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 · 56 games

Top speed: 21.6 mph; 24th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.93 a game
Distance: 2.98 miles a game
Hardest shot: 94.3 mph; 95th 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 — 2 goals, 7 assists, 23 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 818 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: LAK took 51.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 52.8% — 0.9 above the club he did it on.
The role: Third line, 818 minutes at five-on-five — 39th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Quinton Byfield	53.0%	52.6%	52.9%
Brandt Clarke	57.7%	49.7%	53.3%
Joel Edmundson	50.6%	54.1%	49.2%

53.0% together, 52.6% for him apart and 52.9% for Byfield apart. Splitting them up moved neither man. Whatever is driving the share, it is not this pairing.

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

243 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 19 of them goals. His median goal came from 13 feet. 33% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 22% from beyond forty.