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Kevin Fiala

35 goals, 244 shots, and a 57.8 per cent chance share — the best of any forward on the club.

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 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	651	211	277	488	+13	369	58	1	33	1765	11.9	16:34

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

35 goals and 25 assists in 81 games for 60 points, minus-7, on 18:31 a night with 14 on the power play and 244 shots — the most on the club.

57.5 per cent at five-on-five, the 97th percentile. His on-ice goals were 45-42 against an expected 51-37, so the line was outscored relative to the chances by a wide margin despite being the club’s most dominant.

The Finesse Game

The most naturally skilled forward on the roster. The release is quick and disguised, he can beat a defenceman one-on-one from a standing start, and 244 shots is the volume of a man who backs himself.

The distances are the caution — 31 per cent from beyond 40 feet, only a quarter from inside 20 — so a 14.3 per cent rate is doing a lot of work. 14 of his 35 goals came on the power play, which is the number to hold lightly.

The Physical Game

6 feet and 205, and he does not play to it. He does not forecheck with weight, avoids the wall, and gives up possession rather than absorbing contact.

38 penalty minutes over 81 games. The durability has been excellent since arriving here.

The Intangibles

A first-round pick, three organisations, and a career of scoring 30 goals for clubs that are never quite sure they want him.

At 29 the projection is 30 goals and no defensive contribution. On a team built entirely on defending, he is the exception the structure carries — and the 97th-percentile chance share says the structure carries him well.

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
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.

perimeter· shoots from the outside, by choice or because he cannot get in
30.5% of his attempts from 40 feet or beyond, 91st percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
durable· was available
81 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
workhorse· carries the load at even strength
14:21 a game at five-on-five, 91st percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.78) · 58% keep it
forechecks-aggressivelyhe lacks it· first man in, and on the puck
“He does not forecheck with weight”
wins-the-wallhe lacks it· the corners and below the goal line
“avoids the wall”
hard-to-movehe lacks it· cannot be shifted from where he decides to stand
“gives up possession rather than absorbing contact”
defensively-responsiblehe lacks it· comes back; can be trusted with a lead
“At 29 the projection is 30 goals and no defensive contribution.”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,163 minutes

Expected goals: 57.5%; 97th pct
Shot attempts: 56.2%; 94th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 45 for, 42 against. Expected: 50.5 and 37.4.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

66th

Numbers

97th

The numbers rank him 31 points above where the report does. 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. 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 637 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 75 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 · 81 games

Top speed: 22.2 mph; 46th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 1.36 a game
Distance: 2.95 miles a game
Hardest shot: 93.7 mph; 94th 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.

Usual linemates

2024-25 · 1163 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: LAK took 54.0% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 57.5% — 3.5 above the club he did it on.
The role: First line, 1,163 minutes at five-on-five — 82nd percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Alex Laferriere	57.7%	57.2%	54.7%
Quinton Byfield	57.9%	57.2%	55.9%
Phillip Danault	58.6%	56.6%	56.0%

57.7% together, 57.2% for him apart and 54.7% for Laferriere apart. Laferriere was worse away from him while his own share held — the pairing was doing more for Laferriere 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

383 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 37 of them goals. His median goal came from 28 feet. 26% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 31% from beyond forty.