Kevin Rooney
Utah Mammoth Center
Undrafted, ten points in 70 games, and a fourth-line centre signed to kill penalties.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-17 | NJD | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.0 | 10:11 |
| 2017-18 | NJD | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0.0 | 11:46 |
| 2018-19 | NJD | 41 | 6 | 4 | 10 | -4 | 15 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 39 | 15.4 | 12:37 |
| 2019-20 | NJD | 49 | 4 | 5 | 9 | +8 | 20 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 59 | 6.8 | 11:44 |
| 2020-21 | NYR | 54 | 8 | 6 | 14 | 0 | 54 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 62 | 12.9 | 12:21 |
| 2021-22 | NYR | 61 | 6 | 6 | 12 | -1 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 71 | 8.5 | 13:51 |
| 2022-23 | CGY | 17 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -2 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 0.0 | 8:52 |
| 2023-24 | CGY | 33 | 3 | 1 | 4 | -4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 11.1 | 11:13 |
| 2024-25 | CGY | 70 | 5 | 5 | 10 | -6 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 54 | 9.3 | 9:25 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 330 | 32 | 28 | 60 | -12 | 134 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 331 | 9.7 | 11:38 |
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
5 goals and 5 assists in 70 games for Calgary — 10 points at 9:25 a night, minus-6, with 14 penalty minutes.
Ten points in 70 games is the whole offensive contribution and it is not the reason he is employed. He was a first-unit penalty killer on a club that finished 23rd on the kill and 9th in goals against.
The Finesse Game
54 attempts and 5 goals in 70 games. 60 points in 330 career NHL games. There is nothing here and there never has been.
He wins the draw that begins the shift, he makes the simple play out of his own end, and he does not turn the puck over. That is the entire skill set and it is a real one.
The Physical Game
6-2 and 190 and honest without being heavy. He forechecks properly, he blocks shots, and he does not initiate much.
14 penalty minutes in 70 games. He does not foul, which is the whole reason a coach trusts him a man short.
The Intangibles
Undrafted, and he went to Providence College and reached the NHL at 23 — 330 games across five organisations, none of them for more than two seasons.
He is 32 and Utah signed him in the summer for the fourth line. It is the least interesting signing in this chapter and the club is 30th on the penalty kill.
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
- a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed
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
30.7% of his attempts from 40 feet or beyond, 92nd percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
“**Undrafted**, and he went to Providence College and reached the NHL at 23 — **330 games** across five organisations, none of them for more than two seasons.”
“He wins the draw that begins the shift, he makes the simple play out of his own end, and he does not turn the puck over.”
“He wins the draw that begins the shift, he makes the simple play out of his own end, and he does not turn the puck over.”
“He forechecks properly, he blocks shots, and he does not initiate much.”
“**14 penalty minutes in 70 games.** He does not foul, which is the whole reason a coach trusts him a man short.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 512 minutes
- Expected goals
- 42.7%
- 8th pct
- Shot attempts
- 46.6%
- 22nd 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: 16 for, 24 against. Expected: 14.0 and 18.8.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 13 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 — 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, 2024-25 · 70 games
- Top speed
- 22.1 mph
- 41st pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.33 a game
- Distance
- 1.68 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 79.5 mph
- 18th 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 83.9
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 with CGY · 512 minutes at five-on-five
- Ryan Lomberg79%
- Adam Klapka20%
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 42.7% — 6.0 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Fourth line, 512 minutes at five-on-five — 18th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ryan Lomberg | 42.8% | 42.2% | 42.1% |
| MacKenzie Weegar | 43.5% | 42.4% | 51.8% |
| Brayden Pachal | 42.9% | 42.6% | 48.3% |
42.8% together, 42.2% for him apart and 42.1% for Lomberg 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
75 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 5 of them goals. His median goal came from 9 feet. 40% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 31% from beyond forty.