Kevin Stenlund

368 games, and the 18th percentile.

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

2018-19	CBJ	4	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	3	0.0	10:58
2019-20	CBJ	32	6	4	10	+2	8	3	0	1	57	10.5	13:59
2020-21	CBJ	32	5	5	10	-4	8	0	0	1	42	11.9	12:32
2021-22	CBJ	3	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	3	0.0	7:32
2022-23	WPG	54	6	3	9	+3	20	0	2	0	63	9.5	11:39
2023-24	FLA	81	11	4	15	-10	62	0	2	3	81	13.6	12:36
2024-25	UTA	82	14	14	28	-6	40	0	1	1	102	13.7	14:21
2025-26	UTA	80	4	14	18	-9	24	0	1	0	66	6.1	14:29
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	368	46	44	90	-24	168	3	6	6	417	11.0	13:19

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

4 goals and 14 assists in 80 games — 18 points, minus-9, at 14:29 a night with 24 penalty minutes.

His 368th career game.

The Finesse Game

112 unblocked attempts, 4 goals, median 27 feet with 31 per cent from inside 20. 90 points in 368 career games.

14 assists in a full season is the honest rate of a fourth-line centre and there is no evidence of more.

The Physical Game

6-3 and 213 pounds, and he uses it properly — faceoffs, penalty kill, forechecking weight. 24 penalty minutes is disciplined.

The skating is heavy and it is the ceiling on the role.

The Intangibles

43.5 per cent of the expected goals, 8th percentile, and 46.7 per cent of the shot attempts, 23rd — the worst figures of any Utah regular — across 894 minutes, with the chances 27.0 for and 35.0 against.

On a club where 9 skaters cleared the 70th percentile, being the one below the twentieth is conspicuous.

The goals came out 20-36 against him regardless — 8 worse than chances that were already 8 to the bad, so the ice and the scoreboard agree for once.

4 points in his last 10, none of them goals. He is 29, won a Stanley Cup in Florida, and is exactly the sort of fourth-line centre a contender carries. Utah is not one yet.

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

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.

durable· was available
80 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
hard-minutes· is started in his own end, against the other club's best
32% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 8th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 894 minutes

Expected goals: 43.5%; 9th pct
Shot attempts: 46.7%; 24th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 20 for, 36 against. Expected: 27.0 and 35.0.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

33rd

Numbers

9th

The report ranks him 24 points above where the numbers do. 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.

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 — 69 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 · 80 games

Top speed: 21.6 mph; 22nd pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.33 a game
Distance: 2.21 miles a game
Hardest shot: 90.6 mph; 86th 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 — 0 goals, 4 assists, 14 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 894 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: UTA took 53.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 43.5% — 9.6 below the club he did it on.
The role: Fourth line, 894 minutes at five-on-five — 47th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Brandon Tanev	42.4%	44.6%	—
John Marino	45.1%	42.6%	57.1%
Liam O'Brien	47.1%	41.4%	—

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

112 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 4 of them goals. His median goal came from 15 feet. 32% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 26% from beyond forty.