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Kevin Stenlund
Utah Mammoth Center
Six-foot-three, 14 goals from a fourth line, and a Stanley Cup ring from the summer before.
| 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 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 288 | 42 | 30 | 72 | -15 | 144 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 351 | 12.0 | 12:59 |
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
14 goals and 14 assists in 82 games — 28 points at 14:21 a night, minus-6, with a shorthanded goal and 40 penalty minutes on 102 shots.
51.6 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 68th percentile. His ice went 39-36 against an expectation of 35.25-33.10, which is a fourth line that came out slightly ahead of a fourth-line expectation.
The Finesse Game
102 attempts at a median of 30 feet with 31 per cent from inside 20, converting at 13.7 per cent for a career-high 14 goals.
14 assists in 82 games. There is not much creation; he wins the draw that begins the shift and makes the simple play, and 72 points in 288 NHL games is the honest record.
The Physical Game
6-3 and 213 and he plays a heavy, honest game. He forechecks hard, he wins pucks below the goal line, and he blocks shots.
40 penalty minutes in 82 games is a moderate rate. He is not an agitator; the physicality is structural.
The Intangibles
A second-round pick of Columbus in 2015 out of Sweden, and 288 games and 72 points across four organisations — with a Stanley Cup in Florida in 2024.
He is 29 and Utah signed him in the summer of that year. A fourth-line centre who kills penalties and has won is exactly what a young club buys.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 892 minutes
- Expected goals
- 51.6%
- 68th pct
- Shot attempts
- 49.6%
- 48th 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: 39 for, 36 against. Expected: 35.3 and 33.1.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 19 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 — 72 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.
Usual linemates
2024-25 · 892 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
- UTA took 53.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 51.6% — 1.6 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third line, 892 minutes at five-on-five — 44th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alexander Kerfoot | 55.3% | 47.2% | 54.1% |
| Ian Cole | 49.9% | 52.7% | 54.6% |
| Michael Carcone | 52.4% | 51.1% | 60.6% |
55.3% together, 47.2% for him apart and 54.1% for Kerfoot apart. He was worse away from Kerfoot, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Kerfoot did.
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
146 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 13 of them goals. His median goal came from 27 feet. 31% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 27% from beyond forty.