Kiefer Sherwood

Undrafted, 23 goals, and 34 per cent of his shots from beyond 40 feet.

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

2018-19	ANA	50	6	6	12	+1	8	0	0	1	60	10.0	11:22
2019-20	ANA	10	0	1	1	-1	6	0	0	0	17	0.0	13:20
2020-21	COL	16	0	3	3	+2	0	0	0	0	18	0.0	8:48
2021-22	COL	11	1	1	2	+3	0	0	0	1	9	11.1	8:34
2022-23	NSH	32	7	6	13	+4	30	1	0	0	57	12.3	13:36
2023-24	NSH	68	10	17	27	+17	41	0	0	2	110	9.1	12:10
2024-25	VAN	78	19	21	40	-1	35	0	1	6	141	13.5	14:53
2025-26	VAN/SJS	72	23	13	36	-20	50	7	1	3	172	13.4	17:16
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	337	66	68	134	+5	170	8	2	13	584	11.3	13:40

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

23 goals and 13 assists in 72 games — 36 points, minus-20, at 17:16 a night with 7 power-play goals and 50 penalty minutes. His 5-on-5 work was done in Vancouver.

The Finesse Game

A volume shooter from a long way out. 276 unblocked attempts, 22 goals, median 31 feet with 34 per cent from beyond 40 and only 32 per cent from inside 20.

23 goals off that chart is a good return and not an obviously repeatable one.

13 assists in 72 games is the flat truth about the playmaking. 134 points in 337 career games, and he was 28 before he had a full NHL season.

The Physical Game

6 foot even, 194, and the hitting is the identity — he finishes everything, and 50 penalty minutes in a 17-minute role is the receipt.

He forechecks relentlessly and finishes every check, and the speed is what makes it work.

The Intangibles

49.1 per cent of the expected goals, 47th percentile, and 53.9 per cent of the shot attempts, 86th percentile, across 976 minutes in Vancouver.

That is a genuinely good possession season and the minus-20 sits on top of a Vancouver club whose goaltending came in 16 goals worse than its chances.

6 points in his last 10. He is 31, undrafted out of Miami of Ohio, and precisely the sort of forward a club built around 2 very light 20-year-olds needs on the ice in front of them.

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.

perimeter· shoots from the outside, by choice or because he cannot get in
34.8% of his attempts from 40 feet or beyond, 98th 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 · 976 minutes

Expected goals: 49.1%; 47th pct
Shot attempts: 53.9%; 86th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 40 for, 52 against. Expected: 39.0 and 40.4.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

73rd

Numbers

47th

The report ranks him 26 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 — 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 · 72 games

Top speed: 22.6 mph; 69th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 1.44 a game
Distance: 2.71 miles a game
Hardest shot: 95.8 mph; 98th 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, 4 assists, 18 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 with VAN · 564 minutes at five-on-five

Drew O'Connor43%
Evander Kaneoff the roster33%
Aatu Räty28%

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: SJS took 47.4% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 49.1% — 1.7 above the club he did it on.
The role: 976 minutes at five-on-five — 57th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Drew O'Connor	51.9%	48.2%	43.1%
Alexander Wennberg	44.9%	50.4%	47.9%
Filip Hronek	53.2%	48.0%	43.9%

51.9% together, 48.2% for him apart and 43.1% for O'Connor apart. Both were worse apart, so whatever the two of them had together was doing real work.

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

276 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 22 of them goals. His median goal came from 16 feet. 32% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 34% from beyond forty.