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2026-27 edition Ask a direct question about this edition of the book — who, how many, how common, which group more — and it is answered with a table computed on this page from the edition’s index: the season line, height and age, the on-ice percentiles, the grades and the traits read out of every report. Ask for a view on named players — what a comparison comes down to, what makes a man — and you get the book’s reading of their own pages, and only those. The model turns your question into a query and phrases the result, or reads the pages it is handed; it never originates a figure, and an answer carrying a figure that is on neither the table nor the pages is withheld. It does not forecast, and it says so when a question is outside what the book holds.

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Landon Slaggert

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Landon Slaggert

Chicago Blackhawks Left Wing #84

2nd percentile in expected goals, and half his shots from the right place.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2023-24CHI16134+14000147.111:16
2024-25CHI33246-723001345.912:18
2025-26CHI53347-216001476.410:33
2026-27 so far—————————————
Career—10261117-843002956.311:14

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

3 goals and 4 assists in 53 games — 7 points, minus-2, at 10:33 a night.

The Finesse Game

The shot chart is the only encouraging thing here: 51 per cent of his unblocked attempts came from inside 20 feet, median 20, and 3 went in from 68 tries.

Getting to that ice and converting nothing is a finishing problem, which is more forgivable than a positioning one and still ends careers. 17 points in 102 games.

The Physical Game

6 foot even, 180, and light for a player whose job is the hard areas. 16 penalty minutes in 53 games. He competes and mostly loses.

The Intangibles

40.7 per cent of the expected goals — 2nd percentile in the league — and 42.7 per cent of the shot attempts, 3rd, across 512 minutes. Those are the worst figures on a team that had the worst figures in hockey.

1 point in his last 10.

He is 24, a third-round pick, and 102 games in. The caveat that has attached to every Chicago page applies here too, and it has a floor: at some point a player has to be better than the 2nd percentile, and a fourth-liner who cannot score does not get many more seasons to find out.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 512 minutes

Expected goals
40.7%
3rd pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
43.1%
5th pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 13 for, 15 against. Expected: 13.9 and 20.3.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted
Report
4th
Numbers
3rd

The two rank him within 1 points of one another. It was written with these numbers on screen, so the agreement is not corroboration — the arithmetic is on both sides of it.

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 — 61 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 · 53 games

Top speed
22.7 mph
72nd pct

fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.2

Bursts over 20 mph
1.96 a game

how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes

Distance
1.79 miles a game

skated, all strengths

Hardest shot
83.0 mph
37th pct

one shot; the league's average best is 83.6

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

1

points in his last 10 games — 0 goals, 1 assists, 13 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 512 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
CHI took 43.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 40.7% — 2.5 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

TeammateTogetherHim apartMate apart
Wyatt Kaiser34.8%44.1%45.2%
Alex Vlasic44.7%38.5%40.5%
Nick Foligno38.7%41.6%51.4%

34.8% together, 44.1% for him apart and 45.2% for Kaiser apart. Both were better apart than together — the pairing was doing neither of them any favours.

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

68 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 3 of them goals. His median goal came from 16 feet. 51% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 13% from beyond forty.