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| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-24 | MTL | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | -2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0.0 | 22:43 |
| 2024-25 | MTL | 82 | 6 | 60 | 66 | -2 | 34 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 91 | 6.6 | 22:44 |
| 2025-26 | MTL | 82 | 12 | 66 | 78 | +36 | 34 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 124 | 9.7 | 23:46 |
| 2026-27 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 166 | 18 | 128 | 146 | +32 | 68 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 218 | 8.3 | 23:15 |
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
12 goals and 66 assists in all 82 games for 78 points, plus-36, on 23:46 a night — more 5-on-5 ice time than any player on the roster. That is a season almost no defenceman his age has ever had.
The Finesse Game
The skating is not fast so much as impossible to pin. He has the best edges of any defenceman in the league: he escapes forecheckers by turning inside them in a space that does not look big enough, and he does it two or three times a game against players who know it is coming.
The passing is the other elite thing. He does not make the safe first pass; he makes the one that skips a layer of coverage, and he completes it at a rate that suggests it is not a gamble. On the power play he walks the line and manipulates penalty killers the way a forward would.
He shoots rarely and it does not matter — 12 goals arrived anyway, mostly from him sneaking into space nobody was covering.
The Physical Game
162 pounds. He cannot clear a crease, cannot win a wall battle against a grown winger, and gets moved out of the way in front of his own net by anyone who wants the space. There is no argument to be made here; it is simply the cost.
What he does instead is avoid the situations where that matters, using his feet and stick to end plays before contact is available.
The Intangibles
A second-round pick because every team worried about exactly what you can see, and one of the more remarkable young defencemen in the sport regardless. The plus-36 says the defensive side is working so far.
The honest uncertainty is what happens in a playoff series against a heavy team that hunts him. Nobody knows yet, and the answer will define how good this team can be.
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.
- slot-man· shoots from where goals are scored
21.8% of his attempts in the slot, 95th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.69) · 44% keep it
- durable· was available
82 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
- drives-play· the shot clock turns his way while he is out there
55.3% of the expected goals at five-on-five with him on, 46.1% for his club in the minutes he sat: +9.2, 97th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats moderately (0.39) · 29% keep it
- sheltered· is started in the attacking end
59% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 93rd percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 47% keep it
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1,528 minutes
- Expected goals
- 55.3%
- 89th pct
- Shot attempts
- 52.9%
- 80th 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: 92 for, 55 against. Expected: 75.6 and 61.0.
The eye and the numbers
SightedThe numbers rank him 22 points above where the report does. 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 — 75 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 · 82 games
- Top speed
- 23.0 mph
- 92nd pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.72 a game
- Distance
- 3.60 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 90.2 mph
- 49th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.6
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 88.9
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.
Recent form
Last 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first
9
points in his last 10 games — 1 goals, 8 assists, 13 shots
Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.
Usual linemates
2025-26 · 1528 minutes at five-on-five
- Noah Dobson19%
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
- MTL took 49.8% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 55.3% — 5.5 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Second pair, 1,528 minutes at five-on-five — 98th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Juraj Slafkovský | 55.7% | 55.1% | 46.9% |
| Nick Suzuki | 61.3% | 52.4% | 49.0% |
| Jayden Struble | 56.2% | 55.0% | 46.8% |
55.7% together, 55.1% for him apart and 46.9% for Slafkovský apart. Slafkovský was worse away from him while his own share held — the pairing was doing more for Slafkovský than for him.
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
170 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 12 of them goals. His median goal came from 30 feet. 18% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 45% from beyond forty.