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| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009-10 | STL | 7 | 2 | 0 | 2 | +2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 25.0 | 10:49 |
| 2010-11 | MTL | 77 | 7 | 10 | 17 | -4 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 79 | 8.9 | 11:08 |
| 2011-12 | MTL | 79 | 16 | 12 | 28 | -5 | 66 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 129 | 12.4 | 15:19 |
| 2012-13 | MTL | 46 | 8 | 22 | 30 | +8 | 45 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 84 | 9.5 | 14:50 |
| 2013-14 | MTL | 77 | 12 | 14 | 26 | -15 | 68 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 137 | 8.8 | 15:58 |
| 2014-15 | MTL | 77 | 15 | 12 | 27 | -6 | 42 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 150 | 10.0 | 15:30 |
| 2015-16 | MTL | 79 | 13 | 13 | 26 | -13 | 28 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 149 | 8.7 | 15:15 |
| 2016-17 | WSH | 81 | 12 | 13 | 25 | +15 | 36 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 115 | 10.4 | 13:54 |
| 2017-18 | WSH | 81 | 18 | 20 | 38 | -6 | 38 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 161 | 11.2 | 15:18 |
| 2018-19 | WSH | 81 | 13 | 23 | 36 | -1 | 37 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 163 | 8.0 | 16:32 |
| 2019-20 | WSH | 69 | 16 | 23 | 39 | +3 | 48 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 151 | 10.6 | 17:01 |
| 2020-21 | WSH | 44 | 8 | 15 | 23 | -1 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 69 | 11.6 | 16:21 |
| 2021-22 | WSH | 72 | 13 | 18 | 31 | -4 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 116 | 11.2 | 16:07 |
| 2022-23 | WSH/COL | 84 | 10 | 13 | 23 | +3 | 46 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 140 | 7.1 | 14:47 |
| 2023-24 | PIT | 82 | 15 | 16 | 31 | -1 | 32 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 154 | 9.7 | 15:58 |
| 2024-25 | PIT/WSH | 80 | 10 | 12 | 22 | -5 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 104 | 9.6 | 13:18 |
| 2025-26 | OTT | 68 | 5 | 10 | 15 | +5 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 67 | 7.5 | 11:27 |
| 2026-27 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 1184 | 193 | 246 | 439 | -25 | 647 | 17 | 10 | 30 | 1976 | 9.8 | 14:52 |
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
5 goals and 10 assists in 68 games — 15 points, plus-5, at 11:27 a night with 12 penalty minutes. His 5-on-5 work was done in Ottawa. His 1,184th career game.
The Finesse Game
Thin now and correctly placed. 86 unblocked attempts with 49 per cent from inside 20 feet, median 20, and 5 goals.
He goes to the right ice and cannot finish from it any more, which at 37 is the ordinary shape of the decline. 193 goals in 1,184 games is what the career was.
The Physical Game
6-2, 207, and he plays the checking role properly — wins defensive-zone faceoffs, protects pucks on the wall, and takes 12 penalty minutes across a full season.
The skating went years ago and the ice time has fallen with it.
The Intangibles
48.0 per cent of the expected goals, 37th percentile, in 702 minutes — a fourth-line result in fourth-line minutes.
17 seasons, a Stanley Cup in Washington where he scored the goal that won it, and a career built entirely on being useful rather than good.
He is 37 and arrives on a club with Barkov, Bennett and Lundell down the middle, which makes him the fourth centre and the one taking the draws nobody wants. That is a real job and he has done it for a decade.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 702 minutes
- Expected goals
- 48%
- 37th pct
- Shot attempts
- 47.3%
- 29th 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: 29 for, 23 against. Expected: 23.1 and 25.0.
The eye and the numbers
SightedThe two rank him within 4 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 — 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 · 68 games
- Top speed
- 22.3 mph
- 52nd pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.10 a game
- Distance
- 1.82 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 85.7 mph
- 55th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.2
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
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
4
points in his last 10 games — 2 goals, 2 assists, 14 shots
Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.
Usual linemates
2025-26 with OTT · 702 minutes at five-on-five
- Nick Cousins31%
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
- OTT took 54.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 48.0% — 6.9 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Fourth line, 702 minutes at five-on-five — 30th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fabian Zetterlund | 49.7% | 45.8% | 57.6% |
| Tyler Kleven | 47.8% | 48.2% | 57.0% |
| Jordan Spence | 55.6% | 44.8% | 62.2% |
49.7% together, 45.8% for him apart and 57.6% for Zetterlund apart. He was the one being carried: the share went with Zetterlund and did not follow 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
86 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 5 of them goals. His median goal came from 26 feet. 51% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 15% from beyond forty.