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Lawson Crouse

6-4, 666 games, and 24 goals.

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

2016-17	ARI	72	5	7	12	-20	48	0	1	2	84	5.9	11:53
2017-18	ARI	11	1	0	1	-6	7	0	0	0	13	7.7	10:56
2018-19	ARI	81	11	14	25	+5	67	0	2	1	131	8.4	12:57
2019-20	ARI	66	15	10	25	0	33	0	1	3	109	13.8	13:35
2020-21	ARI	51	4	9	13	-10	46	0	0	0	70	5.7	14:18
2021-22	ARI	65	20	14	34	-9	52	3	1	4	131	15.3	17:26
2022-23	ARI	77	24	21	45	-3	35	6	0	3	151	15.9	17:45
2023-24	ARI	81	23	19	42	-7	36	7	0	2	171	13.5	16:49
2024-25	UTA	81	12	6	18	-4	39	1	0	2	126	9.5	13:44
2025-26	UTA	81	24	20	44	+20	46	1	1	4	141	17.0	16:36
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	666	139	120	259	-34	409	18	6	21	1127	12.3	14:58

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

24 goals and 20 assists in 81 games — 44 points, plus-20, at 16:36 a night with 46 penalty minutes.

His 666th career game.

The Finesse Game

The shot chart is very good for a power forward. 219 unblocked attempts with 48 per cent from inside 20 feet and a median of 20, and 23 goals came out of it.

24 goals is a career high and it came from getting to the same ice more often, not from shooting more.

20 assists in 81 games is the flat truth about the playmaking. 259 points in 666 career games.

The Physical Game

6-4 and 214 pounds, and he plays to every inch of it — he forechecks with real weight, wins the wall, and is difficult to move from the front of the net. 46 penalty minutes.

The skating is adequate for the size and it is what took him from a disappointing 11th overall pick to a useful top-9 winger.

The Intangibles

53.9 per cent of the expected goals, 82nd percentile, and 53.3 per cent of the shot attempts, 82nd, across 1,042 minutes, with the chances 46.7 to 40.0 in his favour.

The goals came out 58-43 his way, 8 better than the chances, on a club whose goaltending finished 6 worse than the shots it faced. That surplus is his line’s finishing rather than his goaltender’s.

6 points in his last 10, 4 of them goals. He is 29, and on a club whose skill players are all under 190 pounds he is one of 2 forwards — with Lee — who can win a physical exchange.

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.

durable· was available
81 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1,042 minutes

Expected goals: 53.9%; 82nd pct
Shot attempts: 53.3%; 83rd pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 58 for, 43 against. Expected: 46.7 and 40.0.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

73rd

Numbers

82nd

The two rank him within 9 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 — 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 · 81 games

Top speed: 22.8 mph; 79th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 1.91 a game
Distance: 2.59 miles a game
Hardest shot: 92.8 mph; 92nd 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 — 4 goals, 2 assists, 20 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 1042 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: UTA took 53.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 53.9% — 0.8 above the club he did it on.
The role: First line, 1,042 minutes at five-on-five — 65th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Mikhail Sergachev	49.6%	56.9%	51.9%
Nick Schmaltz	53.2%	54.3%	56.8%
Clayton Keller	54.5%	53.4%	57.6%

49.6% together, 56.9% for him apart and 51.9% for Sergachev apart. He was better away from Sergachev, who was no worse away from him — the pairing cost him more than it cost Sergachev.

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

219 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 23 of them goals. His median goal came from 19 feet. 48% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 17% from beyond forty.