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| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-24 | ARI | 82 | 20 | 24 | 44 | -13 | 18 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 151 | 13.3 | 15:49 |
| 2024-25 | UTA | 75 | 25 | 40 | 65 | +1 | 46 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 158 | 15.8 | 17:52 |
| 2025-26 | UTA | 54 | 24 | 19 | 43 | +3 | 28 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 102 | 23.5 | 17:20 |
| 2026-27 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 211 | 69 | 83 | 152 | -9 | 92 | 16 | 3 | 7 | 411 | 16.8 | 16:56 |
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 19 assists in 54 games — 43 points, plus-3, at 17:20 a night with 6 power-play goals. 28 games missed.
152 points in 211 career games.
He turned 22 in May.
The Finesse Game
The most efficient scorer on the club. 155 unblocked attempts produced 23 goals — a 15 per cent conversion — from a median of 20 feet with 50 per cent from inside 20.
That is exactly the opposite of Guenther’s chart: Cooley scores by getting into the slot rather than by beating goaltenders from range, and it is the more durable of the 2 methods.
19 assists in 54 games is a fair rate and the passing is better than the total suggests.
The Physical Game
6 foot even, 191, and quick rather than strong. 28 penalty minutes.
He gets to the interior on speed and edges. 28 games missed is the concern and it is the second season in 3.
The Intangibles
53.4 per cent of the expected goals, 79th percentile, across 750 minutes, with the goals 42 for and 32 against — the fourth-best margin among Utah’s forwards, sitting on chances of 37.2 to 32.4 in his favour.
The goals ran 5 ahead of those chances, which is finishing and goaltending rather than him.
13 points in his last 10, 7 of them goals. He is 22, the third pick in 2022, and on a club with Keller, Schmaltz and Guenther he is the one with the shot chart that plays in May.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 750 minutes
- Expected goals
- 53.4%
- 79th pct
- Shot attempts
- 51%
- 67th 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: 42 for, 32 against. Expected: 37.2 and 32.4.
The eye and the numbers
SightedThe two rank him within 10 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 — 80 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 · 54 games
- Top speed
- 24.4 mph
- 100th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 3.96 a game
- Distance
- 2.71 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 88.0 mph
- 69th 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
13
points in his last 10 games — 7 goals, 6 assists, 21 shots
Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.
Usual linemates
2025-26 · 750 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 53.4% — 0.3 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third line, 750 minutes at five-on-five — 34th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dylan Guenther | 52.3% | 55.6% | 52.9% |
| JJ Peterka | 49.2% | 56.4% | 55.2% |
| Nate Schmidt | 59.9% | 49.7% | 54.1% |
52.3% together, 55.6% for him apart and 52.9% for Guenther apart. He was better away from Guenther, who was no worse away from him — the pairing cost him more than it cost Guenther.
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
155 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 23 of them goals. His median goal came from 11 feet. 50% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 17% from beyond forty.