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Logan Cooley

Utah Mammoth Center

65 points at 20 in his second season, on a line that was outchanced.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2023-24ARI82202444-131831215113.315:49
2024-25UTA75254065+14670215815.817:52
2025-26 so far—————————————
Career—1574564109-1264101430914.616:48

This Season So Far

The 2025-26 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

25 goals and 40 assists in 75 games — 65 points at 20, at 17:52 a night, plus-1, with 7 power-play goals on 158 shots, converting at 15.8 per cent.

48.8 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 29th percentile — the worst mark of any regular forward on the club. His ice went 49-40 against an expectation of 39.79-41.70 — ten goals of scoring missing and eleven fewer conceded.

The Finesse Game

158 attempts at a median of 26 feet with 41 per cent from inside 20, converting at 15.8 per cent. He gets to the middle of the ice and the release is quick.

40 assists at 20 is the more advanced half. He handles the puck at speed better than anybody on this roster, he changes direction without losing it, and the passing arrives where a teammate is going rather than where he is.

The Physical Game

6-0 and 191 and still filling out. He goes to the net, he takes contact to hold the puck, and he does not win a wall battle against a defenceman yet.

46 penalty minutes in 75 games is a moderate rate for a 20-year-old learning what he can get away with. He does not avoid contact, which is the more encouraging half of it.

The Intangibles

Third overall in 2022 out of the United States development programme, with a year at Minnesota in between — 157 games and 109 points.

He is 21. On a club that has Keller at 27 and Guenther at 22, he is the one the organisation has decided is the centre.

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.

  • a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed
  • he lacks itraised, and he does not have it

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.

  • net-fronta strength· lives in the blue paint; the screens and the tips

    “He gets to the middle of the ice and the release is quick.”

  • playmakera strength· passes up the shot a scorer takes

    “**40 assists at 20 is the more advanced half.** He handles the puck at speed better than anybody on this roster, he changes direction without losing it, and the passing arrives where a teammate is going rather than where he is.”

  • wins-the-wallhe lacks it· the corners and below the goal line

    “He goes to the net, he takes contact to hold the puck, and he does not win a wall battle against a defenceman yet.”

  • edgesa strength· changes direction at speed; the forechecker commits and he is gone

    “he changes direction without losing it”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 985 minutes

Expected goals
48.8%
43rd pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
49.8%
50th pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 49 for, 40 against. Expected: 39.8 and 41.7.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight
Report
88th
Numbers
43rd

The report ranks him 45 points above where the numbers do. It was written for a back edition, with the seasons that followed already known. Neither the agreement nor the gap says anything about the eye, and this report is excluded from the club-level comparison for the same reason. 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 637 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, 2024-25 · 75 games

Top speed
23.2 mph
91st pct

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

Bursts over 20 mph
2.85 a game

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

Distance
2.83 miles a game

skated, all strengths

Hardest shot
85.1 mph
44th pct

one shot; the league's average best is 83.9

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.

Usual linemates

2024-25 · 985 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, 2024-25

The club
UTA took 53.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 48.8% — 4.4 below the club he did it on.
The role
Second line, 985 minutes at five-on-five — 59th percentile in ice time.

With and without

TeammateTogetherHim apartMate apart
Dylan Guenther47.2%50.8%54.5%
Clayton Keller52.1%45.9%54.5%
Mikhail Sergachev47.8%49.4%53.6%

47.2% together, 50.8% for him apart and 54.5% for Guenther 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

222 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 25 of them goals. His median goal came from 18 feet. 41% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 19% from beyond forty.