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Logan Mailloux

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Logan Mailloux

St. Louis Blues Defense #23

67 games, 48 penalty minutes, and a median shot from 51 feet.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2023-24MTL1011+1000020.021:14
2024-25MTL7224-560001020.016:12
2025-26STL675813-1048001816.216:46
2026-27 so far—————————————
Career—7571118-1454001937.516:46

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 8 assists in 67 games — 13 points, minus-10, at 16:46 a night with 48 penalty minutes. His first full NHL season.

The Finesse Game

118 unblocked attempts from a median of 51 feet, 66 per cent from beyond 40, 5 goals.

18 points in 75 career games. 8 assists in 67 games is thin for a defenceman drafted on the strength of his offence, and the shot has not translated the way Montreal expected when they took him in the first round.

The Physical Game

6-3, 212, and he plays a heavy game — he finishes checks, defends his net front, and is difficult to get around. 48 penalty minutes in 16 minutes a night is a high rate.

The skating is adequate. The defensive reads are still a year or two behind.

The Intangibles

48.2 per cent of the expected goals, 39th percentile, and 48.3 per cent of the shot attempts, 39th, across 1,016 minutes, with the goals 33-48.

Level chance share across 1,000 minutes in a first full season is a good result and the most encouraging thing on this page.

4 points in his last 10, 2 of them goals. He is 23, and this is a third-pair defenceman with a second-pair workload who did not sink. That is the whole finding.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1,016 minutes

Expected goals
48.2%
39th pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
48.3%
39th pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 33 for, 48 against. Expected: 38.4 and 41.2.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted
Report
38th
Numbers
39th

The two rank him within 1 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 — 70 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 · 67 games

Top speed
21.9 mph
60th pct

fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.6

Bursts over 20 mph
0.76 a game

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

Distance
2.49 miles a game

skated, all strengths

Hardest shot
94.9 mph
78th pct

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

4

points in his last 10 games — 2 goals, 2 assists, 21 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 1016 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
STL took 50.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 48.2% — 2.0 below the club he did it on.
The role
Second pair, 1,016 minutes at five-on-five — 61st percentile in ice time.

With and without

TeammateTogetherHim apartMate apart
Cam Fowler46.1%49.9%50.4%
Philip Broberg50.7%46.6%51.9%
Dalibor Dvorsky45.8%49.0%47.4%

46.1% together, 49.9% for him apart and 50.4% for Fowler 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

118 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 5 of them goals. His median goal came from 36 feet. 12% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 66% from beyond forty.